forecasting
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5 Things on the Iowa Poll that Broke the Internet
news.polymarket.com 🔮 5 Things on the Iowa Poll that Broke the InternetHow one poll is shaking up the race
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Kalshi wins lawsuit against CFTC
www.mikesblog.net KALSHI WINS LAWSUIT AGAINST CFTC!!!The prediction market platform Kalshi announced on their company Discord serve (which is open to the public) that they’ve won their lawsuit against the CFTC, which had previously banned them from operating prediction markets on US election.
- nathanpmyoung.substack.com Forecasting is mostly vibes. So is expertise
Surely you wouldn't make up an opinion?
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You don’t need to worry about which distribution to use any more
riskacademy.blog You don’t need to worry about which distribution to use any more RISK-ACADEMY BlogLet's face it - one of the biggest excuses risk managers use to avoid quantitative analysis is the paralysis that comes from choosing the "right" probability distribution. The selection options in ModelRisk can make your head spin: Overwhelming, right? And that's just one tool. The @RISK plugin also...
- explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk Student loan forecasts for England, Financial year 2023-24
<p>This statistics publication provides forecasts for higher education and further education student loans in England. These include forecasts of student numbers, student loan outlay and student loan repayments. Only income-contingent student loans issued to students through Student Finance England ...
- swiftcentre.substack.com Swift Centre’s UK General Election Forecasts
Swift Centre’s forecasters provide their predictions for Thursday’s general election
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How the Economist's presidential prediction model works
www.economist.com How our presidential prediction model worksThe ins and outs of how we forecast the election
- goodjudgment.substack.com Decoding SCOTUS: Navigating Media Bias in Supreme Court Forecasting
Superforecaster, GJ managing director, and leader of Good Judgment’s question team, Ryan Adler shares tips on how to approach forecasting Supreme Court decisions.
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Manifold Creator Partner Program
news.manifold.markets Dev insights - Creator Partner ProgramCreators earn $10k, how the program was created, and what's next
- quantifieduncertainty.org Higher-Order Forecasts
Higher-order forecasting could be a useful concept for prediction markets and forecasting systems more broadly. The core idea is straightforward: Nth-order forecasts are forecasts about (N-1)th order forecasts. Examples Here are some examples: 0-Order Forecasting (i.e., the ground truth) * Bi...
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Why prediction markets aren’t popular
worksinprogress.co Why prediction markets aren’t popular - Works in ProgressPrediction markets are legal, contrary to popular belief. But they remain unpopular, because they lack key features that make markets attractive.
- www.coindesk.com Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Vitalik Buterin Back $45M Investment in Polymarket
The series B funding round comes during a breakout year for the crypto-based prediction market platform, and brings its total funding well over $70 million.
There is a also a tweet thread by the PolyMarket CEO.
- www.astralcodexten.com Mantic Monday 5/13/24
Manifold pivot || Lab leak hindcasting || CFTC extra-double-bans prediction markets
- www.maximumtruth.org Government to Ban All US Election Betting
The ban would greatly slow, but not end, global progress on prediction markets
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Alert minutes for week #17/2024 on highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1
forecasting.substack.com Alert minutes for week #17/2024These are the weekly minutes for Alert’s foresight team, which seeks to identify and quantify possibly upcoming catastrophes.
- forecasting.substack.com The State of Forecasting: Dynamics, Challenges, Hopes
I am sad to report that forecasting hasn't taken over the world yet.
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Manifold is exploring real cash prizes, requiring economic changes
manifoldmarkets.notion.site Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
- goodjudgment.com Meet computer scientist and Superforecaster® Elan Pavlov
Superforecaster Elan Pavlov is a polymath. With a PhD in theoretical computer science and a postdoc in behavioral economics from MIT, he has “dabbled,” as he describes it, in many areas: mathematics and computational biology, machine learning, AI, and algorithms, law and even work on fish farms. “I ...
- www.nytimes.com Trump or Biden? The Stock Market Doesn’t Care.
Prediction markets say former President Donald J. Trump has a good chance of winning. So far, the stock market is fine with that.
- scitechdaily.com Simple Predictions Were Wrong: New Research Shatters Old Climate Change Assumptions
New mathematical modeling of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning – a system of ocean currents – shows greater complexity than previously thought. An international team of scientists has warned against relying on nature providing straightforward ‘early warning’ indicators of a climate disaster, as n
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Timeline of AI forecasts
theaidigest.org Timeline of AI forecasts - AI DigestWhat to expect in AI capabilities, potential harms, and society's response
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Susquehanna (SIG), becomes the 1st institutional market maker to commit to Kalshi
> With ~$2 Trillion in yearly volume, SIG is one of the largest market makers on the planet. They now have a dedicated trading division to trade prediction markets on Kalshi. This is the first time in prediction markets history that a prestigious Wall St institution commits to the asset class. > > The launch of SIG has the potential to transform prediction markets by making them similar to traditional markets — liquid and dynamic. You can now trade significant volumes, 100,000 shares at a time (up from 1,000) in Kalshi’s major markets.
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Predicting Progress: A Pilot of Expected Utility Forecasting in Science Funding
fas.org Predicting Progress: A Pilot of Expected Utility Forecasting in Science Funding - Federation of American ScientistsScience funding agencies are biased against risk, making transformative research difficult to fund. Forecast-based approaches to grantmaking could improve funding outcomes for high-risk, high-reward research.
> In summary, expected utility forecasting presents a promising approach to improving the rigor of peer review and quantitatively defining the risk-reward profile of science proposals. Our pilot study suggests that this approach can be quite user-friendly for reviewers, despite its apparent complexity. Further study into how best to integrate forecasting into panel environments, define proposal milestones, and calibrate impact scales will help refine future implementations of this approach.
- swiftcentre.substack.com Global coal consumption will defy expectations
China and India, the world’s largest coal consumers, will consume much more coal than energy analysts predict