Flashes of Panic

Plenty of people have pointed out that it may be difficult to predict DNFs purely from split data, given how many unmeasured variables affect the decision to drop out. I nodded to this in my project proposal, saying,

This [potential outcome] is what I think of as a “Tolstoy result”: successful runs are all alike, but unsuccessful races all fail in their own way.

Professor β asked for a citation on that, so it looks like I either drop the joke, or put Anna Karenina in my references.

Somehow the second course sounds like more fun to me.

Now Playing: Ghost of a Girl by Bluerunners