Yahoo scientist David Pennock proudly presents his new baby, Predictalot. Despite the ridiculousness of the name (lets hope they don’t get a lot of Spamalot), it is quite different than any other prediction market I’ve seen out there.
As Dr. Pennock describes on his blog post introducing Predicalot:
Predictalot is a true combinatorial prediction [...]
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I have written before about experience goods (as opposed to search goods) and the impact of these concepts on the ecommerce user experience, but quite frankly it never occurred to me to think of people as experience goods.
But that has been corrected thanks to a new paper about online dating (Frost, Jeana H., Zoe Chance, [...]
Navigate to the latest prediction market, a “health market” this time, from the Iowa Electronic Market, and one see this:
Ouch! Oh, wait. The text lamely explains the graphic. “Each marker represents a location containing current or former health market participants.”
Phew. Well, I’m happy to hear that. But now, what the [...]
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I’ve been watching the color palettes that are coming out of Kuler. This one caught my eye.
Title: Corporate Blew
(Thanks andreas.frank1976)
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From the FT:
“Prices just fell off a cliff,” says Dina Astell of the Racehorse Owners Association. “Trainers who used to get credit from their banks stopped getting credit.”
Now all eyes are on the sale of two year olds, hosted by Tattersalls, to be held tomorrow and Wednesday. It uses the old English coinage of guineas [...]
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Diamonds, it seems, can once again be a girl’s best friend … even if your personal wealth hasn’t been growing by leaps and bounds. The FT reports that diamond prices have fallen by over 30% in the past year.
Pick yourself up a couple extra carats … I mean carrots
(Thanks deviantART)
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I’m always amused by the mismatch that sometimes occurs between people’s ability to process, write and report the news, and the ability of raw data to communicate it that much faster. Here’s a simple example:
Perhaps the headline will be true — again — by the end of the day.
~alex
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My apologies, dear readers, for the infrequent postings of late, but I’ve been a bit reoccupied with other matters. Hopefully I’ll be able to post more starting in April.
~alex
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From ConfectioneryNews.com (where all serious bloggers should get their news).
And it wouldn’t be a post without a quote of some sort (emphasis mine):
In partnership with the UK’s Carbon Trust, Cadbury calculated that milk in their milk chocolate product contributes just over 60 per cent of carbon emissions, largely hailing from the dairy cows.
The average dairy [...]
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You’ve heard of the terms sawbuck, quid, simoleon and the loonie for money — money slang is not new — but I’d never heard these before:
$100 = Boomer
20’s = Frogs
50’s = Hee Haw
10’s = Squat
When I asked my friend where he heard these, he said: we just made them up in college. [...]
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