What Are the Odds?

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🗓️ 4 December 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

What are the odds your crazy play at the end of the game works? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice investigate the use of AI and machine learning to predict and understand sports with mathematician and author Matt Ginsberg.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:05.0	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:15.0	This is Star Talk Sports Edition.
0:19.0	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:23.0	And today's sports edition, we've titled, What are the odds?
0:28.0	And if you're going to start a program with that question,
0:31.0	somewhere in there, there's going to have to be a mathematician.
0:33.0	So we'll get to that in just a moment.
0:36.0	But first, let me introduce my co-host, Chuck Knies, Jackie Baby.
0:39.0	Hey, Neil, what's happening?
0:41.0	All right. Now, you pay your rent, telling jokes.
0:44.0	But so why do we have you on this?
0:46.0	I'm absolutely...
0:47.0	If I were good enough to pay my rent, telling jokes, I wouldn't be here now.
0:53.0	Oh!
0:54.0	All right. So, Chuck, now we love you because you bring some levity
1:03.0	where it's sometimes needed.
1:05.0	But also, you're a sports enthusiast on a level that I think is uncommon among people
1:10.0	who are not otherwise paid to have that level of knowledge.
1:13.0	So, good to have you.
1:14.0	But where we get our street cred, of course, is from Gary, or Riley Gary.
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