Tag: nate silver
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Provocative new reads about predictions and probabilities | Tom Cronin
“The Singularity is Nearer When We Merge with AI,” by Ray Kurzweil (Viking) “On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything,” by Nate Silver (Penguin) What happens when you read back-to-back books by a quirky celebrity computer scientist and a quirky celebrity statistician/gambler? You’re tempted to consider bigger and riskier bets, and you ask difficult questions about what…
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The state of the race less than two months out | SONDERMANN
Remember Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, Chris Christie and Asa Hutchinson? It has been quite some time since those Republican contenders, or pretenders, were eliminated. For that matter, remember a fellow named Joe Biden? Though it’s only been six weeks since he withdrew from the race, he and his decision seem well in the…