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Comment by icey | Hacker News Reader

This is more evidence of the bizarro universe taking ours over. For the first time I can recall, Peter Norvig is being labeled "NotHackerNews"

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It's a hacker writing about politics. Unless he developed some algorithm to determine the winner based on number of lies and non-answer-answers, I don't really give a damn about his "objective" analysis.

I'm sorry, this is an instance of snark gone wrong. I don't disagree with your "NonHackerNews" assessment. I just think it's funny that it applies to Peter Norvig too.

Well, then it fits as well as any of PG's essays that don't explicitly discuss 'hacking' and those never get this complaint.

That's the benefit of owning the keys to the server room :)

He cites 538 a few times. That's good enough for me. Some of the best "objective" analyses, based on evolving algorithms of poll data, are being done there. 1000 simulations/day across each of the 50 states. Watch how accurate they end up being.

EDIT: That's 10,000 simulations/day.

In this instance, the author is irrelevant. This would have been more aptly titled "2008 Election FAQ (by Peter Norvig)".

Or even better, "Why I prefer candidate A to candidate B, phrased in FAQ form with occasional attempts to sound impartial by pointing out [before immediately dismissing] the arguments the other way, by Peter Norvig".

Don't get me wrong -- as far as party-political blog postings go this one is by no means especially bad, but nor is it good enough to transcend its genre of the usual douche-is-better-than-turd politics.

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