1446

LESSWRONG
LW

1445

4

Nate Silver will do an AMA on Reddit on Tuesday

7th Jan 2013

1 min read

4

4

Nate Silver will do an AMA on Reddit on Tuesday

New Comment

8 comments, sorted by

Click to highlight new comments since: Today at 3:03 PM

[-]lukeprog13y220

Somebody should ask him if he was aware of the Less Wrong community when he named chapter 8 of his book "Less and Less and Less Wrong."

[-][anonymous]13y70

Direct the upvote cannons in the direction of this comment.

[-]JoshuaZ13y100

Nate Silver might be the most famous present day Bayesian statistician.

Nate Silver is probably the most famous present day statistician period.

[-]BT_Uytya13y00

Yes, but his Bayesian ideology makes him especially interesting for this community.

[-]RomeoStevens13y00

He doesn't have a movie about him yet.

[-]Desrtopa13y20

Is there some statistician who does who I'm missing a reference to here?

[-]RomeoStevens13y40

Whoever the Moneyball movie is based on.

[-]Vaniver13y70

Bill James. [edit] It looks like Moneyball is primarily about Billy Beane, who wasn't a statistician himself, but a manager who used sabermetrics (pioneered by James and others).

More from BT_Uytya

Curated and popular this week

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/163nqk/nate_silver_is_doing_an_ama_tuesday_at_2_pm/

I'm really excited to see this. Nate Silver might be the most famous present day Bayesian statistician.

UPD: It appears that author of the Reddit post deleted it for some reason. The link still works but it makes sense to post the link to the Nate Silver blog with his original announcement, just in case: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/ask-nate-anything/