Friday, August 31, 2018

Friday Pop Culture Corner

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John P. Marquand, author of both respected literary novels and the popular Mr. Moto thrillers was said to use those lighter adventure storie...
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Thursday, August 30, 2018

Back on the Musk beat -- actually, the Augean stables part is rather apt

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One of the perks of following the recent news around Elon Musk and Tesla motors is the opportunity to observe in detail the performance of a...
Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Pre-existing conditions and medical care

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This is Joseph. We have talked a few times about the issues with medical insurance.  We live in a world where, unfortunately, we all age a...
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Neil Simon (July 4, 1927 – August 26, 2018) Updated

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Some of Simon's funniest work came early in his career. Posted this haste. Left out some stuff. Still in haste, but he...
Monday, August 27, 2018

Don't feel bad if you haven't heard of Ecclesia College (Pat Boone didn't remember it and he's on their board.) -- UPDATED

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Ecclesia College appears to have been the Trump University of Bible colleges. The graduation rates and academic standards would have embarr...
Friday, August 24, 2018

Daycares and zoning

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This is Joseph This article points out the problem with urban development and the pressures involved : Neighborhood residents sparred ...
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Thursday, August 23, 2018

Hark the Herald Reporters Sing – – another magical heuristics post

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I was reading yet another piece talking about how some Silicon Valley/Silicon Beach company was about to do some impossible thing. As I was...
Wednesday, August 22, 2018

The complicated statistics and conflicting objectives of video recommendation algorithms

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What is the objective of the algorithm and how do we know if it's achieving that goal? Well, that depends. The things we would really li...
Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Codetermination

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This is Joseph The new proposal by Elizabeth Warren to introduce codetermination to the United States has certainly engendered a lot of d...
Monday, August 20, 2018

A few points to remember about the recent (ongoing?) Meltdown of Elon Musk.

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[If you haven't been keeping up with the story, here's a good write-up from the superior Times.] 1. First off, we all know that...
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Friday, August 17, 2018

Shows with legs – – more background on the Netflix thread (and an excuse for a Friday post of MeTV promos)

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[corrected -- Dragon hears "nonrival" as "nonviable"] I've probably spent too much time on this thread already, b...
Thursday, August 16, 2018

Trump and testifying

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This is Joseph There have been a lot of calls for president Trump to testify about his actions in office,  for some pretty understandable...
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Revisiting the Big Swinging Check Syndrome

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From W ikipedia Season Episodes Originally aired Nielsen ratings First aired Last aired Rank Average viewers (millions) 1 22 September ...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

What does Netflix really want? Look at the content quadrants

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To make sense of the company's approach toward original content, it is useful to think in terms of long-term IP value vs the hype-genic,...
Monday, August 13, 2018

"Hype is the fog of business" or "you should've known something was up when Netflix bought the billboard company"

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How do you decide if a business scenario is viable? What heuristics do you use? How do you form your informal informative priors? How do ...