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2013 Baseball Predictions – Tom Hummel
http://tomhummel.com/2013/03/31/2013-mlb-predictions
March 31, 2013. There is nothing systematic or scientific about these predictions. I’m shooting from the hip. Seeding: 1. Rays 1. Angels 1. Tigers 1. Athletics 1. Blue Jays. AL WC: Athletics over Blue Jays. ALDS: Athletics over Rays. ALDS: Tigers over Angels. ALCS: Tigers over Athletics. Seeding: 1. Nationals 1. Reds 1. Giants 1. Braves 1. Dodgers. NL WC: Dodgers over Braves. NLDS: Nationals over Dodgers. NLDS: Reds over Giants. NLCS: Nationals over Reds. WS: Nationals over Tigers.
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Using R with MySQL Data – Tom Hummel
http://tomhummel.com/2013/09/13/using-r-with-mysql-data
Using R with MySQL Data. September 13, 2013. I wanted to start visualizing some of the Tetris. Data at hand. So I figured I’d give R. I’m using OSX. Once I got R.app installed, I wanted to install a MySQL/Maria connector to load in my data. In the R terminal I entered. Which popped open a list of mirrors. I chose one in the US, then a list of all packages was displayed. I wanted RMySQL. Into the R terminal. To load RMySQL, type. A quick test of the connection:. Create a dataframe from a sql query:.
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Kart Primer – Tom Hummel
http://tomhummel.com/2011/01/01/mario-kart-primer
January 1, 2011. Our Kart version of choice is Mario Kart: Double Dash! The vast majority of our play is at Baby Park, 9 laps with frantic items. 150cc versus. 9 laps. frantic items. 5 players. 4 active and 1 sitting. 50 total races in blocks of 10. Each player races 40 and sits 10. Draw lots to determine initial sitting order. rotate one seat to right every 10 races. 1st Place = 4 points. 2nd Place = 3 points. 3rd Place = 2 points. 4th Place = 1 points. Despite more recent versions, I feel the double it...
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Super Mario Bros 3 Run – Tom Hummel
http://tomhummel.com/2013/04/03/mario-3-run
Super Mario Bros 3 Run. April 3, 2013. Across two sessions on March 5 and March 9, Nick. And I ran through Super Mario Bros 3. What was done differently this time is we wanted to rate the difficulty of each stage (1 easiest - 10 hardest). Overall the average diffulty on the 90 levels was 3.6 / 10. (I hope there are 90 levels total, i didn’t count). Here are the summaries:. Here are the full level logs:. Discussion, links, and tweets. I am a software developer in Los Angeles.
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Rotisserie Relief Pitching – Tom Hummel
http://tomhummel.com/2013/03/02/rotisserie-relief-pitching
March 2, 2013. Non-closer relief pitchers are consistently the most undervalued players in rotisserie baseball. Year after year I walk away from the draft table with an absolutely stacked bullpen. I did a 12-team mixed mock draft (snake) this morning on Yahoo. 5x5 scoring, roster: 3 OF, 2 UT, no MI/CI, 4 SP, 2 RP, 4 P, 6 BN. So admittedly, this is on the shallower side. I demolished everyone in the endgame. My full round by round mock draft (i took the 12th pick, like a gentleman):. Billy Butler (KC - 1B).
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Tetris Primer – Tom Hummel
http://tomhummel.com/2011/01/01/tetris-primer
January 1, 2011. In 2004, my college roommates and I started playing a multiplayer variation of tetris called The New Tetris for Nintendo 64. For the uninitiated this version of tetris hinges on building monosquares and multisquares. What began as a simple spreadsheet turned into an elaborate spreadsheet and finally into a PHP/MySQL web application. As of December 2013 we had played over 5500 matches accounting for over 380 human hours of official gameplay time. An instance is live. 2-4 players at a time.
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Rotisserie Draft 2014 – Tom Hummel
http://tomhummel.com/2014/03/30/rotisserie-auction-2014
March 30, 2014. Discussion, links, and tweets. I am a software developer in Los Angeles.
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Revisiting the 2014 AL Wild Card Game – Tom Hummel
http://tomhummel.com/2015/04/02/2014-al-wildcard
Revisiting the 2014 AL Wild Card Game. April 2, 2015. I rewatched the 2014 American League Wild Card game over the offseason. Here are some notes from the most heartbreaking baseball game I’ve ever seen. Moss two-run bomb. BOMB. Ron Darling made a good comment. A second-pitch change up from Shields without establishing a fastball. ‘What are you changing up from? As it would play out, the hard tag by Soto at home would kick off a huge storyline. The A’s have a 96% win probability. Doolittle facing Willing...
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Querying Waze Commute Data – Tom Hummel
http://tomhummel.com/2013/11/17/waze-commute-data
Querying Waze Commute Data. November 17, 2013. I noticed on the Waze. Web platform that I could see a listing of my Trips inside the “Edit Map” area. I wrote an npm. For getting a list of these trips and the detailed information about each. In an example script. I looked at my highest measured speeds. Discussion, links, and tweets. I am a software developer in Los Angeles.
