Oddhead Blog http://blog.oddhead.com Musings of a computer scientist and Yahoo on prediction markets, gambling, and estimating the odds of everything Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:23:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Computer science = STEAM http://blog.oddhead.com/2010/03/11/computer-science-steam/ Why doesn’t Pittsburgh have a Silicon Hill? http://blog.oddhead.com/2010/03/09/why-doesnt-pittsburgh-have-a-silicon-hill/ Countdown to web sentience http://blog.oddhead.com/2010/03/07/countdown-to-web-sentience/ Predictalot! (And we mean alot) http://blog.oddhead.com/2010/03/05/predictalot/ Wanted: Bluetooth sethead http://blog.oddhead.com/2010/03/03/wanted-bluetooth-sethead/ Review of Fortune’s Formula by William Poundstone: The stranger-than-fiction tale of how to invest http://blog.oddhead.com/2010/03/01/fortunes-formula/ Notes from Yahoo! Open Hack Day NYC http://blog.oddhead.com/2009/10/21/notes-openhackdaynyc/ Yahoo! Open Hack Day NYC, Oct 9-10, 2009 http://blog.oddhead.com/2009/10/02/yahoo-open-hack-day-nyc/ Upcoming CS-econ events: New York Computer Science and Economics Day and ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce http://blog.oddhead.com/2009/10/02/upcoming-computer-science-economics-events/ The key to understanding net neutrality: Anonymity=good, egalitarianism=bad http://blog.oddhead.com/2009/08/06/key-to-net-neutrality-anonymity-versus-egalitarianism/