Sports & GM6 min read
Understanding Probability in Sports Simulations
Why a better roster still loses, how season length compounds small edges, and how many runs you actually need before a simulated result means anything.
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- Utilities12 min read
Video Codecs Explained: Compression, Bitrate, Bit Depth and Why Newer Is Not Always Better
How video compression works, what bitrate and bit depth actually control, and why a newer codec means a smaller file and less certain support.
- Utilities10 min read
Video File Formats Explained: What Is Actually Inside an MP4, MKV or MOV
What a container really stores, how MP4, MKV, MOV and transport streams differ, and why remuxing fixes problems that re-encoding should not.
- Languages4 min read
The Vietnamese Alphabet Explained
Chữ Quốc ngữ from the outside in: which letters exist, what the vowel marks do, why đ is a separate letter, and why typing it needs a special input method.
- Languages4 min read
Vietnamese Pronouns Explained
Why Vietnamese has no neutral 'I' or 'you', how kinship terms became the pronoun system, and how a beginner can navigate it without causing offence.
- Languages3 min read
Vietnamese Tones Explained
The six tones of standard Vietnamese, the diacritics that mark them, why northern and southern varieties differ, and how to practise them without a teacher.
- Action & Arcade9 min read
Wave Survival Design: Why the Gap Between Waves Matters More Than the Wave
How wave survival games build tension: escalation curves, spawn placement, the pause between waves, and why more enemies is the weakest lever.
- Health8 min read
What Is a Ketone Reading? What the Number Represents, and What It Cannot Tell You
What ketones are, what blood, urine and breath tests each measure, and why published sources are explicit that a reading is not a self-diagnostic tool.
- Languages4 min read
What Is a Tonal Language?
How tone distinguishes words, why English speakers find it hard, what tone is not, and a practical way to train tonal perception before production.
- Sports & GM4 min read
What Is ERA in Baseball, and What Does It Miss?
How earned run average is calculated, what counts as an earned run, why ERA flatters some pitchers, and how to read it in a simulated season.
- Sports & GM4 min read
What Is Icing in Hockey?
Icing explained: the red-line rule, touch versus automatic variants, the exceptions, and why the consequence matters more than the whistle.
- Sports & GM3 min read
What Is WHIP in Baseball, and Why Does It Matter?
Walks and hits per inning pitched: how WHIP is calculated, what it captures that ERA misses, and what it deliberately ignores.
- Sports & GM7 min read
What Makes a Good Draft Board
A draft board is a decision tool, not a ranked list. How to build one from tiers, cliffs and roster structure, and how to run it without abandoning it.
- Action & Arcade9 min read
What Makes a Roguelike? The Definition, the Argument, and a Test That Settles It
Rogue, the Berlin Interpretation and the roguelite split: what the word means, why the definition is contested, and a test that settles it.
- Health4 min read
Why Food Databases Disagree With Each Other
Label tolerances, crowd-sourced entries, natural variation and preparation differences — why the same food shows different numbers in different apps.
- Action & Arcade4 min read
Why Free Android Games Show Ads
How free apps are funded, what the different ad formats cost you in attention and data, and what Google Play's policies require of developers.
- Anime & Creative4 min read
Word Game Strategy: Letter Frequency and Constraint
Why letter frequency, vowel placement and word length constrain the answer space, and how to search a word puzzle systematically instead of hoping.
- Education10 min read
What Is Working Memory, and Can Training Actually Change It?
What working memory is, how small its capacity really is, and an honest account of why researchers still disagree about whether training transfers to anything.
- Anime & Creative9 min read
Anime Genres Explained: Why Shōnen Is Not a Genre and Isekai Is
Shōnen and seinen are publishing demographics, not genres. What isekai, mecha and slice of life describe, and why one show carries several labels.
- Sports & GM7 min read
Baseball Stats Explained for Beginners
ERA, WHIP, OBP, slugging, fielding percentage and WAR, each with the formula and a worked example, plus what every one of them fails to tell you.
- Sports & GM7 min read
Basketball Positions Explained: What the Five Numbers Mean
What a point guard, shooting guard, small forward, power forward and centre each do, why the rulebook never mentions any of them, and what position means today.
- Sports & GM7 min read
How Boxing Scoring Works: The 10-Point Must System, Round by Round
What the 10-point must system means, when a round is 10-9 or 10-8, the four factors judges are told to weigh, and how three scorecards become a result.
- Action & Arcade8 min read
Bullet Hell vs Classic Shmup: Two Genres That Look Identical and Test Opposite Skills
Bullet hell and classic shoot 'em ups look alike and reward opposite instincts. Hitboxes, bullet speed, and why density is not difficulty.
- Anime & Creative9 min read
Color Theory for Beginners: The Part That Actually Changes Your Pictures
Hue, value and saturation, why light and paint mix differently, and the colour schemes that work — without the art-school vocabulary.