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  • Want to Be the Next Nate Silver? That’ll Cost You $60,000

    Want to Be the Next Nate Silver? That’ll Cost You $60,000 | Wired Business | Wired.com. Related articles Nate Silvers talk: A summary of his points (statsinthewild.com) Nate Silver Shockingly Leaves the New York Times for ESPN (and Keith Olbermann) (theatlanticwire.com) Nate Silver: The Model for Tomorrow’s Musical Acts (variety.com)

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  • Steve Jobs, Pablo Picasso, Nate Silver: why the most creative people are generalists

    Steve Jobs, Nate Silver, And Pablo Picasso: Why The Most Creative People Are Generalists By: Drake Baer, fastcompany.com The compelling case for why a breadth of knowledge and a depth of expertise spur innovation. In the sum­mer of 1982 a 27-year-old Steve Jobs accept­ed an award at the Acad­e­my of Achieve­ment. Dur­ing his brief speech,…

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  • Why conservatives ignored the data

    10 right-wingers who got the election hilariously wrong – Salon.com By AlterNet Staff„ salon.com So much for hunches and gut instincts. Maybe in 2016, these would-be pollsters will read Nate Silver like adults We real­ly had a con­test between the reality-based com­mu­ni­ty, and a con­ser­v­a­tive move­ment that had con­vinced itself that… RT @Salon: On Monday,…

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  • Evolution is a thing

    (via Evolution is a thing – The Maddow Blog) Ohio really did go to the president last night. And he really did win. And he really was born in Hawaii. And he really is -legitimately- President of the United States. Again. And the Bureau of Labor Statistics did not make-up a fake unemployment rate last…

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