Nate Silver will do an AMA on Reddit on Tuesday

2 Post author: BT_Uytya 07 January 2013 09:08AM

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/

Comments (8)

Comment author: lukeprog 07 January 2013 07:10:58PM 15 points [-]

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."

Comment author: [deleted] 08 January 2013 10:35:59PM *  6 points [-]

Direct the upvote cannons in the direction of this comment.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 07 January 2013 06:48:33PM 7 points [-]

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

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

Comment author: BT_Uytya 08 January 2013 11:03:20AM 0 points [-]

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

Comment author: RomeoStevens 07 January 2013 11:37:22PM 0 points [-]

He doesn't have a movie about him yet.

Comment author: Desrtopa 08 January 2013 12:50:11AM 1 point [-]

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

Comment author: RomeoStevens 08 January 2013 12:52:17AM 3 points [-]

Whoever the Moneyball movie is based on.

Comment author: Vaniver 08 January 2013 04:30:38AM *  4 points [-]

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).