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Nate Silver on Finding a Mentor, Teaching Yourself Statistics, and Not Settling in Your Career

Harvard Business Review

But my experience is all working with baseball data, or learning game theory because you want to be better at poker, right? In Moneyball that on-base percentage is better than batting average looks like ‘OK, well, the goal is to score runs. You’re trying not to make crazy generalizations across too many spheres.

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