thisAintNoGame

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by thisAintNoGame 13y ago
I think its important to understand that Silicon Valley practices are not representative of societal trends. The examples the author uses are about going to a welfare office and interviewing for an administrative position at a cosmetology s
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by thisAintNoGame 14y ago
I actually dont think you could do that because teams need to randomize amongst plays or else defenses would crush them. That is one of the coolest (in my opinion) parts about football is the amount of strategic depth that goes into it. For
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by thisAintNoGame 14y ago
Witholding the top bid (except to those who are interested) means buyers offer what they think the item is worth - which could be a lot more than top bid + 1$. That's not true. I'm not going to put down what I believe the item is worth be
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by thisAintNoGame 14y ago
Hmmm... I have no proof for what I'm about to say but here it is anyway. The only information that bidders will practically care about is the current top bid. So the information that you are charging people for is the same thing that most a
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by thisAintNoGame 14y ago
Out of curiosity, how much thought have you put into the auction format? Is there an underlying theoretical model in use? Allowing me to buy information on the auction is an interesting choice but I'm not convinced it will actually lead to
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by thisAintNoGame 14y ago
I'm not sure machine learning algorithms are the right approach. Crowd curation mechanisms (i.e. the upvote/downvote systems but one could imagine other systems) have the advantage of quickly adapting to the ever changing tastes of a commun
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by thisAintNoGame 14y ago
That depends on field. In most areas of computer science, conferences are more important than journals (journals generally just publish extended conference papers).