Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Uses Games To See the Future 134
parallel_prankster writes "Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a professor of politics at New York University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in California. In his new book, The Predictioneer (The Predictioneer's Game in the US), he describes a computer model based on game theory which he — and others — claim can predict the future with remarkable accuracy. The website also has a game page where he provides an online version of the game and information on how to play." The (semi-paywalled; may need to register) New Scientist has a story on de Mesquita, too; a snippet: "Over the past 30 years, Bueno de Mesquita has made thousands of predictions about hundreds of issues from geopolitics to personal problems. Overall, he claims, his hit rate is about 90 per cent."
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita predicted this first post. (Score:1, Funny)
..................what an amazing individual!
If he isn't already rich then he's lying (Score:5, Funny)
Already been done. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:If he isn't already rich then he's lying (Score:5, Funny)
You used 'lose' instead of 'loose' when the correct word is 'lose'. Is the interweb broken? Next we will see someone in a car analogy slowing the vehicle by applying the 'brakes'.
Re:If he isn't already rich then he's lying (Score:2, Funny)
Re:If he isn't already rich then he's lying (Score:3, Funny)
Re:If he isn't already rich then he's lying (Score:1, Funny)
What I don't like about him is that he manipulates (read the book).
Nice try, prof. de Mesquita, but we know about sarcasm.
Re:Irrelevent - English is dead (Score:2, Funny)
Oh, a kingdom for the option to mod a post ironic, no matter how irrelevant it may be.
Re:Irrelevent - English is dead (Score:1, Funny)
If not Him, then who?
or Hoo!