Let’s play a simple statistics game. I’m looking at a normal distribution with unit variance (which you can’t see) and I’m going to randomly sample a point from it, which I’ll share with you. You’ll then guess the mean of the distribution. Let’s say the random sample has a value of 6. What would your …
Since I started lifting weights, I’ve found curious the lack of any heuristics to calculate a one rep max based on a particular number of sets and reps. A number of calculations exist for a single set (see below chart from Wikipedia), but as pretty much all programming involves both sets and reps (e.g., bench …
With the recent passing in the Senate of the Sunshine Protection Act, which seeks to move the US to permanent Daylight Savings Time (DST), there’s been wider discussion on the benefits and downsides of changing our clocks twice a year. Marco Rubio, the main sponsor of the bill, provides a list of potential benefits in …