What projects should Manifold do for our Hackathon this Wednesday?
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The Manifold Team is doing a hackathon tomorrow (July 12).

What are some cool ideas? They should be scoped to something an engineer could complete in one day.

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Automatic arbitrage between markets. So users can create easy rules between two markets on how they want them to be arbed

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Resolution delegation

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Build your own dashboard of markets with a publicly shareable link

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Hey everyone,

I was mulling over an idea that I think could be an interesting feature for Manifold Markets. You're all probably familiar with the VIX in the stock market, which serves as a measure of volatility. What if we developed a similar index for Manifold, one that quantifies the unpredictability in our prediction markets?

Here's how I picture it working: We select a representative group of markets, possibly those with high liquidity or determined by a committee, steering clear of self-resolving markets, derivative markets, and the like. The goal is to get a set of markets that truly capture the essence of Manifold.

The "Randomness Index" itself would be designed to capture not just the individual market uncertainties, but also the correlation between them. We would use the forecasted probabilities (referred to as 'theta') from each market and assume they follow a multivariate normal distribution. The 'mu' (mean) would be the current estimated probabilities and the 'sigma' (covariance matrix) would be estimated from the historical data.

To measure the spread of this distribution, we would use the Mahalanobis distance, which gives a sense of the overall dispersion given the covariance structure. By generating a multitude of potential 'future states', we can calculate this distance for each, then summarize these distances (average, max, median, etc.) to form the "Randomness Index".

This would provide a quantitative measure of overall 'randomness' or unpredictability across our chosen markets. From a marketing perspective, it could also offer a unique feature - a real-time measure of global uncertainty, unique to Manifold. Besides, it might offer users an intriguing way to visualize and comprehend the dynamics of our platform.

I'm curious to hear what you think about this idea. Would it be something you'd be interested in exploring further?

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A way of seeing what markets you and another user agree/disagree on

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Profit explorer - see where your profit over some period/market set comes from more granularly than you can now. Filter in/out certain markets/groups, have stacked area charts, other nifty features

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Keyboard shortcuts for laptop betting

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anonymous betting (under randomly chosen pseudonym and not shown in the public user portfolio)

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Upvote/Downvote markets or upvote/downvote comments with "agree with vote?" option like EA forum, LW, etc. Add a dropdown for the sort in comments: {"best", "new", "top", "controversial"}

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Support for Ṁ loans from one user to another

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More interesting leaderboards.

Since it's a hackathon, it probably makes sense to start with what is possible to see whether it's interesting than to start with the idea for what we'd like to see on a leaderboard and work backwards, but a few ideas of the sort of things that users might like to see:

  • Short term ROI leaderboards

  • Bet of the week/month - the biggest winning 1% YES bets or 99% NO bets

  • Best winning streak - most winning bets/markets in a row (maybe excluding anything that was already over 90% in the direction you're betting in, or even only including contrarian bets where you were betting at longer than even odds)

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I want to know what caused a random spike in my profit graph.

The profit page now has a way to sort the portfoio by profit/loss in the last 24 hours. Pls extend this to work for the last hour or even better for a specific time range.

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build your own forecasting competition - award a predetermined Ṁ amount in prizes for the top predictors on leaderboard in a group of markets you care about after a set amount of time

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"Sell" button on multiple choice markets. (i.e. sell all shares in one of the questions, rather than trying to balance)

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Manifold-based dating: like OkCupid, but based on which questions you agree on.

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Fix Swipe to get truly random questions

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Random close time for markets

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Bounty/GitHub integration

Make a new combined market that meets the need for all the "Resolves to poll" markets—a combined Bet-then-Poll-in-one kind of thing.

Sorting of questions based on closing date

Overview like positions on a bet, but with absolute and with relative profit.

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