Michael jordan can dunk from behind the three point line anyway. The rim is 10 feet up and he has already peaked in his parabolic arc, so he had to jump that high for it to happen. If we're doing this with this sort of ability i'm making the court bigger and the rim taller," says Michael Jordan. "I'm raising the bar i'm stretching the court"
Can machine learning predict the outcome of basketball games? On this episode of StarTalk: Sports Edition, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Gary O’Reilly, and Chuck Nice talk machine learning with computer scientist and author of The Factor Man, Matt Ginsberg.
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