Monday, May 31, 2010

Robert Samuelson would not make a good statistician

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Robert Samuelson is taking considerable heat for this column in the Washington Post complaining about the way we measure poverty. Dean Bak...
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Network TV -- now entering their fourth decade on death's door

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Brian over at Ultrasonic Remote sends this latest obituary for network television based on this: YouTube’s viewership now exceeds that of ...

The economics of rock and roll part III -- Gimme (tax) Shelter

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From APR's Marketplace : The image may be rebellious and unkempt, but the reality is that the Rolling Stones are very smart when it co...

The economics of rock and roll part II -- quality control and brown M&Ms

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This one has been passed around a lot but it's a nice example of a clever solution to a business problem and it bears repeating. From Sn...
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The economics of rock and roll

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Tyler Cowen passes on the following sharp observation from Mick Jagger on the upheavals in the music industry: ...people only made money o...

Elegance and Economics -- a choice comment from Paul Krugman

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From " How did Economists Get It So Wrong? " (September 2nd, 2009): Few economists saw our current crisis coming, but this predict...
Sunday, May 30, 2010

Distributed computing

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In medical research, data privacy is paramount. So it is unlikely that we'll be taking advantage of things like cloud computing anytim...
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Friday, May 28, 2010

"How is model-based macroeconomic forecasting possible?"

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There's an interesting discussion of economic forecasting over at Worthwhile Canadian Initiative. The post and the responses raise some...

"Baby Steps to New Life-Forms"

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The latest from Olivia Judson.

What Auteur Theory and Freshwater Economics have in common

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(the first draft is the dominant genre of the internet. Between the roughness of this essay and my extensive ignorance of criticism and econ...
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Journal Reviewing

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How often do you review? In the latest early releases from the American Journaol of Epidemiology, the editors discuss the concern of author...
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Recursion humor

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I think Mr. Gardner would have appreciated this. From Stanley Stories :

One less giant

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Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914 – May 22, 2010)

From Mark Thoma, two links and a damned good observation

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First Thoma links to this: How to prevent huge teacher layoffs, by Christina D. Romer, Commentary, Washington Post : The emergency spendin...
Thursday, May 27, 2010

DIY-U

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In a recent post, Dead Dad wrote about DIY-U . And he's right -- most academic training (especially in areas like Epidemiology) benefit...