Thursday September 4, 2008
Every year around this time I get to enjoy one of my all-time favorite acronyms. (You know I’m an acronymphomaniac, right?) All of the important data utilized by the National Football League is stored in the “Game Statistics & Information System” — GSIS. As far as the NFL is concerned, GSIS is awesome and GSIS [...]
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acronyms,
comedy,
NFL,
sports,
statistics,
technology
I am not even 100 pages into my latest William Poundstone book and I already know it’s going to be a favorite. Fortune’s Formula, The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street is the fourth Poundstone book I’ve read. The man is a genius of a writer. Labyrinths [...]
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books,
communication,
game theory,
logic,
statistics,
William Poundstone
I’ve often wondered how Alexa manages to get its data. Their stats never seem to synch with mine. It turns out there’s a fly in the ointment over there.
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metrics,
ranking,
SEO,
statistics,
traffic,
visitors
Thursday November 8, 2001
Wednesday August 15, 2001
How incredible is this? I just reached into a 14 oz bag of M&M’s without looking and grabbed five green ones. Five. All the same color. Crazy.
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candy,
food,
statistics