Friday, November 28, 2014

A recent exchange I had with my iPhone

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You know those ads where people have those amazing Turing-certified conversations with Siri. Here is what one of my recen...
Thursday, November 27, 2014

"As God as my witness..." is my second favorite Thanksgiving episode line [Repost]

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If you watch this and you could swear you remember Johnny and Mr. Carlson discussing Pink Floyd, you're not imagining things. Hulu u...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

It's not a question of being too positive or negative but of being wrong in both directions

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Given some recent discussions, I perhaps ought to go back and clarify my position on Google's driverless cars. The Google part is import...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

New side project up at Amazon.

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A few years ago, I developed this checkers variant based on non-transitive relationships to help my students get some experience working wit...

This isn't about Ferguson, but it may be the most relevant thing you'll read on the subject.

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This is an excellent time to go back and reread " Against Law, For Order " by Mike Konczal. Since this essay appeared in April of ...

More bad behavior from your friendly neighborhood cable company

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There's another flight going on between Viacom and a cable provider. Suddenlink, a major provider for much of the middle of the country,...
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 ...