adam

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In Memphis, where people fear Elon Musk's supercomputer is making them ill(thetimes.com)
3 points by adam 10mo ago|0 comments
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Beyond Meat shares surge for a third day in a row as meme traders jump on board(cnbc.com)
2 points by adam 11mo ago|0 comments
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Y Combinator 20 Year Retrospective(digitalfrontier.com)
2 points by adam 2y ago|0 comments
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Job Board for AI Agents(jobforagent.com)
1 points by adam 2y ago|1 comments
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by adam 2y ago
Congratulations on the launch. We sell B2B crowd forecasting software, a fairly niche market, so something like this could be very interesting for us. We sell mostly into governments, think tanks, and other types of research institutions, w
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by adam 3y ago
We run a public crowdsourced forecasting site for the government here: https://inferpub.com . For our various stakeholders, we're using ChatGPT to summarize forecaster's rationales for their probabilistic forecast. We a
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Pregnant woman given HOV ticket argues fetus is passenger, post-Roe(washingtonpost.com)
34 points by adam 4y ago|26 comments
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Show HN: Crowdforecasting the Future of US/EU Relations(rangeforecasting.org)
1 points by adam 4y ago|0 comments
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by adam 4y ago
Somewhat similar conversation going on in the /r/chicago subreddit. Top comment from that thread[1]: Anthony Bourdain is a far superior wordsmith than myself, so I will leave this here: Here are Bourdain’s most memorable quotes ab
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The frenzied world of rare watches(vanityfair.com)
69 points by adam 4y ago|140 comments
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by adam 5y ago
2021 Tesla Y owner here. Midwest location. Took a 150 mile trip yesterday. Temps were 38F. Left my house fully charged at 330mi range, battery topped off. Arrived with 100mi estimated range left. On the way home later that evening, temps we
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by adam 5y ago
Many lament the downfall of traditional media then crucify them when they creatively explore new opportunities for themselves. Should the "Gray Lady" have just stubbornly continued to print its papers until it was bought up by the
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by adam 5y ago
We run the Cosmic Bazaar forecasting service (Economist article: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/04/15/... ) on their PaaS and their services and people have been excellent to work w
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CFTC fines Polymarket $1.4M, orders markets shutdown and user refund(crypto-news-flash.com)
2 points by adam 5y ago|0 comments
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by adam 5y ago
Also relevant: replacing 4-way's with roundabouts in Carmel, IN: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/20/climate/roundabouts-clima...
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by adam 5y ago
Having worked in a consulting firm for years, I spent very little time in the office anyway. Instead I was constantly deployed to client sites. I wonder how this will impact those who are working for clients who have different policies. Wil
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by adam 5y ago
I hope people don't read your comment and choose not to read the article. I was very moved by how Bobby's death impacted his family and fiancee in different ways. It's an extremely well written piece and doesn't deserve
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The Would-Be Savior of Patagonia(theatlantic.com)
2 points by adam 5y ago|0 comments
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In Karachi, hot weather is normal but 44°C feels like you’re going to die(theguardian.com)
73 points by adam 5y ago|57 comments
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by adam 5y ago
I would encourage anyone with a little extra time to read about the PLATO system. Truly ahead of its time, invented by an engineer at University of Illinois named Don Bitzer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Bitzer
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We're Finally Starting to Revolt Against the Cult of Ambition(nytimes.com)
25 points by adam 5y ago|8 comments
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by adam 5y ago
I'm curious if you allow the project to enter actuals after the fact, then you can compare them to individuals/aggregate estimates so you know how biased your model/individuals/the organization is on these types of estim
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by adam 5y ago
I immediately thought of business travel as well. Project us all in to a virtual conference room and give us a suite of collaboration tools to use while we're all there. The only thing missing is the after meeting drinks and dinner, bu
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by adam 5y ago
Reminded of this Twitter thread from a couple months ago about how this will all go down: https://twitter.com/ShaanVP/status/1371972261004070913
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by adam 5y ago
There's a forecast question on Foretell (a crowd forecasting site run by a think tank at Georgetown) about the likelihood of a successful acquisition if anyone is interested. Current crowd consensus is 41% likelihood, down 2% in the la
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by adam 5y ago
I'm reminded of this article from 2011 about Silicon Valley executives who send their kids to their local Waldorf School...Where tech is forbidden. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/technology/at-wa
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Spooks are turning to superforecasting in the Cosmic Bazaar(economist.com)
3 points by adam 5y ago|1 comments
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by adam 6y ago
We do a version of this with our clients, where we use our forecasting software and host a "live" forecasting session. We make people forecast "cold" on something: likelihood of hitting milestones, competitive intelligen
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Kazuo Ishiguro uses artificial intelligence to reveal the limits of our own(newyorker.com)
102 points by adam 6y ago|26 comments
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by adam 6y ago
You might also take a look at your logo when you're thinking about your brand. It looks very similar to Aether Apparel: https://www.aetherapparel.com

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