Nate Silver
Hardware
NYC mayor pleads with Elon Musk to start producing ventilators
11:20 am PDT • March 19, 2020
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio made a direct plea to Elon Musk, asking the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX to produce ventilators to help alleviate a shortage at…
In the waning years of the last millennium, at my university, one of the cause célèbres of the progressive left was a concept known as “Manufacturing Consent,” the title of…
Media & Entertainment
Nate Silver Is Leaving The New York Times For ESPN
6:15 pm PDT • July 19, 2013
Nate Silver, the statistician who rose to national prominence for his scarily accurate predictions of the 2008 and 2012 U.S. presidential elections, is leaving The New York Times for ESPN.…
Human After All: Why Nate Silver’s Math Revolution Won’t Kill The Pundits
9:00 am PST • November 18, 2012
Editor’s note: Matt Baker is an engineer at Wealthfront, a software-based financial advisor that is democratizing access to high quality financial advice. In elections and finance, mathematical models take emotion out of…
