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@owdy Sep 5, 2016, 11:40 PM UTC

A week of PROMOTION- How many use it? How profitable is it? What's the right amount?

http://i.imgur.com/M4id0pC.gif ### It's been already a week since the new promotion feature was added, so I thought I'd look at some of the early data and share it with you guys. https://i.imgur.com/…

47 upvotes 8 replies $33.41
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@owdy Sep 4, 2016, 9:16 PM UTC

Using walls as mirrors - Spatial light modulators, Genetic algorithms and science

During the summer I had the opportunity to attend a talk by Professor Yaron Silberberg, an Israeli physicist at the Weizmann Institute. He’s made considerable contributions in nonlinear optics, integ…

47 upvotes 3 replies $11.88
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@owdy Aug 31, 2016, 3:46 AM UTC

Post promotion censorship exploit

Let me first start by saying that I fully support the new promotion feature, but that additional thinking might be needed with regards to its synergy with the current upvote/flagging system. ### The…

17 upvotes 5 replies $0.03
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@owdy Aug 28, 2016, 3:47 PM UTC

Color for the color blind - The science behind the EnChroma glasses

Our senses are fascinating. They’re our window to the world and our means to perceive reality and try to understand it. For the most part, the information we get from the outside world seem to be tel…

78 upvotes 7 replies $18.09
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@owdy Aug 14, 2016, 12:52 AM UTC

Misaligned incentives: How voting on GOOD content makes me LOSE curation rewards

So I was just replying to a comment on @dan's most recent post and I was shocked (again) at how easily predictable top content is. Believe me, it isn't because it repeatedly create superior content.…

20 upvotes 12 replies $0.02
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@owdy Aug 9, 2016, 10:05 PM UTC

Scalability, Content Quality and Centralization - An open discussion on an incentivized downvote system

### With the influx of new users in the past month, it has become progressively more difficult for new content to be seen by curators of significant weight. Some of it is to be expected: with growing…

79 upvotes 27 replies $6.79
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@owdy Aug 1, 2016, 10:44 PM UTC

Steemit analysis #3 - Upvotes, lots of them : How understanding the whales' upvoting cycles can increase your expected payout

If you're like me you already have a busy schedule. Now that Steemit has taken over your life, you struggle to find a balance between posting regularly and living a healthy lifestyle, away from your…

28 upvotes 11 replies $0.00
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@owdy Jul 28, 2016, 11:07 PM UTC

Steemit analysis #2 - Understanding how to increase your exposure using Steemit data

Hello Steemit, ### If you're interested in having an edge when posting to increase your chances of having a trending post, read on! I was interested in analyzing the number of posts created at any gi…

29 upvotes 4 replies $0.49
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@owdy Jul 25, 2016, 3:20 AM UTC

List of top quality posters on Steemit - Quick analysis of those worth following and upvoting

Hello Steemit! Here's a list of the top 30 users with the highest "Content Quality Score", defined as the average total payout value (in SBD) per post, considering at most each user's 20 most recent…

38 upvotes 22 replies $0.56
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@owdy Jul 13, 2016, 6:01 AM UTC

Just a reminder to be careful in the cryptocurrency world

Since there are a lot of newcomers for which this is their first introduction to cryptocurrencies: DON'T leave your STEEM or other cryptocurrency on a centralized exchange for too long, problems do h…

39 upvotes 3 replies $0.84