Matt Dennewitz

Using Polars to find pitcher velocity drops

While looking at a fantasy baseball trade involving Freddy Peralta, I caught this X post about a potential drop in his velocity against the Chicago White Sox on April 29, 2025: I used Polars to explore by loading Baseball Savant data the following morning, and building a concise pipeline that

Preparing, fixing, and loading samples for Intellijel Multigrain

Intellijel’s Multigrain is a fantastic module for granular synthesis. However, as of firmware v1.1.0.0, loading custom WAV files can be frustrating. Some files — even when they seem correctly formatted — won't load. After troubleshooting, I discovered the issue was due to subtle structural problems in