Moneyball Meets the Hardwood: Using Sabermetrics to Predict the 2026 NBA Playoffs
SportsBasketballAnalytics

Moneyball Meets the Hardwood: Using Sabermetrics to Predict the 2026 NBA Playoffs

What if we stopped trusting our gut on the playoffs and let the data do the talking? We built a sabermetrics-style model to predict every 2026 NBA playoff series — and the numbers point to one clear champion.

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Language

English words that are secretly Urdu (and vice versa)

Shampoo, pajamas, bungalow, thug — the loanwords you didn't know were loanwords, and the ones going the other direction too.

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Astro 5's content layer, in practice
WebDevTools

Astro 5's content layer, in practice

Notes from the week I migrated this very site to the new content loader API.

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Kepler → TESS → PLATO: how exoplanet hunting evolved
Astronomy

Kepler → TESS → PLATO: how exoplanet hunting evolved

Three transit missions, three different bets, and what each one was actually designed to find.

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Chronotypes and why your schedule fights you
Health

Chronotypes and why your schedule fights you

Morning people and night owls are real. It's genetic. And the 9-to-5 is tuned for about half the population.

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