Tag Archives: Predictive Modeling

From Bioreactors to Brier Scores: Building Model90, a Football Prediction Engine

By Kemal | July 5, 2026

What happens when a bioreactor engineer points his state-estimation toolkit at football. Model90 is a statistical forecasting engine for the 2026 World Cup and the major leagues, built on Dixon-Coles Poisson, Elo, xG and a calibrated meta-model. An honest look at how it works and what its Brier score really means.

How I Built a Machine Learning Tool to Predict Drug Manufacturing Failures

By Kemal | January 25, 2026

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A bioprocess engineer’s journey into machine learning and why the pharmaceutical industry desperately needs this bridge When I tell people I work in bioprocess engineering, I usually get blank stares. When I explain that I help manufacture proteins in giant tanks for therapeutic use, the response is often: “Oh, like brewing beer?” Not quite. But… Read More: How I Built a Machine Learning Tool to Predict Drug… »