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I think its important to understand that Silicon Valley practices are not representative of societal trends. The examples the author uses are about going to a welfare office and in…

I actually dont think you could do that because teams need to randomize amongst plays or else defenses would crush them. That is one of the coolest (in my opinion) parts about foot…

Witholding the top bid (except to those who are interested) means buyers offer what they think the item is worth - which could be a lot more than top bid + 1$. That's not true. I'm…

Hmmm... I have no proof for what I'm about to say but here it is anyway. The only information that bidders will practically care about is the current top bid. So the information th…

Out of curiosity, how much thought have you put into the auction format? Is there an underlying theoretical model in use? Allowing me to buy information on the auction is an intere…

I'm not sure machine learning algorithms are the right approach. Crowd curation mechanisms (i.e. the upvote/downvote systems but one could imagine other systems) have the advantage…

That depends on field. In most areas of computer science, conferences are more important than journals (journals generally just publish extended conference papers).