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Tag Archives: bots
There is no great stagnation, professor Cowen. — [VIDEO]
Robot playing pool: Treating blindness by giving channelrhodopsin to neurons and making them responsive to light:
Posted in Inventions & Innovations, Research, Science
Tagged blindness, bots, droids, Ed Boyden, innovation, innovations, Institute of Automatic Control Engineering, inventions, light, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, MIT’s Ed Boyden, neurons, pool, Research, robot, robots, Science, technologies, technology, Thomas Nierhoff
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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
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
Posted in Ethics, Exchanges & Markets, Market Makers (Automated)
Tagged automated market maker, automated market markers, bots, Eric Zitzewitz, futures, InTrade, Justin Wolfers, National Journal, prediction markets, The Wall Street Journal, USD, Wall Street Journal, WSJ Political Market
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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
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