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		ikeboy on April 9, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nassim Talebs case against Nate Silver is bad math Yeah well there's a difference if you're estimating a parameter or predicting true/false on an event.

et2o on April 9, 2019 [–]

Not sure about that, think about the case of (Bayesian) logistic regression.

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