Archive - The Curious Polymath

Stats for Spikes-Control Charts

I am sure that I am not the first, nor the last, to want to apply Statistical Process Control analysis to volleyball statistics. Here is my attempt with…

Jul 20 •

Volleyball Coaching Life-Perspicacity

This was an extemporaneous riff connecting one of my favorite words: perspicacity and coaching volleyball. My original article got corrupted in Word…

Jul 1 •

June 2025

Abstraction and Generalization II: Mathematical Abstraction

This is part II or my attempt to create a methodology of abstracting and generalizing. As I said in the preamble. I kind of got confused. But here it…

Jun 23 •

Ruminations/Volleyball Coaching Life-On Father’s Day 2025

Trying to figure out how my unrequited paternal instincts came into being a part of my coaching and teaching life.

Jun 15 •

Reminiscences-June 4, 1989

On the occasion of the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen incidence.

Jun 4 •

May 2025

Volleyball Fan Life-Impact of Foreign Players in Collegiate Competition

Reading a 900 Square Feet email sent me on an exploration of the meaning of our interest in the successes of foreign players playing in our colleges.

May 20 •

Volleyball Coaching Life-Game Coaching (Management)

An off hand discussion sent me down this rabbit. All conjecture and speculation, but I hope it helps someone think about game coaching and the elements…

May 11 •

April 2025

Volleyball Fan Life-House Settlement

I had tried to stay away from the ongoing lawsuit called House Settlement, and to pay former athletes their back pay. But two of my friends explained it…

Apr 12 •

March 2025

Volleyball Coaching Life-What Does Transfer Mean in Learning?

The term transfer has always seem ambiguous when applied to learning and coaching, so I dug in a bit. Welcome to my TedTalk, in written format.

Mar 8 •

February 2025

Abstractions and Generalizations I: Background and Thinking

This is the first part, the motivation and background for my own personal exploration of the abstraction an generalization. Please follow along and…

Feb 20 •

Volleyball Fan Life-Random Thoughts on the Effects of the Transfer Portal and the NIL

Since I don't know much about the nitty gritty details about the Transfer Portal nor the NIL, I wonder about the after effects.

Feb 2 •

January 2025

Volleyball Coaching Life-Assessing Service Quality By Using the Expected Value

I spent some time thinking about the subject of making service errors and its correlation with serving aggressively. Just taking my volleyball brain out…

Jan 14 •

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