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Shaun Maguire

About: The web is extremely cluttered and its seemingly infinite collective intelligence is vastly underutilized. "Crowdsourcing" is quite the buzzword these days -- but its prominence is justified. My absurdly ambitious goal is to efficiently link people with questions to the people who hold answers. I always love brainstorming with smart people, so feel free to message me.

What I study / where I work statistics, math
What I do best think?, procrastinate?
What I want to learn Where the web is evolving to, become exposed to interesting ideas
What I am most curious about in the area of people and data translating organic reputation systems onto the web

Discussions

discussions

Prediction Markets

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Professor Weigend briefly described prediction markets in class today. Specifically, he mentioned that if proper incentives are employed, people do...

Slashdot Review of Toby Segeran's Newest Book!

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Dr. Weigend mentioned Toby and his book in class on Monday. I also think he said he will be visiting class? Coincidentally, Slashdot had a revie...

Interesting article on Amazon's Web Services (cloud computing)

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AWS has been the recipient of much hype over the last couple months, but if you are still not familiar with it, or want an insider's look into its ...

Berkeley student 'Twitters' his way out of Egyptian jail

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This is not extremely relevant to our course -- but it is interesting and in some senses, close to home. Think of the reaction if Andreas twittered...


Network

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Comments

Andreas Weigend:

Your team's initial wiki for Class1 was great!