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Slay the spire wiki11/7/2022 ![]() ![]() ![]() Thank you to my Patrons for making this episode possible! ![]() Our theme music is « Good Bayesian », by Baba Brinkman (feat MC Lars and Mega Ran). So did you guess it yet? Yep, my guest for this episode is no other than Sir David Spiegelhalter - yes, there are Bayesian knights! Most importantly, he was featured in BBC1’s Winter Wipeout in 2011 – seriously, go check it out on his website it’s hilarious. He was also the President of the famous Royal Statistical Society in 2017-2018. He holds a PhD in Mathematical Statistics from the University of London and has been the Chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at Cambridge University since 2016. Maybe you just know him as the reigning World Champion in Loop – a version of pool played on an elliptical table – and are just discovering now that he is a fantastic science communicator – something that turns out to be especially important for stats education in times of, let’s say, global pandemic for instance. You may also know him from his podcast, Risky Talk, or his numerous appearances in newspapers, radio and TV shows. Most recently, he wrote the book Covid by Numbers.Ī mathematical statistician dedicated to helping the general public understand risk, uncertainty and decision-making, he’s the author of several books on the topic actually, including The Art of Statistics. To celebrate that random, crazy adventure, I wanted to do a special episode at any random point, and so it looks like it’s gonna be #50! This episode is special by its guest, not its number - although my guest knows a thing or two about numbers. Folks, this is the 50th episode of LBS - 50th! I never would have thought that there were so many Bayesian nerds in the world when I first interviewed Osvaldo Martin more than 2 years ago. ![]()
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