I have been reading Nate Silver’s book The Signal and the Noise, about how hard it is to make predictions even when we have complete data. I tend to be a slow reader so I’ve been reading it for a while.   Finally I got to the chapter on his years as a professional poker player.  […]

My recent post on Lance Armstrong received a high number of pageviews in one week (it’s already my second all time most read post behind Income and Life Expectancy. What does it Tell Us About US) but a low number of comments and a relatively short average visit time.  That suggests to me that while […]