Yesterday, I wrote about my Man v Model. The most interesting thing was running the results through Claude to see if it could identify the reasons why. Here are some of the highlights:

The World Cup is over. Spain were deserved winners, Argentina were embarrassed for the 120 minutes of the final, and even more so in the 120 seconds afterwards. As I wrote about HERE, I have been running my own mini-tournament, competing again Nate Silver’s Model and the aggregated betting odds. Here is how we finished:…

The past few weeks haven’t been the healthiest. My sister was in town, we had Fourth of July, and then this past weekend we were away in the mountains for a long weekend. All this is great fun, but lends itself to more eating, drinking, snacking, etcetera. With the next four or so weeks much…

Of the 100+ games that make up the World Cup, the most forgettable game is usually the third place play-off. Two teams that would much rather forget a harrowing semi-final loss by getting slizzard in an Ibiza club. Instead, you have to spend another week prepping for an essentially meaningless game. Grim. This year was…

We’re on our roadtrip back to Denver, after spending two night in Crested Butte. For those unfamiliar with the terrain, here is the map. Fairly close right? Especially as Aspen is less than two hours from Denver. Wrong. Mountains are a hell of an obstacle, and thus CB is 4.5 hours from our place. The…

We drove out to Crested Butte, our favourite mountain town, to catch the wild flowers and see friends. It’s one of our favourite places in the world. The only issue is that it includes 4 hours of travel through windy mountain passes, and even those with the sturdiest of constitutions can find it taxing. For…