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Oddhead Blog
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Oddhead Blog is a personal blog at blog.oddhead.com about economics and data. Since 2008, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on building prediction markets, such as implementing Hanson's market scoring rules and simulating a market in Ruby. Commenters cite it as the basis for a market design approach.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2006/10/30/implementing-hansons-market-maker/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-12-02
What Hacker News says?
Though less helpful if you're trying to simulate an actual market rather than building a new one, another approach to designing a trading market is to use market scoring rules, which can be somewhat simpler conceptually (as least as far as the code goes): http://blog.oddhead.com/2006/10/30/implementing-hansons-mark...
Comment linking /2006/10/30/implementing-hansons-market-maker/
on “Simulating a Market in Ruby”Submitted A prescient footnote as a story · 261 points
HN discussionCurious, the search http://www.google.com/search?q=roughtype.com Brings up all sorts of URL's that contain the string roughtype.com but are not the site itself. It's frightening, especially since we have no way of knowing what else is being filtered out and for whom. I would tend to give the big G the benefit of the doubt; it's a mistake or he got on the wrong side of the algorithm, or his site was infected with mal…
Comment linking /2009/06/22/un-hacking-my-blog/
on “Google Banishes Nicholas Carr From The Index”Submitted The economics of attention as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOP here, happy to answer any questions and all comments, suggestions, criticisms are welcome. Currently, it's a really quick rough hack -- it's based on this: http://blog.oddhead.com/2006/10/30/implementing-hansons-mark... but only a simplified blackbox interface (mapping the submitter's estimate to some trade action based on the current position and available balance) is exposed
Comment linking /2006/10/30/implementing-hansons-market-maker/
on “Show HN: Pregit.io – prediction markets for GitHub repos”Submitted Unlock your Spock as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A full Combinatorial Prediction Market as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microsoft Research New York City, First Days as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is it Prediction Market Winter? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Book of Odds is serious fun as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Review of Fortune's Formula by William Poundstone as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The key to understanding net neutrality: anonymity = good, egalitarianism = bad as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Yahoo Open Hack Day Sunnyvale as a story · 1 points
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