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- Valve = the anti Apple — [INTERNAL DOCUMENT]
- Why Starbucks mistreats its customers — [VIDEO]
- The rise of the 1% is good for the economy. — [VIDEO]
- Numenta’s Grok prediction engine — [LINK]
- Pirated movies are more usable. — [INFOGRAPHIC]
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- Steve Jobs, the inventor — [VIDEO]
- Proposal for a better iPad keyboard — [VIDEO]
- Bain Capital’s Edward Conard on investing and risk taking — [LINK + VIDEO]
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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Bernard Henry-Lévy is a pretentious clown who is 10 times the national embarrassment to France than Dominique Strauss-Kahn ever is. — [RANT]
BHL is a disgrace for the French, and DSK is a shame for France. UPDATE: Laila Lalami + Mike Masnick + other links listed here.
Posted in Ethics
Tagged Bernard-Henry Lévy, BHL, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, DSK, I.M.F., IMF chief, International Monetary Fund, philosophers, politicians
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InTrade floats Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s life. — [PREDICTION MARKET]
InTrade: New Prediction Market: Dominique Strauss-Kahn Tuesday, May 17, 2011 On May 16th 2011 Dominique Strauss-Kahn appeared in New York City Criminal Court and was charged with two counts of a criminal sexual act in the first degree , first-degree … Continue reading
Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Market Contract Statements, Market Genesis
Tagged bets, Betting, betting markets, contracts, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, DSK, event derivative markets, event derivatives, forecasts, France, French politics, horny chimpazee, I.M.F., IMF chief, International Monetary Fund, InTrade, politicians, Politics, prediction markets, Predictions, rutting chimpazee, Tristane Banon, world politics
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Cold fusion reactors are coming to America, so US energy economists (like Michael Giberson) cannot ignore LENR anymore. — [NEWS]
NyTeknik published an article today about Ampenergo, a newly formed US company which will be partnering with Andrea Rossi’s, company, Leonardo Corporation to commercialize his E-Cat technology. Hello, Mike, wake up.
Posted in Business, Inventions & Innovations
Tagged Ampenergo, Andrea Rossi, applied research, applied science, business startups, CANR, capital, chemically-assisted nuclear reactions, chemistry, cold fusion, cold fusion reactor, cold fusion reactors, colf-fusion reactors, E-Cat, economic crisis, economic growth, economic stagnation, electrical energy, electricity, electricity plant, energy, Energy Catalyzer, growth, hydrogen, Hydrogen-Nickel cold fusion, innovation, innovations, inventions, investing, investments, LENR, Low Energy Nuclear Reaction, Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions, Low-Energy Nuclear Reactor, Ni-H cold fusion, nickel, Nickel-Hydrogen cold fusion reactor, nuclear energy, physicists, physics, power, power plant, power production, Research, Science, startups, weak force nuclear reactions
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Conspicacy theory (involving credit cards) about coffee futures — [VIDEO]
Posted in Business, Finance, Financial Markets, Hedging & Insurance, The Global Economy
Tagged coffee, coffee futures, coffee price, coffee prices, commodities, commodity, commodity prices, credit cards, derivative trading, derivatives, futures, Hedging, Howard Schultz, inflation, Max Keiser, price, prices, speculation, speculators, Starbucks, trading
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The right way to deal with invaders — [AUSSIE RULES]
- You’re not welcome! Australian ships boatload of asylum seekers to Malaysia in tough new immigration measure. – Kicked Out: Australian ministers have swapped a boatload of asylum seekers for refugees after making a deal with the Malaysian government. Chris … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged Australia, Australian politics, Chris Bowen, conquistadors, human migrations, immigrants, immigration, invaders, invasion, migrants, migrations, People, Politics
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Thomas Malone’s collective intelligence is an abyssal hodgepodge… “à la Prévert”. — [LINK]
Topics of interest include but are not limited to: human computation social computing crowdsourcing wisdom of crowds (e.g., prediction markets) group memory and problem-solving deliberative democracy animal collective behavior mechanism design organizational design public policy design ethics of collective intelligence … Continue reading
Friday, the 13th — [HUMOR]
Posted in Gambling, Humor
Tagged Friday 13, Gambling, Humor, humour, Loto, lottery, lotto, random event generator, random event generators, REG, REGs, superstition
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The 2009 takedown of Jim Cramer by John Stewart — [VIDEO]
2011′s NYT on Jim Cramer. For more, follow our ‘Jim Cramer‘ tag, or read, “Jim Cramer’s Market Manipulation 101“. – The Daily Show With Jon StewartM – Th 11p / 10c CNBC Gives Financial Advice Daily Show Full EpisodesImportant Things … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Finance, Financial Markets
Tagged bank, banking system, banking systems, banks, bonds, derivatives, equities, Ethics, Finance, Financial Markets, investing, investments, Jim Cramer, John Stewart, lies, securities, stocks, truth, US banking system
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Why accountants don’t run start-ups — [VIDEO]
I just love the title of this talk:
Posted in Business, Business Administration, Entrepreneurship, Inventions & Innovations
Tagged accountants, angel investors, Business, Business Administration, business startup, business startups, businesss angels, entrepreneur, entrepreneurs, funding, investing, investments, startup, startups, Steve Blank, venture capital, venture capitalists, vision
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Google Prediction API gives you access to Google’s sophisticated machine learning algorithms to analyze a wide range of data and provide predictions for likely outcomes. — [FORECASTING TECH]
You can build a predictive model to find hidden patterns in financial data, or else. –> Google Prediction API – Machine learning for your business.
Posted in Forecasting (Science & Practice), Information Technology, Inventions & Innovations
Tagged algorithms, API, APIs, data, economic data, financial data, forecast, forecasting, forecasts, Google, Google Prediction, Google Prediction API, Information Technology, innovation, innovations, invention, inventions, machine learning, machine learning algorithms, predicting, prediction, Predictions, predictive model, predictive models, Software
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