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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
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
Posted in Resources - References
Tagged Add new tag, Andrew "Bert" Black, Ashish Singal, blogs on prediction markets, Chris Hibbert, COM, event derivative markets, event derivatives, George Tziralis, Greece, Jason Ruspini, Jed Christiansen, Mike Linksvayer, Odd Head, Open Media, ORG, Prediction Market Information, prediction markets, United Kingdom, Washington Stock Exchange
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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
Posted in Information Technology, Midas Oracle Administration
Tagged blog, blogroll, Cato Institute, Cross-Linker, external links, external web links, Felix Salmon, Google, Jan Hvizdak, Justin Wolfers, links, Michael Giberson, Midas Oracle, New York Times, Odd Head, Prediction Market Industry Association, prediction markets, Robin Hanson, web links, WordPress
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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
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
Posted in Analysis (Industry), Exchanges & Markets, Humor
Tagged collective intelligence networks, Emile Servan-Schreiber, Hollywood Stock Exchange, Los Angeles, Mike Giberson, NewsFutures CEO, Odd Head, prediction markets, reporter, Republican Party, Ron Paul, RugBY League, sports betting, United States, Washington D.C., www.betfair.com, Yahoo!
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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
Posted in Resources - References
Tagged David Pennock, Jed Christiansen, Odd Head, prediction markets, United Kingdom
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Meet the nicest guy of the field of prediction markets.
David Pennock —the “Odd Head“… well… not so odd.
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
Posted in Analysis (Industry), Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce, Midas Oracle Statistics
Tagged Adam, Adam Siegel, Alan Jewell, Alex Forshaw, Alex Kirtland, David Pennock, David Perry, Emile Servan-Schreiber, Google, Hollywood Stock Exchange, Jason Ruspini, Jed Christiansen, John Delaney, London School of Economics, Niall O'Connor, Odd Head, PC, prediction markets, Robin Hanson, Steve Roman, Tyler Cowen, Web-based feed subscribers, Yahoo!
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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
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