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There is no great stagnation, professor Cowen. — [VIDEO]

Robot playing pool: Treating blindness by giving channelrhodopsin to neurons and making them responsive to light:

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Quadrotor juggles ball. – [VIDEO]

Awesome.

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The automated market maker of InTrade’s play-money prediction markets

Michael Schmahl: I think I have a guess as to how the play-money bot at Intrade works. Here are the order books for today at 2:48AM (2008-10-27) for NTH.DAKOTA.DEM on intrade.com and play.intrade.com: intrade.com play.intrade.com BID ASK BID ASK Qty … Continue reading

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Nowhere is it disclosed that the WSJ Political Market is trafficked by special bots.

Justin Wolfers in the Wall Street Journal: The Wall Street Journal is running a political futures market where you can “trade” on candidates’ future performance or see how others assess their chances. An important remark is that the WSJ Political … Continue reading

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Why does Chris Masse dislike so much the play-money prediction exchanges powered by InTrade?

A little disambiguation note on my two previous rants: I love InTrade’s real-money prediction exchange; I love the play-money prediction exchanges —using CDA (like NewsFutures) or MSR (like Inkling Markets); I don’t mind automated market makers in play-money prediction exchanges … Continue reading

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Poker bots can predict whether a player is bluffing.

The guest blogger at Freakonomics (Ian Ayres): [...] Poker enthusiasts have argued for online legalization, saying that poker is a game of skill. And of course, it is (just like chess and checkers). But ironically, it’s because poker is a … Continue reading

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