Christoph SafferSimulations of the German “DFB-Pokal”: Evaluating Tournament Outcomes with a Stochastic ModelIn the last season 2023/2024 of the German cup in football, the so-called “DFB-Pokal”, a team from the 3rd league, 1. FC Saarbrücken, made…Sep 8Sep 8
Christoph SafferWhy You Should Think (at least) Twice: A Scientific Approach to Decision-MakingThe world bestseller “Thinking, Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman explores two systems of thought:Jan 21Jan 21
Christoph SafferUnveiling the Behavior of Blinds with a Pipeline of Python, Machine Learning, and ReactA year ago, my colleague and I embarked on a fascinating journey to uncover the mysterious behavior of our office blinds. We documented our…Mar 25, 2023Mar 25, 2023
Christoph SafferSetting up an automated daily posting Twitter-Bot in PythonUPDATE: The developer access was widely withdrawn from many accounts since Elon Musk bought Twitter (now “X”). So did it happen to my…Aug 21, 2022Aug 21, 2022
Christoph SafferHow you increase the maximum upload filesize in WordPress within your Apache / PHP configurationRecently, I set up a server backend where I ran into a common problem of WordPress installations: It was surprisingly complicated to change…Jun 26, 2022Jun 26, 2022
Christoph SafferWhy doing the opposite can be highly effective — analogy to non-convex optimizationIn my personal environment, I see many people (including myself) who constantly find themselves captured in their ineffective patterns…May 12, 2022May 12, 2022
Christoph SafferHow you easily scrape websites using PythonIn my last blog post about Hypothesis testing on football players consciously getting yellow cards to be suspended for the next away match…Apr 16, 20222Apr 16, 20222
Christoph SafferHypothesis testing on football players consciously getting yellow cards to be suspended for the…When I recently watched the Saturday afternoon football games of the first German Bundesliga (the highest league in Germany), I noticed…Mar 21, 2022Mar 21, 2022
Christoph SafferBehavior of blinds: A sketch of scientific practiceAt my workplace, my colleague and I were very annoyed by the blinds that went down at least once a day, usually before lunch, although no…Feb 27, 2022Feb 27, 2022