An example of Collaboration at Work

[Dave Schwartz]

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/11/07/computer-gamers-foldit-protein-algorithm/

This is what I have always had in mind for a collaborative effort. It just never seems to work among horse players.

Good article.


Regards,
Dave Schwartz

[GameTheory]

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/11/07/computer-gamers-foldit-protein-algorithm/

This is what I have always had in mind for a collaborative effort. It just never seems to work among horse players.

Good article.
Re-framing what is in the article, imagine that the Foldit players are the betting public at large -- their collaboration is what sets the odds. The smaller individuals or groups of bettors making a serious effort to profit are like the scientists, and THE PUBLIC IS OUTPERFORMING THEM. So we do have collaboration of sorts (to handicap the race and set the odds), but now you want to create a smaller collaboration that somehow has to be smarter than the much bigger one that is the whole public. Tough game.

[Indulto]

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/11/07/computer-gamers-foldit-protein-algorithm/

This is what I have always had in mind for a collaborative effort. It just never seems to work among horse players.

Good article.


Regards,
Dave SchwartzThanks for sharing.

Imagine if Orwell were still around to update "1984" with this concept.

[Dave Schwartz]

I am not sure of the connection to Orwell's novel but what we are discussing here is a form of a "Prediction Market."

[PaceAdvantage]

I am not sure of the connection to Orwell's novel but what we are discussing here is a form of a "Prediction Market."Don't worry, Indulto himself is probably lost in his own esoterocism...

[Indulto]

As you were, Gentlemen.

I shudder to think the three of us had the same reaction.;)