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Re:Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Ag... by harry8 on Sunday February 26, 2023 @07:32PM (#34951477)
I enjoyed "The Signal and the Noise" I think its focus on the problems of fitting models to noise is something that should be more widely understood and he did that really quite well. It's a while ago but I think it was the massive failures of earthquake predictions was how he did it and it was convincing and readable.

I've never read his blog and care stuff all about his political polling predictions.

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Re:Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Ag... by tharne on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @11:47AM (#34971491)
"The Signal and the Noise" is a great book and it definitely impacted some of the most important choices I made around my career. I think that's part of the reason I'm so annoyed that Nate Silver has gone so far down the punditry rabbit hole.
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