mAd-topo
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mAd-topo is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between February 02, 2026 and March 16, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “mAd-topo, Haiku, PlankFlank, and Andrew Clough, who placed 2nd through 5th”; “mAd-topo is a statistics PhD working on Bayesian methods”. It most often appears alongside 1790, 2026 contest, ACX.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: February 02, 2026
- Last seen: March 16, 2026
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Related Pages
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- 1790 (1 shared issues)
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- 2026 contest (1 shared issues)
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- ACX (1 shared issues)
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- Andrew Clough (1 shared issues)
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- Astralcodexten Com (1 shared issues)
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- Astralcodexten Com (1 shared issues)
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- Caral (1 shared issues)
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- Daily Show (1 shared issues)
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- EA organizations (1 shared issues)
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- Forecasting Research Institute (1 shared issues)
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- GreeneiBot2 (1 shared issues)
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- Haiku (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
mAd-topo, Haiku, PlankFlank, and Andrew Clough, who placed 2nd through 5th, respectively. I don’t know these people, but they can email me (scott[at]slatestarcodex[dot]com) if they want me to profile them or signal-boost their work on a future Open Thread.
1: Another ACX Forecasting Contest winner has come forth and revealed themselves. mAd-topo is a statistics PhD working on Bayesian methods. He's looking for an academic job; if you are hiring, read more about him here. He also asks that any "law nerd" who reads this bet on his prediction markets about an upcoming Italian referendum , which will help him cast an informed vote next Sunday.