Monthly Archives: September 2011

Dan Yergin says the global supply of oil and gas has risen in the last 20 years, defying the predictions of ‘peak oil’ theorists. — [VIDEO]

[Download this post to watch the video, if your feed reader does not show it.] Via MG.

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Peter Thiel on dropping out of college — [VIDEO]

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How and Economy Grows and Why it Crashes — [VIDEO]

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iPad’s iOS 5 vs. Windows 8 for tablets — [VIDEO]

Analysis.

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Here’s the (portable) cold fusion-powered power plant that Andrea Rossi will deliver to Florida next month. — [VIDEO]

Video 1. Video 2. I want to see Mike Giberson’s face next month, when LENR is validated by the scientific community, as the cheapest and cleanest way to produce energy. I want him to eat his hat.

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Where The Economist got inspiration for its ‘Grapes of Wrath’ cover — [ART]

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How many predictions is the The Good Judgment Team’s system currently handling? — [NEWS]

20,000.

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A Multi-Agent Prediction Market Based on Boolean Network Evolution — [PAPER]

A Multi-Agent Prediction Market Based on Boolean Network Evolution – PDF file.

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Are InTrade lying about the number of ‘predictions’ they process? — [GUEST AUTHOR]

Intrade now post the following claim on their home page: Platform Metrics (More Soon) Platform operational: Since 2001 Total Predictions: 619,141,899 Average Daily Predictions: 169,589 This is just a preposterous misrepresentation of the volume of activity on the site. The … Continue reading

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) — [VIDEO]

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