Tag Archives: Odd Head

Help me beating David Pennock

Here is the problematic: – Midas Oracle is updated many times a day, with interesting stuff about prediction markets, collective forecasting, and other topics. In all logic, the number of Midas Oracle feed subscribers is increasing slowly but regularly. – … Continue reading

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The best blogs on prediction markets

CFM: Blogs Midas Oracle: Links – Send me your blog URL, if you write on prediction markets —and I’ll Include it in the list (maybe ). The new kid on the block is The Quantified Pundit. Great blog name. Bookmark … Continue reading

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Midas Oracle keeps a list of 600+ external web links, and each of them is now automatically embedded into its text anchor.

Here’s our list of links. Here’s the WordPress plugin I’m testing: Cross-Linker by Jan Hvizdak – Now, let’s test it. I’m writing a list of people and organizations, and the plugin will automatically embed a link into each text anchor: … Continue reading

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Why the 3 Midas Oracle blogs, the InTrade-TradeSports blog, the BetFair-TradeFair blog, the Betdaq blog, the Iowa Electronic Markets blog, the Hollywood Stock Exchange blog, the NewsFutures blog, the Freakonomics blog, the Odd Head blog, the Alpha Thesis blog, the Caveat Bettor blog, etc., should all be part of a giant, inter-linked, meta conversation about prediction markets.

[I]n the blogosphere, [] competition is a good thing, not a bad thing. I want other finance blogs to launch, the more the better. And I want them to be written by keener minds than mine. The more that happens, … Continue reading

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The definitive proof that Emile Servan-Schreiber, the NewsFutures CEO, is an essential part of the world-wide conspiracy aiming at silencing BetFair.

[This post is filed in the "humor" category, of course. ] — Take a look at the blogroll of the NewsFutures blog, which cites everybody but BetFair: Recent Posts UC Riverside’s eLab eXchange : featuring Competitive Forecasting and Idea Pageants Demise … Continue reading

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Mercury Research and Consulting Blog

… is The Blog Of The Day. Mercury Research and Consulting Blog – by Jed Christiansen UK-based Jed Christiansen is very articulate in exposing the case for internal prediction markets within organizations. He publishes regularly well-thought blog posts on the … Continue reading

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Meet the nicest guy of the field of prediction markets.

David Pennock —the “Odd Head“… well… not so odd.

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PREDICTION MARKET BLOGS: How many feed subscribers??

TAKEAWAY: #1. Very few readers do subscribe to our prediction market blogs using a (PC-based or Web-based) feed reader —although, on Midas Oracle, the number of subscribers is higher than the daily visitors coming directly from browser bookmarks (i.e., other … Continue reading

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An analysis of strategies for playing craps that take into account the variance of the bettor’s wealth, not just the expectation.

David “Odd Head” Pennock is looking for: – An analysis of strategies for playing craps that take into account the variance of the bettor’s wealth, not just the expectation. If you are a fellow geek [*], David Pennock (freshly returned … Continue reading

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Yahoo! research scientist David Pennock’s 15 minutes of fame

Cascade of events. #1. I sent the link to Odd Head (David Pennock’s excellent blog) to professor Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution. (I also sent him the procrastination link, and the methods of visualization link.) #2. He published it, and … Continue reading

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