Ran on the Berri bike path! Conference started today. Met Nate Silver late at night in the business center (he is giving the invited talk for the conference) - we both are staying on the concierge level of the hotel and it was after the opening mixer for the conference. I had to print off some things for a meeting that I was chairing the next morning -- it was probably about midnight. I thought to myself how funny it would be if he too was in the business center -- and just as I was finishing up, in he walks! For those of you who don't know Nate Silver, he is a statistician/reporter (he calls himself a reporter - we call him a statistician) who correctly called the Presidential election and nearly 100% of the congressional seats in both 2008 and 2012 -- he also has a couple of books, a very popular blog on the NY Times website (though he is moving to ESPN this year) - and has been doing the late night TV circuit (Tonight Show, Daily Show, Colbert Report, etc.) for the past year or so. I showed him around, told him how happy we were that he was speaking at the conference, etc. and out he walks. I later realized I had not introduced myself, and most likely thought I worked for the hotel :) Luckily, I met him at a reception on monday night -- so I think that misconception might have been cleared up :)
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