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Zack M. Davis
Personal blog · zackmdavis.net/blogprogrammingphilosophy
Zack M. Davis writes An Algorithmic Lucidity, a personal blog at zackmdavis.net about programming and philosophy. Since 2013, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Zack M. Davis's post on scoring the 2020 US presidential forecasts. It is cited as an example of forecasting analysis that applies a scoring rule.
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What Hacker News says?
You might be interested in this blog post, which _does_ use a scoring rule: http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2020/11/scoring-2020-us-president... .
Comment linking /blog/2020/11/scoring-2020-us-presidential-election-predictions/
on “Prediction Markets Beat Polls”Submitted The cover letter that won't go unnoticed as a story · 8 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Standard Advice (2014) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Actually Personal Responsibility as a story · 1 points
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