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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The wisdom of statistically manipulated crowds
The wisdom of a crowd is often in the eye of the beholder, but most of us understand that, at its most basic level, "crowd wisdom" refers to a fairly simple phenomenon: when you ask a whole bunch of random people a question that can be answered with a number (eg, what's the population of Swaziland?) and then you add up all the answers and divide the sum by the number of people providing those answers - ie, calculate the average - you'll frequently get a close approximation of the actual answer. Indeed, it's often suggested, the crowd's average answer tends to me more accurate than an estimate from an actual expert. As the science writer Jonah Lehrer put it in a column in the Wall Street Journal on Saturday: The good news is that the wisdom of crowds exists.
TEDxSF - A Curation Of People And Ideas... - SVW
Posted by Tom Foremski - June 5, 2011 I've been to several TEDxSF events but the most recent one felt like a breakthrough event because of the mix of people and talks, plus the new venue. The event was sold out with about 650 tickets for the Yerba Buena location, a larger theater than the Academy of Sciences, where it used to be held.TEDxSF , one of the local TED conference communities, held an event Tuesday evening at the California Academy of Sciences, in the planetarium auditorium. About 350 people watched live presentations and many more were in a lounge watching the live stream of the event on monitors. The theme was courage and resilience.
Captain Paul Watson Stars In TEDxSF - SVW
the hormone of love
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I founded TEDxEast in collaboration with a wonderful committee and community. TEDxEast has become a large annual event in NYC that hosts 4 salons per year curated by TED speakers as well as a big event which hosts 1000 members of our community. Our big event will be held at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. As our community grows, we seek to offer our local community a TED-like experience in NYC. To do so we draw on the resources of NYC and highlight talent from NYC and beyond. Thanks to our partnerships with the History Channel, BBC, Canoe Ventures, Lincoln Automobiles and Goldstar we are forging new ground for our TEDx events.
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I have been remiss in attending to my blog over the last few months- forgive me. I finished my Ed.D. in May and have been traveling doing a new research/writing project on How Ideas Spread…a new website which will showcase the travel and emerging thinking in this area is on the way… I have been remiss in attending to my blog.
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down the avenue: Responding to Risk with Resourcefulness
President of CBR Global Advisors Celina Realuyo who is also an assistant professor on counter terrorism, talks to the TEDXSF audience at the California Academy of Sciences yesterday afternoon. She encourages people to set up plan of attacks for potential risk scenarios in our lives, whether it's in management or in our personal lives. Her orientation comes from serving as a former U.S. diplomat, a foreign policy maker under the Bush and Clinton Administration, and a professor of counterterrorism and national security.
Nathan Quarry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nathan Parker Quarry (born March 19, 1972) is a retired American mixed martial arts fighter who is most notable for his appearance in The Ultimate Fighter , a reality show from the Ultimate Fighting Championship , as well as co-hosting the show MMA Uncensored Live. [ edit ] Early life Nate Quarry grew up as a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses , which he later characterized as a cult that controls its members 24 hours a day. Quarry grew up in a sheltered lifestyle and did not even participate in organized sports until age 24, when he first became exposed to mixed martial arts . After a period of self-discovery, Quarry rejected his Jehovah's Witness upbringing, which caused him to become alienated from his family and former friends.
Nathan Quarry is a 9 year veteran of the pinnacle of combat sports: Mixed Martial Arts. As a fighter he holds a 7-2 Ultimate Fighting Champion record, and has been awarded many honors. Quarry grew up as a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses, a sheltered lifestyle and did not even participate in organized sports until age 24, when he first became exposed to mixed martial arts. He began to train in mixed martial arts fighting. Eventually, Quarry made his way to Team Quest, out of Gresham, Oregon, where he continued to train until mid-2007. After suffering major injuries and undergoing surgery, he wrote a book chronicling his journey back to the ring.
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I popped into the TEDxSF conference yesterday at the Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park and really enjoyed the presentations. -It will make copious use of terms such as: powerful, community, culture, creativity, innovation, engage, passion, transcend, think big, connect, connections, educate, universe... But please don't misunderstand me, I love everything about TED, the people it attracts, and the incredible distribution of groundbreaking ideas that it enables. [It's yet another feather in the already very feathery hat of Chris Anderson.] I also liked being in a largely non-geek crowd.