Monthly Archives: September 2009

Right2Bet is “initially funded by BetFair” to bend the European Union on betting legislation.

Mike Robb of BetFair attracts my attention on the Right2Bet mission statement: Right2bet is an organisation comprising consumers from across the European Union who believe in a citizen’s right to choose. We’re a consumer-led campaign, initially funded by Betfair, which … Continue reading

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NetFlix has awarded a $1 million bounty to an international team of mathematicians and computer scientists known as BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos.

“The prize is for improving the algorithm Netflix uses to recommend movies to users based on their past preferences. The competition gave computer scientists a dataset containing 100 million ratings given to nearly 20,000 films by half a million users, … Continue reading

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English Wikipedia will soon launch a new feature that will allow you to edit, as an inexperienced user, articles that have previously been locked more-or-less continuously for years.

“Faced with the choice of preventing you from editing at all, versus allowing you to edit even though you might have bad intentions, we have erred consistently for the latter — openness.“

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Your search – H1N1 “prediction markets” – did not match any documents. Previously: Have the public prediction markets ever been taken seriously by the media and the decision makers during the 1988–2009 period?

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Statements that Robin Hanson will never be able to say about the prediction markets

Previously: Have the public prediction markets ever been taken seriously by the media and the decision makers during the 1988–2009 period?

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Andrew Goldberg cares about prediction markets (VIDEO), but the New York Times does not.

Previously: Have the public prediction markets ever been taken seriously by the media and the decision makers during the 1988–2009 period?

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Have the public prediction markets ever been taken seriously by the media and the decision makers during the 1988–2009 period?

Why the influenza A (H1N1) prediction markets are not used by the media and the decision makers Robin Hanson: If H1N1 were more deadly, there’d be more interest in forecasting the number of victims. So far it seems about as … Continue reading

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How to win at the lottery (lotto) thanks to a method called the “wisdom of crowds”

Here is the e-mail I have just received: Dear Sir/Madam, WisdomOfTheNet.com is a new website that predicts lottery numbers. On 9th September, Derren Brown successfully predicted the National Lottery numbers using a technique called the wisdom of the crowds. The … Continue reading

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A stealth prediction market company seeks a CTO.

A stealth prediction market company seeks a CTO. This C-level team member will have considerable freedom to develop an already successful product. You will be compensated via a mix of cash and equity. While we have not revealed the product … Continue reading

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Customer Development starts by testing your hypotheses outside the building.

“Not in planning meetings, not in writing multiple pages of nicely formatted Marketing Requirements Documents, but by getting laughed at, ignored, thrown out and educated by potential customers as you listen to their needs and test the fundamental hypotheses of … Continue reading

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