diminou

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   by diminou 10y ago

   Cool read, how do you convert something like logloss into something understandable by a ML contest noob? For instance it'd be cool to know the % of the time one of these algos predicted correctly, how do you get that from the logloss?
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   by diminou 12y ago

   Smart contracts can use oracle systems to get consensus on info from the outside world. So a smart contract normally can't communicate with anything besides its internal state, but with Augur they can get info about outside events. On
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   by diminou 12y ago

   We're working on a more scalable and secure version currently. Eta is sometime around May for the official production version
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   by diminou 12y ago

   1). Good question. Paul Sztorc -- the inventor of the Truthcoin concept, on which Augur is based -- has been helping us a lot with game theoretic calculations. The Reputation concept's goal is to create a Schelling point on the conse
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   by diminou 12y ago

   We are going to sidechain bitcoin to allow bets directly using bitcoin.
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   by diminou 12y ago

   Perhaps you remember InTrade? Or there's also a few UK websites like that. The problem is they're centralized, so they can go out of business or a person who judges / shows the outcomes of events could lie to get a payout.
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   Wager on Anything Using Bitcoin – Decentralized, Trustless Prediction Markets(augur.net)

   78 points by diminou 12y ago|18 comments