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Nassim Taleb’s case against Nate Silver is bad math
11 mins | Apr 18, 2019
“Intellectual-yet-idiot”, “klueless”, “butthurt" - the insults have taken a turn for the personal as the feud between Nate Silver, founder of FiveThirtyEight, and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, hedge-fund-manager-turned-mathematical-philosopher and author of The Black Swan rage on. Aubrey Clayton proves who's right and who's math is just plain wrong.
