Midas Oracle .ORG » Education http://www.midasoracle.org Prediction Markets, etc. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:24:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Peter Thiel on dropping out of college — [VIDEO] http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/09/18/peter-thiel-dropping-out-of-college/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/09/18/peter-thiel-dropping-out-of-college/#comments Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:31:11 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=26901

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]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/07/29/communication-collaboration-critical-thinking-creativity/feed/ 0 American citizens and its universities have experienced an ivy-laden ivory tower for the past half century. Students, however, can no longer assume that a four year degree will be the golden ticket to a good job in a global economy that cares little for their social networking skills and more about what their labor is worth on the global marketplace. — [LINK] http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/06/21/a-growing-number-of-skeptics-wonder-whether-college-is-worth-the-time-or-the-cost/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/06/21/a-growing-number-of-skeptics-wonder-whether-college-is-worth-the-time-or-the-cost/#comments Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:17:10 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=25345 “Peter Thiel may be on to something, but all of our kids just can’t up and quit college à la Bill Gates.”

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/06/21/a-growing-number-of-skeptics-wonder-whether-college-is-worth-the-time-or-the-cost/feed/ 0 Education is a bubble in a classic sense. To call something a bubble, it must be overpriced and there must be an intense belief in it. http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/01/24/education-is-a-bubble-peter-thiel/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/01/24/education-is-a-bubble-peter-thiel/#comments Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:27:22 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=22884 Continue reading →]]> Peter Thiel:

It’s basically extremely overpriced. People are not getting their money’s worth, objectively, when you do the math. And at the same time it is something that is incredibly intensively believed; there’s this sort of psycho-social component to people taking on these enormous debts when they go to college simply because that’s what everybody’s doing. [...] My suspicion is that [US colleges and universities are] just good at identifying talented people rather than adding value.

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/01/24/education-is-a-bubble-peter-thiel/feed/ 2 Dan Pink on motivation – Money (for mechanical tasks) – Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose (for cognitive tasks) – [VIDEO] http://www.midasoracle.org/2010/12/01/dan-pink-motivation-money-autonomy-mastery-purpose/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2010/12/01/dan-pink-motivation-money-autonomy-mastery-purpose/#comments Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:47:56 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=22051

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2010/12/01/dan-pink-motivation-money-autonomy-mastery-purpose/feed/ 0 Correlation gone wong? Kauffman Foundation study on education and entrepreneurship sparks controversy. http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/10/26/kauffman-foundation-education-entrepreneurship/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/10/26/kauffman-foundation-education-entrepreneurship/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:32:18 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=18534 “The question is whether being educated in a ‘top’ school helps or not. And the design of the study simply does not allow any conclusion about this question, in either direction!“

More info.

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/10/26/kauffman-foundation-education-entrepreneurship/feed/ 0 NO CORRELATION BETWEEN IVY LEAGUE EDUCATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/10/24/education-entrepreneurs-startups/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/10/24/education-entrepreneurs-startups/#comments Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:21:51 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=18491 Continue reading →]]> Those who are born without the silver spoons in their mouths are more motivated to succeed.

UPDATE:

Prof Panos Ipeirotis wrote this comment, at TechCrunch:

“The question is whether being educated in a ‘top’ school helps or not. And the design of the study simply does not allow any conclusion about this question, in either direction!“

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/10/24/education-entrepreneurs-startups/feed/ 6 Scholarpedia – Search results for query “prediction markets”: http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/08/07/scholarpedia-prediction-markets/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/08/07/scholarpedia-prediction-markets/#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:52:20 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=15973 Continue reading →]]> “No page with that title exists.”

On that same page, those academic i****s link to Amazon.com instead of linking to Wikipedia. What a bunch of mediocre i*******s. This is so stupid. Another evidence why we should should not listen to tenured professors who encapsulate themselves into the Ivory Tower. What a bunch of losers. I can’t believe that they don’t link to Wikipedia. It is pitiful to the highest degree.

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/08/07/scholarpedia-prediction-markets/feed/ 4 The Singularity University looks at prediction markets and collective intelligence. http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/08/03/singularity-university-prediction-markets/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/08/03/singularity-university-prediction-markets/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:51:18 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=15872 Continue reading →]]> David Orban:

In its ten tracks Singularity University (SU) tries to cover as much as possible of a vast amount of material. The specifics are steered by the track chairs, with a lot of input from both the students, the teaching fellows, and also sometimes from the outside. The Futures Studies & Forecasting track does indeed cover prediction markets, and yes, if not a proper market, tasks, ideas, and group activities are often evaluated using group raking tools within SU.

David

David Orban
Advisor & European Lead, Singularity University
NASA Ames, Bldg 17 Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
http://www.singularityu.org/david

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/08/03/singularity-university-prediction-markets/feed/ 0 The Singularity University + The Prediction Markets http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/08/02/the-singularity-university-the-prediction-markets/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/08/02/the-singularity-university-the-prediction-markets/#comments Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:31:25 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=15858 Continue reading →]]> Spot the 3 men on the right-side of the photo:

- In blue, our good friend Mike Linksvayer of Creative Commons;

- In red, the Google guy in charge of open-source software;

- In grey, Matt Mullenweg of WordPress.

Open Source Panel

So, my question to Mike:

- Do you sense that prediction markets could be a topic at the Singularity University, or do you think that they couldn’t care less?

UPDATE: See the comments by Mike and a guy at that University…

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