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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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    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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