{"id":15433,"date":"2024-08-07T08:37:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T06:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/07\/on-the-edge-by-nate-silver-review-the-art-of-risk-taking\/"},"modified":"2024-08-07T08:37:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T06:37:18","slug":"on-the-edge-by-nate-silver-review-the-art-of-risk-taking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/07\/on-the-edge-by-nate-silver-review-the-art-of-risk-taking\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Edge by Nate Silver review \u2013 the art of risk-taking"},"content":{"rendered":"

From card sharps to crypto traders, a statistician asks what we can learn from the people prepared to gamble everything<\/p>\n

Nothing is more interesting to poker players and less interesting to everyone else than a breathless recounting of who bet how much with a jack and six of clubs in some game years ago. There\u2019s an awful lot of that kind of thing in this book, which celebrates poker players as paradigmatic citizens of a global intellectual community it calls \u201cthe River\u201d, which also counts among its inhabitants venture capitalists, crypto traders, fashionable philosophers and mild-mannered statisticians.<\/p>\n

One such statistician, Nate Silver himself, came to\u00a0public prominence as a data-driven analyst of political\u00a0polls at his website FiveThirtyEight<\/a>, which predicted the results of US elections in 2008 and 2012 with seemingly uncanny accuracy. But before that he\u00a0was a poker player, making money especially in the\u00a0nascent internet-casino business, until Congress banned online\u00a0poker in 2006. That, he has said, was his\u00a0political\u00a0awakening.<\/p>\n

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\nFrom card sharps to crypto traders, a statistician asks what we can learn from the people prepared to gamble everything
\nNothing is more interesting to poker players and less interesting to everyone else than a breathless recounting of who bet how much with a jack and six of clubs in some game years ago. There\u2019s an awful lot of that kind of thing in this book, which celebrates poker players as paradigmatic citizens of a global intellectual community it calls \u201cthe River\u201d, which also counts among its inhabitants venture capitalists, crypto traders, fashionable philosophers and mild-mannered statisticians.
\nOne such statistician, Nate Silver himself, came to\u00a0public prominence as a data-driven analyst of political\u00a0polls at his website FiveThirtyEight, which predicted the results of US elections in 2008 and 2012 with seemingly uncanny accuracy. But before that he\u00a0was a poker player, making money especially in the\u00a0nascent internet-casino business, until Congress banned online\u00a0poker in 2006. That, he has said, was his\u00a0political\u00a0awakening. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From card sharps to crypto traders, a statistician asks what we can learn from the people prepared to gamble everything Nothing is more interesting to poker players and less interesting to everyone else than a breathless recounting of who bet how much with a jack and six of clubs in some game years ago. There\u2019s …<\/p>\n

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