Still tracking calories and it’s still workingWhen I previously left you I was only a couple months into my weight loss “journey” (as the kids call it these days). At that point I was…Mar 25, 2024Mar 25, 2024
The best kept secret for a successful diet plan…counting calories actually works!My weight had crept up during COVID…well, crept would be kind. It was more like a jump scare. I am a 5'6" 47-year old male who has…Sep 24, 2023Sep 24, 2023
Published inTDS ArchiveBayesian Inference of Mock NBA Draft OrderMany of us who follow the NBA Draft closely have a keen desire to know the precise ordering of the Draft, eg where each player will be…Nov 9, 2020Nov 9, 2020
Published inAnalytics VidhyaA Simple Neural Network for In-Game Win Probability Modeling of NCAA Basketball GamesWin probability (WP) is the probability of winning (duh) — given a certain context (or prior knowledge in the parlance of statistics)…Jan 3, 2020Jan 3, 2020
Stochastic Gradient Descent for Coin FlipsHere I’m going to show you in explicit detail how to perform stochastic gradient descent (SGD) for a Bernoulli simulation (eg coin flips)…Dec 12, 2019Dec 12, 2019
2019 NBA Draft Board Tiers 1–3This is not a mock draft. It’s my big board — a ranking of draft-eligible players roughly in the order I estimate their talent…Jun 19, 2019Jun 19, 2019