The wisdom of crowds
... New York For more information, visit www.wisdomofcrowds.com I THE WISDOM OF CROWDS THE WISDOM OF CROWDS JAMES S U R O W I E C K I ®, ANCHOR A Division of BOOKS Random New York House, Inc FIRST ... The New Yorker The Library of Congress has cataloged the Doubleday edition as follows: Surowiecki, James, 196 7The wisdom of crowds : why the many are smarter than the few and how collective wisdom ... in the United States of America 10 To Mom and Dad C O N T E N T S Introduction xi PART I The Wisdom of Crowds The Difference Difference Makes: Waggle Dances, the Bay of Pigs, and the Value of...
Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 14:49
... Stories P2P File Sharing Thanks toothpastefordinner.com Stock Market Thanks xkcd.com Elements of Wise Crowds (Surowiecki) Diversity Independence Decentralization Aggregation Bringing WOC Online ... threadless.com/submit google.com/search?q=apple flickr.com/photos/tags/apple/clusters Result Aggregation favrd.com The Heisenberg Problem flickr.com/explore/interesting/2009/03/13 flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days ... Searches Velocity Interestingness Design Matters Color & Shape Red vs Blue Putting It All Together Click! brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/click getsatisfaction.com/apple getsatisfaction.com/apple...
Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 09:49
... patterns To achieve these goals, we propose a variant of the Latent Mixture of Discriminative Experts (Ozkan et al., 2010) which takes full advantage of the wisdom of crowds Our Wisdom- LMDE model ... Wisdom- LMDE The goals of our computational model are to automatically discover the prototypical patterns of backchannel feedback and learn the dynamic between these patterns This will allow the ... ac336 count the differences in people’s reactions, and automatically learns the hidden structure among them The rest of the paper is organized as follows In Section 2, we present the wisdom acquisition...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 05:20
Tài liệu The wisdom of coaching: Essential papers in consulting psychology for a world of change pot
... to get the right coach for the EC situation, there are many other factors beside the coach that will affect the success of the coaching: the readiness of the executive, the support from the boss ... for the mutual benefit of the executive and the organization a focus on building the competence of both the executive and the organization a continual emphasis on the integrity of each member of ... implementation of these five processes that the true work of coaching takes place The first of these components can be further elaborated by an examination of Table 1.2, which presents a summary of many of...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 16:20
Over 35 Years of Reliable Investing™The Wisdom of Great Investors pot
... Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and one of the most successful investors in history; Benjamin Graham, recognized as the “Father of Value Investing” and one of the most influential figures in the investment ... bailout of hedge fund Long Term Capital Management and the Asian financial crises Investors in the beginning of the 2000s experienced the bursting of the technology and telecom bubble, 9/11 and the ... is patience They recognize that while the mood of the market may cause a stock price to fluctuate widely over the short term, over longer periods the value of the underlying business often asserts...
Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 17:20
the wisdom of insecurity - alan watts
... whether the game is worth the candle,” and whether it might not be better to turn the course of evolution in the only other possible direction—backwards, to the relative peace of the animal, the ... that they have done to improve the conditions of life, their picture of the universe seems to leave the individual without ultimate hope The price of their miracles in this world has been the ... remembering the past we can plan for the future But the ability to plan for pleasure is offset by the “ability” to dread pain and to fear the unknown Furthermore, the growth of an acute sense of the...
Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 02:05
menschel - markets, mobs & mayhem; a modern look at the madness of crowds (2002)
... Holland: Tulipmania 15 themselves the possessors of a few bulbs which nobody would buy, even though they offered them at one quarter of the sums they had paid for them The cry of distress sounded ... and that the wealthy from every part of the world would buy Dutch tulips because they were uniquely beautiful In the early days of the mania, sales took place between the end of June when the bulbs ... inadequate The pilots who flew the planes were so convinced of the inadequacy that they took to standing outside the cockpit whenever they could, to eyeball the passengers as they boarded Yet it took the...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 19:33
Báo cáo y học: "The wisdom, and madness, of crowds" pot
... have a perfect accounting of the events of the past few months of 2008 No wonder the book has never been out of print Mackay wrote to warn people of the foolishness of the collective mind His warning ... feasted the Prince of Orange and the whole court of the Stadtholder.’ By 1636, special markets for trading in tulip bulbs were established on the floor of the Stock Exchanges in Amsterdam and other ... even though they offered them at one quarter of the sums they had paid for them Many who, for a brief season, had emerged from the humbler walks of life, were cast back into their original obscurity...
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 21:20
Tapping into the Power of Text Mining
... element of the vector usually represents a word (or a group of words) of the document collection, i.e the size of the vector is defined by the number of words (or groups of words) of the complete ... from the number of clusters is the silhouette coefficient SC(P) (cf [KR90]) The main idea of the coefficient is to find out the location of a document in the space with respect to the cluster of the ... the document This may be described by the conditional distribution p(t1 , , tni |L(di )) of the ni words given the class Then the Bayesian formula yields the probability of a class given the...
Ngày tải lên: 31/08/2012, 16:46
Tài liệu The Book Of Personal Transformation - How To Use Ancient Wisdom To Create A New Life For Yourself docx
... in the truth of what is taught One of the problems with doubt is that we normally require proof of the validity of the teachings Yet the problem with this particular stance is that the proof of ... faith in the wisdom of the universe, this strong belief and desire will be the driving force in your achievements Develop, then, a strong faith in the wisdom of the universe Have trust that the universe ... focus their mind on what they have, not on what they have not 30 Although the gift they received may be small or of little value, they are thankful to have received them According to the Law of...
Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 06:15
Executive wisdom: Coaching and the emergence of virtuous leaders potx
... Executive Wisdom can be seen as a component of human behavior that transcends normal wisdom because of the requirement of scope and the inclusion of the notion of the well-being of the organization ... understood as in the realm of God, of religion and metaphysics On the other hand, there is the knowledge of the universe, of what humans can discover and comprehend through their own efforts The dialectic ... whether there is a good match between the needs of the enterprise and the capacities and accomplishments of the person being considered The success of everyone involved depends on the quality of...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Using Crowdsourcing to Improve the Evaluation of Grammatical Error Detection Systems" pdf
... whereas in the sentence “They arrived to the town” the preposition to is a confusion error (cf arrived in the town) Most work on automated correction of preposition errors, with the exception of Gamon ... sentences and removed them 510 N Mw = i N FPw = i In the above equations, N is the total number of instances, ci is the class (1 or 0) , and pi sys crowd indicates the proportion of the crowd that classified ... the utility of these weighted measures, we evaluated the LM and PERC systems on the dataset containing 923 preposition instances, against all 20 Turker judgments Figure shows a histogram of the...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 21:20