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Samanth Subramanian

@samanth_s
12 posts
2025-10-02
In the @gdnlongread today, an excerpt from my new book, reported from Tonga, which had its sole undersea cable connection snapped and became, for a long while, the loneliest place in the world. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2025-10-02 View on X
The Guardian

A book excerpt details Tonga's 2022 internet outage after a colossal underwater volcanic eruption ripped apart the cables connecting the country to the world

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ se... Sarah Pinsker / @sarahpinsker : This is a fascinating article about our connected world and what happens when the connections stop.  —  www.the...

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2024-10-14
They began with data scouts: people who went to stadiums and relayed the game live back to odds “traders” at HQ. But sports orgs got savvy to the value of the data. Now bodies like the NBA and ATP sell game data to oddsmakers for hundreds of millions. (Enter lawsuits.) [2/n] [image]
2024-10-14 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at sports data tech companies like Sportradar, which set betting odds for sports gambling apps and websites, as they build models to keep people betting

The global empire of sports betting is now crashing into the USA and it is incomprehensibly more sophisticated, technical, and profitable than you might possibly imagine.  —  This ...

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The industry resembles Wall St's quant shops and trading desks far more than bookies at the dog track. Everything about it is wild, particularly the stories. (I didn't even tell the one about the data scout in Siberia.) Here's the whole piece again: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-10-14 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at sports data tech companies like Sportradar, which set betting odds for sports gambling apps and websites, as they build models to keep people betting

The global empire of sports betting is now crashing into the USA and it is incomprehensibly more sophisticated, technical, and profitable than you might possibly imagine.  —  This ...

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These companies have to ensure there's a flood of betting opportunities on bet apps 24/7. To not do that would be like Amazon not having anything to sell in the afternoon. But it has also created huge concern about addiction. [4/n] [image]
2024-10-14 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at sports data tech companies like Sportradar, which set betting odds for sports gambling apps and websites, as they build models to keep people betting

The global empire of sports betting is now crashing into the USA and it is incomprehensibly more sophisticated, technical, and profitable than you might possibly imagine.  —  This ...

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For @BW, I wrote about the little-known companies that set your bookie's sporting odds. They trawl Malawi football, Indian kabaddi, South Korean basketball, and hundreds of other leagues in dozens of sports to provide an unending stream of bets... [1/n] https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-10-14 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at sports data tech companies like Sportradar, which set betting odds for sports gambling apps and websites, as they build models to keep people betting

The global empire of sports betting is now crashing into the USA and it is incomprehensibly more sophisticated, technical, and profitable than you might possibly imagine.  —  This ...

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All this data goes into variants of the Poisson distribution, which helps predict events. (Fun fact: the two mathematicians at univs who wrote the foundational paper on Poisson and soccer predictions went on to work for two of the UK's biggest gamblers) [3/n] [image]
2024-10-14 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at sports data tech companies like Sportradar, which set betting odds for sports gambling apps and websites, as they build models to keep people betting

The global empire of sports betting is now crashing into the USA and it is incomprehensibly more sophisticated, technical, and profitable than you might possibly imagine.  —  This ...

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2024-10-13
All this data goes into variants of the Poisson distribution, which helps predict events. (Fun fact: the two mathematicians at univs who wrote the foundational paper on Poisson and soccer predictions went on to work for two of the UK's biggest gamblers) [3/n] [image]
2024-10-13 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at sports data tech companies like Sportradar, which set betting odds for sports gambling apps and websites, as they build models to keep people betting

Big-money data deals and advanced statistical models are helping to predict match outcomes and keep people betting. Bluesky: @cachiporra.bsky.social . X: @jeremy_keehn , @bw , @har...

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They began with data scouts: people who went to stadiums and relayed the game live back to odds “traders” at HQ. But sports orgs got savvy to the value of the data. Now bodies like the NBA and ATP sell game data to oddsmakers for hundreds of millions. (Enter lawsuits.) [2/n] [image]
2024-10-13 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at sports data tech companies like Sportradar, which set betting odds for sports gambling apps and websites, as they build models to keep people betting

Big-money data deals and advanced statistical models are helping to predict match outcomes and keep people betting. Bluesky: @cachiporra.bsky.social . X: @jeremy_keehn , @bw , @har...

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The industry resembles Wall St's quant shops and trading desks far more than bookies at the dog track. Everything about it is wild, particularly the stories. (I didn't even tell the one about the data scout in Siberia.) Here's the whole piece again: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-10-13 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at sports data tech companies like Sportradar, which set betting odds for sports gambling apps and websites, as they build models to keep people betting

Big-money data deals and advanced statistical models are helping to predict match outcomes and keep people betting. Bluesky: @cachiporra.bsky.social . X: @jeremy_keehn , @bw , @har...

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These companies have to ensure there's a flood of betting opportunities on bet apps 24/7. To not do that would be like Amazon not having anything to sell in the afternoon. But it has also created huge concern about addiction. [4/n] [image]
2024-10-13 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at sports data tech companies like Sportradar, which set betting odds for sports gambling apps and websites, as they build models to keep people betting

Big-money data deals and advanced statistical models are helping to predict match outcomes and keep people betting. Bluesky: @cachiporra.bsky.social . X: @jeremy_keehn , @bw , @har...

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For @BW, I wrote about the little-known companies that set your bookie's sporting odds. They trawl Malawi football, Indian kabaddi, South Korean basketball, and hundreds of other leagues in dozens of sports to provide an unending stream of bets... [1/n] https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-10-13 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at sports data tech companies like Sportradar, which set betting odds for sports gambling apps and websites, as they build models to keep people betting

Big-money data deals and advanced statistical models are helping to predict match outcomes and keep people betting. Bluesky: @cachiporra.bsky.social . X: @jeremy_keehn , @bw , @har...

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2023-10-03
Recently, I spent the better part of the week hanging out with Michael Lewis, talking about...everything: * his new book on Sam Bankman-Fried * his daughter's death * the fresh controversy around “The Blind Side.” Some vignettes follow: [1] https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2023-10-03 View on X
New York Times

Michael Lewis depicts Sam Bankman-Fried as delusional in his new book, Going Infinite, but says SBF's explanations remain “irritatingly difficult to disprove”

“Going Infinite,” by Michael Lewis, offers a behind-the-scenes account of Mr. Bankman-Fried's rise and fall.

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