the view from the tower the wisdom of crowds
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...
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Design for the Wisdom of Crowds
... Stories P2P File Sharing Thanks toothpastefordinner.com Stock Market Thanks xkcd.com Elements of Wise Crowds (Surowiecki) Diversity Independence Decentralization Aggregation Bringing WOC Online ... amazon.com/product-reviews/B000BNI90Y Implicit vs Explicit Feedback Explicit Feedback: Voting & Rating Explicit Feedback: Voting & Rating Implicit Feedback Implicit Feedback Pageviews Searches Velocity ... 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...
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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 ... protected from the elements on their way from their point of departure to their ultimate destination (Hendrickson, 1987) Over the centuries, the term itself traveled along several roads of use, from ... 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...
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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...
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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 ... remove the body from an uncomfortable chair, but you cannot move it from the sensation of a chair The notion of a separate thinker, of an “I” distinct from the experience, comes from memory and from ... opinions, and theories is the remotest of all possibilities from the modern mind If such a point of view exists, it can only be in the vacant brain of a moron We suffer from the delusion that the entire...
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menschel - markets, mobs & mayhem; a modern look at the madness of crowds (2002)
... 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 ... well have struck the White House or the Capitol save for the bravery of the passengers on United Airlines Flight 93—are only the tip of the iceberg From everything I read and hear, the extremists ... 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...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Modeling Wisdom of Crowds Using Latent Mixture of Discriminative Experts" docx
... 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...
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Báo cáo y học: " Polysaccharides from the root of Angelica sinensis protect bone marrow and gastrointestinal tissues against the cytotoxicity of cyclophosphamide in mice
... action of CY in the stomach in this study was due to the activation of p53 and therefore leading to the suppression of the c-Myc/ODC pathway All these findings could explain the mechanism of CY ... drug administration This study was conducted with the consent of the Committee on the Use of Live Animals in Teaching and Research of the University of Hong Kong Male ICR mice (weighing 25–30 g) ... the blood supply and proliferating cell number in both the gastric and duodenal mucosae Subcutaneous administration of AP at the dose of mg/kg daily significantly promoted the recovery rate of...
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Flipside II: From the Plains of Metamor
... the sound of a strange, grating voice "Welcome to the Conquest! Before you lay the Valley of Mexico and the island/city of Tenochtitlan; the jewel of the New World!" Surprised by the voice, the ... continued their flight across the water The rhythms of drums, the blare of horns and conch shells, and the firing of musket and cannon intermingled to rake their senses But when they reached the city ... wind currents down the side of the mountain When they reached the valley floor and neared the shoreline of the lake, a giant clamor caught his attention The water surrounding the city was literally...
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Certain issues from the perspective of applying the Communicative Language Teaching to the teaching of oral English in HaUI
... wants to read rather than their real feelings Moreover, the number of the subjects is small which may influence the implications of the thesis to some extent The results of the thesis would be ... only 14% of the teachers said they 'use it regularly' when 50% of them said they 'never tried' it It seems that these 50% of the teachers were not aware of or comfortable in the use of internet ... the effects Then according to the theories of CLT, some suggestions are put forward, which are relevant to the application of CLT Aims of the study This research investigates the reality of the...
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RESEARCH ON THE CHANGE OF 2-AP AND OTHER VOLATILE COMPOUNDS IN PROCESSING BUN FROM RICE
... on 20g of brown rice with dichloromethane as solvent and collidine as internal standard Duration of extraction was 30 minutes from apparition of the first drop of water in the bottom of the condensed ... 6162 exposed the peak 2-AP at the Rt 9.678 minute 734 Research on the Change of 2-AP and Other Volatile Compounds in Processing Bun from Rice 3.4 Investigating the changes of 2-AP and other volatile ... Quantification of 2-AP in pandan leaf: Fig System of the SPME extraction 732 Content of - AP in pandan leaf extracted by SDE was calculated as follows: Research on the Change of 2-AP and Other Volatile...
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Comparison of Methods for the Extraction of Bioflocculants from Activated Sludge
... of the UV-absorbing peak indicated it was composed mainly of nucleic acid In the profile of the NaOH-extracted polymer (B), the elution volume (80 ml) of saccharide corresponded to that of the ... composed mainly of protein, was unexpected Figure shows the effect of concentration of the NaOH-extracted polymer (2.5 to 20 ppm) on activity in the presence of mM calcium ions The activity correlated ... compared to the other methods The SDS-extracted polymer included a small amount of material other than protein Furthermore, the steaming- and washing-extracted polymers contained large amounts of phosphorus...
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Removal of arsenic from synthetic groundwater by adsorption using the combination of laterite and ironmodified activated carbon
... is also possible to realize that the longer the portion of AC-Fe, the higher the adsorbent cost Therefore, optimizing the AC-Fe portion in the column is one of the key factors for a feasible arsenic ... ratio, the value of V/WACFe (V, the volume of drinkable water produced from the start using adsorbents until breakthrough / WACFe, the weight of AC-Fe in the column) was calculated and found that the ... to describe the process kinetics of adsorption From equation (1), the use of n=1 from calculation and the assumption in section 3.1 (adsorption equilibrium), gives the overall rate of adsorption/de-sorption...
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The phenomenon of evaporative cooling from a humid surface as an alternative method for air-conditioning
... temperature through the evaporation of sweat from the skin, the use of cooling towers or evaporative condensers, the cooling of pools by the evaporation of the water, etc Furthermore, it was the most widespread ... Group of the University of Valladolid History of evaporative cooling Many examples of the application of the phenomenon of evaporative cooling can be found, such as the metabolic regulation of the ... the outerwall of the bricks into that air The cooling capacity of the device depends on the amount of evaporated water from the humid surface into the air Thus, the mechanisms of masstransfer...
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A View of the History of Biochemical Engineering
... gallons per day of ethanol, utilizing Saccharomyces for the process (Harris 1946) This yield of 50 gallons per ton of wood was approximately 50% of the theoretical yield The indicated loss of sugars ... renewed interest in the conversion of biomass into fuels and chemicals In 1978, the first of a series of conferences on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals A View of The History of Biochemical Engineering ... of engineering research and development work over the years In the late 1960s and early 1970s, there was a worldwide perception of the possible shortage of food to feed the world population The...
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A STUDY ON THE TRANSLATION OF ACCOUNTING TERMS FROM ENGLISH INTO VIETNAMESE
... of which is a debit and the other of which is a credit of the same amount II.ACRONYMS IN ACCOUNTING TERMS Acronyms are words formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name They ... translate the meaning of the original in such a way that the TL wording will trigger the same impact on the TC audience as the original wording did upon the ST audience They argue that 'Frequently, the ... produce the same effect on the readership of translation as was obtained on the readership of the original” He also sees equivalence effect as the desirable result rather than the aim of any translation...
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A STUDY ON THE TRANSLATION OF WEATHER TERMS FROM ENGLISH INTO VIETNAMESE
... Translation is the interpretation of the meaning of a text in one language (the source text) and the production in another language of equivalent text (the target text) that communicates the same message ... to the intentions and the text reality of the SL writer 2.4 Semantic translation It differs from faithful translation only in as far as it must take more account of the aesthetic value of the ... translation This reproduces the matter without the manner, or the content without the form of the original, but the translator just transmit meanings of the SL in others expression Usually, it...
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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...
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