Midas Oracle .ORG » Knowledge 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 Internet-based encyclopedia Wikipedia is 10 years old. – [VIDEO] http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/02/08/wikipedia-celebrates-its-10th-birthday/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/02/08/wikipedia-celebrates-its-10th-birthday/#comments Tue, 08 Feb 2011 09:34:05 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=23081 Jimmy Wales:

What he thinks of Quora at 7:30… he doesn’t think much of it:

ADDENDUM: Jimmy Wales on the “wisdom of crowds”:

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]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2010/12/18/prediction-markets-in-blue-vs-forecasting-in-red/feed/ 0 I have just decided to ban the use of the word “blog” on Midas Oracle. http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/11/02/information-new-media-blogs/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/11/02/information-new-media-blogs/#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:19:40 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=18891 Midas Oracle lists 475 external web links. Not a single one is qualified as “blog”.

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/11/02/information-new-media-blogs/feed/ 0 Why statistics (and probability) ought to be taught over calculus in America’s mathematics curriculum http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/07/08/statistics-calculus-data-samurais/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/07/08/statistics-calculus-data-samurais/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:17:21 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=15182 Students should aspire to be “data samurais”.

Andrew Gelman, Lance Fortnow, Panos Ipeirotis and Bo Cowgill are hot again all of the sudden. :-D

Amazing videos of Arthur Benjamin:

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http://www.forecastingprinciples.com/PM/

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I have listed Andreas Graefe’s sub-website everywhere —and I have also put the link here, at the bottom of our blog sidebar.

(I’m too good, I know. :-D )

Best wishes to him.

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