Conspicacy theory (involving credit cards) about coffee futures – [VIDEO]
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The right way to deal with invaders – [AUSSIE RULES]
Friday, the 13th – [HUMOR]
Thomas Malones collective intelligence is an abyssal hodgepodge… a la Prevert. – [LINK]
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
human computation
social computing
crowdsourcing
wisdom of crowds (e.g., prediction markets)
group memory and problem-solving
deliberative democracy
animal collective behavior
mechanism design
organizational design
public policy design
ethics of collective intelligence (e.g., “-digital sweatshops”-)
computational models of group search and optimization
emergence of intelligence
new technologies for making groups smarter
Google Prediction API gives you access to Google’s sophisticated machine learning algorithms to analyze a wide range of data and provide predictions for likely outcomes. — [FORECASTING TECH]
You can build a predictive model to find hidden patterns in financial data, or else.
–> Google Prediction API – Machine learning for your business.
The carrot and stick approach has been oversold. – [VIDEO]
Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat is a cold fusion reactor able to convert few grams of nickel powder and a small amount of high pressure hydrogen into heat for many months. — [VIDEO]
Someone has translated in English the Italian documentary on Andrea Rossi’s cold fusion reactor:
For background story, click on the tags, “Andrea Rossi“, “E-cat“, or “LENR“.
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Tyler Cowens The Great Stagnation – [REVIEW]
I don’t think Cowen failed to appreciate these points, but explaining the rate-of-change in productivity, mean income, asset returns, etc. in terms of a technological slowdown is still mainly a “story” that we are telling ourselves. We could also tell a story in terms of demographic structure and population growth. Both narratives are plausible, but difficult to show rigorously. Regardless of how we try to explain what has happened, it is uncontroversial that it is becoming harder to retire, and that fact has a large bearing on quality of life. It is difficult to quantify the gains from radio to television to color TV to Youtube on IPhone (where one might take pleasure in watching cigarette commercials from the ’60s and ’70s), but having to work or not seems a lot more straightforward, and stagnation on that front is more tangible. Of course, you will probably live longer in retirement, but can you afford that longevity? That is the more concrete issue here.
Andrea Rossis E-Cat is a cold fusion reactor able to convert few grams of nickel powder and a small amount of high pressure hydrogen into heat for many months. – [VIDEO]
Someone has translated in English the Italian documentary on Andrea Rossi’-s cold fusion reactor:
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