# tackle (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover tackle. Page: Feed: --- ## [March Madness 2026 First Round Projections](https://johnbedwards.io/blog/march_madness_2026_round_one/) _2026-03-19 · John Edwards_ Introduction and methodology Last year I released my initial batch of March Madness projections for 2025! I tend to be decently good at the Kaggle competition for March Madness at least, and other people found them useful as well. While I am releasing these a bit late for anyone to really bake them into a bracket (blame a hectic spring training), I did want to share my predictions for the upcoming… ## [March Madness 2025 First Round Projections](https://johnbedwards.io/blog/march_madness_2025_round_one/) _2025-03-17 · John Edwards_ Introduction and methodology Following up on my Kaggle March Mania top 40 finish from last year (in addition to my top 30 finish from 2021), I’m excited to share my Mach Madness projections for this year! I want to get a bit more granular this year and be able to share some individual game projections as well, as an exercise in preparing these kinds of visuals (not to mention the social… ## [What I learned from running 26 miles](https://johnbedwards.io/blog/marathon_training/) _2025-01-12 · John Edwards_ Introduction I sent out an open request a few weeks ago for potential blog post topics. I expected a lot of requests for technical or sports stuff, but I also got some requests about stuff I did in my personal life—specifically, An Nguyen requested to hear about my experience training for a marathon! marathon training — An Nguyen (@nguyenank.bsky.social) November 19, 2024 at 10:59 AM After… ## [2024 Advent of Code Week 4](https://johnbedwards.io/blog/aoc_2024_week_four/) _2024-12-31 · John Edwards_ Introduction The Advent of Code (AOC) is a series of programming problems that are released daily from December 1st to December 25th, each problem more challenging than the last. As a means of practicing my Julia skills, I decided to try to tackle the AOC this year using just Julia! You can view my solutions to each week at these links: week one, week two, and week three. Let’s finish strong… ## [2024 Advent of Code Week 3](https://johnbedwards.io/blog/aoc_2024_week_three/) _2024-12-30 · John Edwards_ Introduction The Advent of Code (AOC) is a series of programming problems that are released daily from December 1st to December 25th, each problem more challenging than the last. As a means of practicing my Julia skills, I decided to try to tackle the AOC this year using just Julia! If you’d like to see my work in completing the first week of AOC problems, click here, and if you’d like… ## [2024 Advent of Code Week 2](https://johnbedwards.io/blog/aoc_2024_week_two/) _2024-12-14 · John Edwards_ Introduction The Advent of Code (AOC) is a series of programming problems that are released daily from December 1st to December 25th, each problem more challenging than the last. As a means of practicing my Julia skills, I decided to try to tackle the AOC this year using just Julia! If you’d like to see my work in completing the first week of AOC problems, click here. Let’s dive in! ## [2024 Advent of Code Week 1](https://johnbedwards.io/blog/aoc_2024_week_one/) _2024-12-07 · John Edwards_ Introduction The Advent of Code (AOC) is a series of programming problems that are released daily from December 1st to December 25th, each problem more challenging than the last. As a means of practicing my Julia skills, I decided to try to tackle the AOC this year using just Julia! This is my write-up of the first week of AOC problems that I completed–as these problems progressively get… ## [Predicting the Olympics](https://johnbedwards.io/blog/olympic_prediction_contest/) _2024-11-18 · John Edwards_ Stade de France; Chabe01, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons I had the pleasure of competing in the Royal Statistical Society’s 2024 Olympics prediction contest. I also had the pleasure of winning! While I feel that my code is too messy to share at present and I lack the motivation to clean it up for public consumption, I did want to discuss at a high level my approach and lessons learned…