Augur Project, a open decentralised prediction platform

Name: Augur Project, a open decentralised prediction platform
Start: 2015-09-30T19:00:00+02:00
End: 2015-09-30T22:00:00+02:00
Location: Geekshubs

Hosted By

Angel R. M. y David B.

Augur Project, a open decentralised prediction platform

Detalles

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¡Hola JavaScripters!

Anunciamos el séptimo meetup de ValenciaJS. ¡El primero después de las vacaciones! Además, ¡este día 25 se harán 6 meses de vida de la comunidad!

Se llevará a cabo el miércoles 30 de Septiembre a las 19:00. El anfitrión de este evento será Geekshubs (Avenida Cataluña, 11). ¡no te olvides de hacer RSVP rápido!, y recuerda quitarlo si al final no podrás asistir.

We announce our seventh ValenciaJS meetup. It will be held the next wednesday 30 of September. In addition, the 25th will be 6 months of age of the community!

It will be the Wednesday 30 of September. Our host will be Geekshubs (Avenida Cataluña, 11). Don't forget to RSVP quickly!, and remember to remove your reservation if you are not going to come.

Esta vez será un poco distinto. Se hará una sola charla que durará sobre una hora. Luego nos iremos a tomar unas cervezas y disfrutas de los últimos momentos del verano.

This time it will be a bit different. There will be just a talk that will last about an hour. After the talk we will go for beers and enjoy the last moments of summer in Valencia.

¡You can loot at his github!
https://github.com/AugurProject/augur

Agenda

18:50hrs Arrival of the participants
19:00hrs Augur Project, a open decentralised prediction platform (english)
20:00-20:30hrs Beers and Networking

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Talk Summary

The talk will be an overview of Augur, with some detail toward the end about the programming framework (which involves Python, a custom-made/Ethereum-created variant called Serpent, react.js and distributed networking).

What is Augur?

The Augur Project aims to leverage the "Wisdom of the Crowd" to become the world's "Early Warning System for Everything." We are building the world's first global, open, decentralised prediction market platform where anyone, anywhere can create prediction markets and speculate on them and where the rest of us can easily monitor that speculation to get a clearer sense of where things are going -- which big events of interest, that matter most to us, are likely or 1 unlikely to happen.

Too many of the surveys, polls, experts and other mass media we currently rely on to get a sense of where things are going and to make good judgements about the right course of action are contaminated by “noise” — by bias, ego, error, flawed methods, ideology, groupthink, habit, inertia, political correctness, taboo, vested interests, ulterior motives, fragmentation, deception, intimidation, cults of celebrity, cliques of punditry, flat-out ignorance, inaccuracy and random fluff. "Experts" are often wrong – sometimes catastrophically so. Imagine a better Early Warning System – for Everything – that tapped into the collective intelligence and awareness of Humanity. Imagine a virtual Crystal Ball that pooled our collective knowledge and even pooled our biases so that most of those biases canceled each other out. Imagine an easy to read Weather Report that's about a lot more than just the weather.

That's what Augur endeavors to become based on the the fundamentally simple premise that a thousands of minds are better than one.

About Perry

Perry worked as an economics correspondent for the Financial Times, Fortune and Investors Business Daily after majoring in economics at Harvard. He is a fan of leading indicators and of "big data" generally, long before it was buzzworded. Before the 2007 crash, he uncovered heavy insider selling by homebuilder executives, used futures markets to gauge the surprising extent of Wall Street's dependence on the Fed, was first to report the Fed's formal brainstorming over unconventional stimulus options and how the U.S. government's future financial challenges were massively underestimated. He developed regressions to assess which nations might outperform or underperform going forward based on which were "underpriced" or "overpriced." He manages various special projects for Augur and the Forecast Foundation.