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Christoph Saffer

Simulations of the German “DFB-Pokal”: Evaluating Tournament Outcomes with a Stochastic Model

In 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 8

Simulations of the German “DFB-Pokal”: Evaluating Tournament Outcomes with a Stochastic Model

Sep 8

Christoph Saffer

Why You Should Think (at least) Twice: A Scientific Approach to Decision-Making

The world bestseller “Thinking, Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman explores two systems of thought:

Jan 21

Why You Should Think (at least) Twice: A Scientific Approach to Decision-Making

Jan 21

Christoph Saffer

Unveiling the Behavior of Blinds with a Pipeline of Python, Machine Learning, and React

A 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, 2023

Unveiling the Behavior of Blinds with a Pipeline of Python, Machine Learning, and React

Mar 25, 2023

Christoph Saffer

Setting up an automated daily posting Twitter-Bot in Python

UPDATE: The developer access was widely withdrawn from many accounts since Elon Musk bought Twitter (now “X”). So did it happen to my…

Aug 21, 2022

Setting up an automated daily posting Twitter-Bot in Python

Aug 21, 2022

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How you increase the maximum upload filesize in WordPress within your Apache / PHP configuration

Recently, I set up a server backend where I ran into a common problem of WordPress installations: It was surprisingly complicated to change…

Jun 26, 2022

How you increase the maximum upload filesize in WordPress within your Apache / PHP configuration

Jun 26, 2022

Christoph Saffer

Why doing the opposite can be highly effective — analogy to non-convex optimization

In my personal environment, I see many people (including myself) who constantly find themselves captured in their ineffective patterns…

May 12, 2022

Why doing the opposite can be highly effective — analogy to non-convex optimization

May 12, 2022

Christoph Saffer

How you easily scrape websites using Python

In my last blog post about Hypothesis testing on football players consciously getting yellow cards to be suspended for the next away match…

Apr 16, 2022

How you easily scrape websites using Python

Apr 16, 2022

Christoph Saffer

Hypothesis 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, 2022

Hypothesis testing on football players consciously getting yellow cards to be suspended for the…

Mar 21, 2022

Christoph Saffer

Behavior of blinds: A sketch of scientific practice

At 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, 2022

Behavior of blinds: A sketch of scientific practice

Feb 27, 2022

Christoph Saffer

Christoph Saffer

A passionate for applied mathematics with penchant for modeling and statistics | Writing about data science regularly | Postdoctoral researcher at Leibniz-HKI

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