Our Favorite Dork Boyfriend

By Japhy Grant November 10, 2008 at 10:11am

Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight has a profile up at the NYTimes this morning. He makes mouth breathing statisticians look sexy– and he totally called the 2008 election. He never mentions that he used to use his statistical prowess to win at poker, so we’re mentioning it here.

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The Gay Numbers

He is also a sports nut, and does stats for sports as well as I remember

November 10, 2008 at 10:11am

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