Ep. 1: Ryan Cooper and BestBikeSplit
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How Best Bikes Split Came to Be
I was working on my PhD in optimization mathematics, and we were trying to come up with a smart scheduler. And so I took a few weeks off work and started crafting this model. It was around trying to predict times for the time trial at the Tour de France. But then when the time trial happened, I think mid-July, I kind of estimated a few of the times. The athletes started coming through, and they were all within a few seconds. So suddenly she was like, whoa, OK, now this is pretty cool. That's awesome. We still have no idea what we can do with it.
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