October 6, 2014
Is Jon Snow dead?
From Richard Vale, at University of Canterbury
What’s this? You are claiming that we can use Bayesian statistics to predict Game of Thrones?
Probably not, no.But we can try?
Yes!…
Further coverage, and his full article
(via Dion O’Neale)
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And here I thought “Jon Snow” was a spelling error for “John Snow” and we’d be getting some Epidemiology content. :-) Maybe about Ebola and public health interventions, which seemed topical.
This fellow here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Snow_(physician)
[and, for the record, I am willing to bet John Snow is dead, no clue about Jon Snow]
10 years ago
You need
this link
10 years ago
and I thought you meant the newsreader (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Snow)
10 years ago
And before this gets further out of hand, here’s the Wikipedia disambiguation page
10 years ago