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Tauhid Zaman knows picking a perfect NCAA Tournament bracket is statistically impossible — or close to it. Zaman’s goals are only slightly more realistic. The MIT professor and algorithmic sports ...

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Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. David is comprehensively experienced in many facets of financial and legal research and ...