.@garymarcus is right that Bayes methods no cure-all but wrong to say N Silver claims/suggests this @fivethirtyeight http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/01/what-nate-silver-gets-wrong.html …
@tristanzajonc cc @jsellenberg hard to trust article that begins w a graph of absolute #s increasing over time w/out considering proportion!
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@GaryMarcus Explosion of Bayesian methods since advent of MCMC in early 90s is indisputable. Idea is old, but practical power is new(ish). -
@tristanzajonc but even Jordan recognizes scaling issues (in paper you recently tweeted). - 1 more reply
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