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Re:Why we should care about the Nate Silver vs. Nassim Taleb... by dllthomas on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @12:19PM (#18708354)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoring_rule#Proper_scoring_ru...
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Re:Why we should care about the Nate Silver vs. Nassim Taleb... by ThrowMeDown01 on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @01:07AM (#18713464)
What on earth does that have to do with anything being discussed? Why do you think posting a random link contributes anything?
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Re:Why we should care about the Nate Silver vs. Nassim Taleb... by dllthomas on Thursday December 20, 2018 @11:45AM (#18726458)
It's a link about how we can assess how good a job someone is doing at making probabilistic predictions. I had (maybe wrongly) assumed the relevance was obvious.
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