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2007-07-10

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Udi Manber im Interview.

"In terms of complexity, we are very sensitive to this, and we have projects that their sole purpose is to reduce complexity. A team may go and work for two months on a new simpler sub-algorithm. If it performs the same as the previous algorithm, but it's simpler, that will be a big win and people are encouraged to do that [...]"

"It's not just the lines of code, it's really the intuition and understanding of what it's doing. We want our engineers to have a good intuition that when they try to make some change they understand the impact intuitively."

2007-07-10-udin

James Surowiecki: The Science of Success

On Simon & Schuster's MediaPredict prediction market.

Update: It's not really S&S's prediction market, they're just partnering with MediaPredict.

2007-07-10-mepre