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1. Tani is rapidly moving up the ranks. He's only 10. Presumably the rating difference was much larger just a few months ago.

2. 300 points is still quite a large rating difference.

3. In many disciplines the best practitioners are often not the best coaches. You might speculate that being the very best and most talented would make a worse coach since the struggle to increasing levels was easier.

4. Even Tiger Woods had a coach at his peak.

It counters the author's argument that he smelled something.

This is anecdata. I live in Pittsburgh and have never had a smell issue. I've never had a coworker complain about this to me either. There's a good chance the author could have solved his smell issue by moving down the street to a different neighborhood.

It seems like an island in the tropics would be a poor choice for something like this. Mosquitos and difficult access to mainland services?

Yes, I'd like to see a paint.net for Linux or mac

Just feed the data into an ML algorithm.