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Avant l'ouverture des Jeux Olympiques : prédictions statistiques sur les limites des performances humaines http://t.co/nwxaD5GW #ob
July 27, 2012
Universal Laws at the Olympics and Predictions for 2012
There's been a lot of work into mathematically understanding human performance, especially record-setting human performances. The reason this is interesting is because the limits of human performance involves sampling from the very tail of a distribution, in this case, the most athletic human beings on the planet.