Monthly Archives: May 2009

Wikipedia is cracking down on self-serving edits.

Posted on May 29, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Wikipedia is cracking down on self-serving edits. This guy should watch out.

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Institutional Decision Analysis

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Institutional Decision Analysis – a concept by Andrew Gelman The term “decision analysis” has multiple meanings in Bayesian statistics. When we use the term here, we are not talking about problems of parameter estimation, squared error loss, etc. Rather, we … Continue reading →

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Emile Servan-Schreiber coined the term “collective forecasting”… Robin Hanson popularized it…

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

… and Midas Oracle is reaping all the benefits. I am laughing thru my a**.

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Why reporting on *one* expired prediction market is no fun… when using the scientific approach

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Panos Ipeirotis hates it when I report an individual prediction market “failure“. (“Stupidity” is how he labelled it. ) I am a fan of Panos Ipeirotis’s scientific approach on prediction markets. It is all right. However, I (obviously) won’t use … Continue reading →

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Google PageRank Update

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

A Google Toolbar PageRank update is underway. It will take a few hours or days to update on all of their datacenters. Check your PR at the end of this week, using the FireFox add-on or any Web-based PR checker. … Continue reading →

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Mobile site review: BetFair

Posted on May 27, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Mobile site review: BetFair

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IncentAlign – Harness the power of free markets for your firm…

Posted on May 27, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

IncentAlign – Harness the power of free markets for your firm…

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Imaginatik is the leading provider of collaborative innovation and enterprise crowdsourcing solutions.

Posted on May 27, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Imaginatik is the leading provider of collaborative innovation and enterprise crowdsourcing solutions.

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In which I respectfully disagree with Patri Friedman

Posted on May 27, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Patri Friedman (commenting on the Robin Hanson gadfly’s post): Ah, Mencius. Combines a brilliant insight on prediction markets that I hadn’t seen before and increases my understanding (they require training) with ridiculously stupid points like “They can’t predict things that … Continue reading →

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Patenting the prediction markets?

Posted on May 27, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Robin Hanson is not amused. Here is a CNET article on how to fix the US patent system.

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