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The headphones that replaced my AirPods
In this week’s Installer: lots of wearables, Star Wars games, and AI gadgets.
This week, I’ve been reading about crime rings and paleontology beefs and the strange language of TikTok, watching Kevin Can F**k Himself and Trap, re-upping my Yousician subscription to get back into the guitar, doing a lot of weird stretches after spraining my finger, and trying to make the famous Levain cookies. But this K-pop competition show, which turns out to actually be about fandom and fame and the internet and in places gets deeply bleak and hard to watch, hooked me immediately, and I’ve been thinking about it nonstop all week. This gives me access to rosters, transactions, standings and free agents/waivers I scrape data from various websites (FantasyPros, Ourlads, Pro Football Reference) directly via Apps Scripts Some site are a bit too complicated to navigate for Apps Scripts, so I use Python to scrape those and create a CSV which I import to Google Sheets Lastly, I use various R libraries (nflreadr, nflfastr, ffanalytics, ffscrapr) to download and manipulate the ridiculous amount of data that they make available.
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