Nate Silver: evaluation

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…In New York City, is there better food on the avenues or the streets? I read you on this. I think the — but New York is weird, because there are really, there are kind of three New Yorks from a culinary perspective. Right? There’s rich Michelin-starred New York, there’s kind of hip Soho and Williamsburg New York, and there’s ethnic New York, for lack of a better term. Making sure that you have a mental list of places from all three types of those. There’s some rules that work well in one of those lanes that don’t work well in the others, necessarily. In the very high-end restaurants of New York, it’s like so competitive that I think your rule about, order the weirdest thing on the menu, I think there are parts of New York where that probably isn’t true, because it’s so hyper competitive that the menu couldn’t afford to lead people astray. Sometimes the thing that the menu is very clearly pointing you toward in New York is the kind of thing that you would want to order instead. That might not be true if you go out to Queens or something like that, where, frankly, pound for pound, probably the food is better than Manhattan or Brooklyn. But yeah, you could write a whole book and maybe I will, especially if we have Trump win the election or something, maybe I’ll write a whole book about heuristics for eating food in New York. I said before and I’ll tell the whole crowd, one of my dreams is that someday you write the quantitative history of New York City. This would be one of my favorite books. Question about the weather reporting. There’s some evidence that there’s what is called wet bias, so storms are over-forecast. Why is that? Is this even true?…

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