You'll enjoy this thread. Not quiiiite the same, but I "won" an undergraduate AI in-class competition to predict the closing price of eBay auctions. (Remember eBay? This was when dinosaurs ruled the earth and undergrads didn't have cell phones because why would you.) Algorithm:https://twitter.com/JanelleCShane/status/973637418225090560 …
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Also: <old man voice> In my day we didn't have your Nokogiri HTML-parsing newfangled nonsense. We walked to school uphill both ways while parsing strings with regular expressions and yes it sucked exactly as much as you think it probably did. </old man voice>
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Why have an algo calculate the price when the bidders are doing that already? Why hire 30 bankers and pay them millions to set the price of your company when you could just direct list? I attend Spotify’s direct listing with great interest

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I actually don't know why direct listings aren't the default. So much less drama and disappointment
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Laughed quite hard because it sounds like my past. Thanks for sharing.
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Always compare to a control group and a nocebo
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