In order to get Warren Buffett's money you have to predict every single game in march madness. The chance of winning would be the chance of getting every single game predicted correctly. But computers are helping us make better predictions so I thought okay what if I wanted to have a one in a thousand shot which is still not terribly good but it means that if I get to try 20 times then I have a 1 in 50 chance of actually getting it sometime in the next 20 years.
Can machine learning predict the outcome of basketball games? On this episode of StarTalk: Sports Edition, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Gary O’Reilly, and Chuck Nice talk machine learning with computer scientist and author of The Factor Man, Matt Ginsberg.
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