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Some Ben?
Personal blog · blog.someben.comaieconomicsdata
Some Ben? is a personal blog at blog.someben.com about ai, economics and data. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Twitter Prediction Model Cooked”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Some Ben? is a blog whose 2011 post argues against a paper claiming Twitter trends predict Wall Street, giving seven reasons the paper is flawed. HN readers link it as a takedown of that paper.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
systematic long/short equities, AI, infovis, hospitality
Most-linked posts?
- Twitter Prediction Model Cooked4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-05-17
What Hacker News says?
That Twitter paper has been torn to shreds over the last couple of years. Here is me snarking: http://blog.someben.com/2011/05/sour-grapes-seven-reasons-wh...
Comment linking /2011/05/sour-grapes-seven-reasons-why-that-twitter-prediction-model-is-cooked/
on “Google Search Terms Can Predict the Stock Market”Submitted Hashing Trick Explained, for machine learning as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere's an extensive takedown of the paper; it has lots of flaws: http://blog.someben.com/2011/05/sour-grapes-seven-reasons-wh...
Comment linking /2011/05/sour-grapes-seven-reasons-why-that-twitter-prediction-model-is-cooked/
on “Twitter Trends Beat Analysts In Predicting Wall Street”Submitted Twitter Prediction Model Cooked as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seven Reasons Why “That” Twitter Prediction Model is Cooked as a story · 1 points
HN discussion