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Can You Beat FiveThirtyEight’s NFL Forecasts?

Can You Beat FiveThirtyEight’s NFL Forecasts? Can you outsmart our forecasts? Make your picks using the sliders below. Our NFL forecasts are based on a simple algorithm called Elo ratings, which use only a few pieces of information to rate each team and project each game. But beware: We’re asking you to make a probabilistic […]

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Robots Are Beating Humans At Poker

On a scorching summer day two weeks ago, I was sitting in a cavernous room in the Mojave Desert along with some 2,000 other people, none of whom I’d ever met before. In a secure location somewhere on the premises sat more than $8 million in cash that we, and others like us in nearby […]

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