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Matt Sayar February 12, 2025

Where are the best restaurants in my city? A statistical analysis

Everyone wants to know the best places to eat, but the "best place" is inherently subjective. Sure you can read the multitude of "Best Restaurants in Town" lists (which are usually pretty good!), but I wanted to use data to answer the question: "What are…

Matt Sayar February 3, 2025

Building games with LLMs to help my kid learn math

I used ChatGPT to help my kid learn Left from Right, and now I'm turning LLMs into math teachers. I made this game to help him understand the magnitude of numbers between 0 and 20: Then I made the following game with Claude and its…

Matt Sayar January 27, 2025

Why is AI slop so easy to spot but hard to detect?

Recently, my employer posted a story to LinkedIn about our Copilot product. It was a typical release announcement about new features and a link to the company blog. Shortly after posting, I received a Slack message from our Marketing team: "Hey Matt, can you please…

Matt Sayar January 21, 2025

How much does the "new BMI" say you should weigh?

This tool uses the "new BMI" from an Oxford guy whose provided calculator needed some TLC. I don't really care what my BMI is, I just want to know the range of weights for my height. Weirdly challenging to find that easily online. And now…

Matt Sayar January 10, 2025

How well do you know the NFL teams?

Do you know which division each of the 32 NFL teams are in? See below to try to beat my best score of 88 seconds!