Archives 2017

Analysing The Goat: Data Science and Adventure Running

I stupidly entered The Goat Adventure Race for the first time. This is a 20KM alpine race between Whakapapa and Turoa, at Mt. Ruapehu. While the distance is short, the terrain is difficult and the conditions can be cold, to say the least. As we know, races really start a few months earlier when training ...

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Tightening Up Python

I’ve heard complaints from certain developers that Python is too “scruffy”, and while it’s true that Python’s low barrier to entry allows new coders to quickly write code that runs, but because of its lack of type checking the results at run time might be unexpected causing errors to be revealed too ...

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