Nate Silver Joins Rufus and Jeff and Preview the SSAC

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4 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This week on Bet the Process, Jeff and Rufus interview statistician, writer, and poker player Nate Silver, who shares his thoughts on the uniqueness of political forecasting, criticisms of sports betting, and the skills necessary to succeed in high-stakes poker games.

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0:00.0	on this week's episode of Bet the Process, which is very much poor to our ethos of not actually
0:08.9	really ever trying to make money. We have one of our biggest guests we've ever had on,
0:12.9	Nate Silver, yet we're not sponsored this episode. So if you want to sponsor this episode,
0:17.9	you can very quickly DM us and we'll throw you on at the beginning
0:21.5	or end of this. But we're going to have Nate Silver on. We talk a little bit about the Sloan
0:26.0	conference and we talk about elections and poker and sports betting and his new book on
0:31.2	sports betting. And so with that, let's start the process.
0:37.4	Bet, bet, I bet the process.
0:40.3	Bet the process.
0:41.3	Welcome to the podcast.
0:43.3	Bet the process.
0:44.3	Welcome to the podcast.
0:45.3	Bet the process.
0:47.3	It's not the typical cookie cutter nonsense.
0:49.3	If you came just for picks, you're in the wrong place.
0:51.3	Find a talent with the narrative to make a strong case. Instead of blindly assuming a team must be tanking we're looking for the edge
0:58.4	messy P body rankings crunching all the numbers in the simulator system that break down the data
1:03.5	analytically driven media coverage of sports gambling is pathetic the bottom
1:07.9	to another episode of the About the Process podcast.
1:15.3	It is the podcast post-super Bowl hiatus.
1:16.8	What did you do with your hiatus?
1:17.7	Did you miss me, Jeff?
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