Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Outcome assessment

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This idea from Dean Dad is only going to work with an extremely objective metric.  It works fine for sales or time in a race, but I think th...
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

A perspective on Ayn Rand

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From XKCD : I had a hard time with Ayn Rand because I found myself enthusiastically agreeing with the first 90% of every sentence, but get...

Context

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Context can really matter in terms of what we consider to be virtuous behavior: So there it is: the difference between a stay-home mother ...
Sunday, April 29, 2012

Sure it saved us twenty billion, but it sounds funny

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I was very pleased to read this report (via  Mr. Salmon ,) in the Washington Post : Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) believes it is time the sex ...
Saturday, April 28, 2012

Organizational strategy

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Brad DeLong: The strategy that Berkeley has settled on is to seek to produce the funding stream necessary to maintain a great University b...

On the tech beat

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Lots of interesting technology stories out that I ought to be blogging about, most via Felix Salmon. Salmon examines the career of "...
Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Is this really the basic lesson of economics?

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Frances Woolley: The basic lesson of economics is that people - including governments - aren't stupid. If it was possible to generate ...
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Can you plagiarize folklore?

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[the following is a follow-up of sorts to this earlier post on plagiarism.] You can certainly steal the wording, perhaps the narrative stru...
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Monday, April 23, 2012

What I'm currently blogging about in some alternate reality

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Via Andrew Gelman , Gary Rubinstein digs through NYC's data dump and produces a series of interesting posts. If you can't read the w...
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Saturday, April 21, 2012

Like complaining about saucy language in Sodom and Gomorrah

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Here's an idea for a novel: in a dystopian future/alternate history, the country is governed by a totalitarian central government that ...
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Job cuts in science

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From Alyssa : . . . last week, the Government of Canada announced that  thousands of public service jobs will be cut . This includes a 10...

Derivative originality -- the paradox of Harry Potter

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Another lemma post (but at least it's the last in the series) in support of a longer piece I'm working on. The topic of that one is ...
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Friday, April 20, 2012

Quote of the week

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From NPR : "Blowing up carcasses is a little bit of an inexact science."

Out of town

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I will be at a conference for the next four days.  Posting may be lighter than usual.

Is working through school still a viable plan?

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Prices have risen for education in the past thirty years : Representative Foxx would have paid $279 for the academic year—about $2,140 tod...
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