Monday, November 24, 2014

Megan and Mark are in synch

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This is Joseph. As a follow-up to Mark's post , Megan McArdle has this great point : If the left-wing MSM is indeed biased against y...
Friday, November 21, 2014

Thoughts on the coming storm

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From a text exchange I had on election night The press has gone from "The Republicans are the responsible party" To "Bot...
Thursday, November 20, 2014

Other than stem cells...

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What are the most notable examples of regulation holding back new technology? There has been a lots of talk recently about encouraging innov...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

"Duct tape and string"

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Or as we used say back in the hills, spit and bailing wire. From James Kwak's recent piece on United Airlines : There are two lesson...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

A subtle issue with standardized tests

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This is Joseph. Dean Dad has a nice piece on assessment .  A part of it that jumped out was: Johnson’s argument is subtle enough that m...
Monday, November 17, 2014

James Boyle's devastating take down of Robert Bork

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What makes this piece so effective is Boyle's refusal to dismiss Bork as a crank or a charlatan. Boyle instead insists on treating Bork...
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Saturday, November 15, 2014

One of these days I'm going to do a post on genres as fitness landscapes

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In the meantime, here's a completely unexpected but surprisingly effective reworking.
Friday, November 14, 2014

What do stock buyback actually do?

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Barry Ritholtz passes along an interesting thought from Aswath Damodaran, a professor at New York University. Before a company calls for ...
Thursday, November 13, 2014

Fixing Common Core (or at least a small part thereof) over at the teaching blog

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With a nod to David Coleman, last week I did a post called " Deconstructing Common Core " focusing on the homework problems going ...

James Kwak does a valuable service...

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...and states the obvious . The value of a company is supposed to be the discounted present value of its expected future cash flows. Actua...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Annals of heroic inference

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This is Joseph. Via Andrew Gelman , we get this gem : One consequence of this is that the number of respondents who report that they are...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

"The unbookable lesson"

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I've got a new post up at the teaching blog about the differences in live presentation and other educational media. Check it out if tha...
Monday, November 10, 2014

"I'm sorry, the card says 'MOOPS'.”

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Given that we are on the verge of deciding the fate of major policy initiatives based on typos , this seems sadly appropriate.

Another side to the driverless car discussion

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For years now, there have been two basic narratives when it came autonomous cars. The first is what I've called the ddulite version: dr...
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Saturday, November 8, 2014

The Good Wife makes some really interesting musical choices

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... And, frankly, I just look for an excuse link to any piece of music that gets stuck in my head.