September 2009
34 posts
movie mashups - the next generation →
“Your free lunch will soon be over. What can you do about it? What are you doing...”
– The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software
WatchThe Last Lecture (Lumalin Productions)
“The end of 2008 brought us the tabloid headline, Scan Scandal Hits Social...”
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The Neurocritic: Voodoo Correlations in Social Neuroscience
“I believe that tablogging is inevitable if you adopt the blog format, a platform...”
– Rise of the Tablog → Put Things Off
Some Thoughts on the State of Macro, by N.... →
Macroeconomists don’t ignore heterogeneity.
Macroeconomists don’t ignore frictions.
Macroeconomic modeling doesn’t ignore bounded rationality.
Macroeconomic models do incorporate a role for government interventions.
Macroeconomists use both calibration and econometrics.
There is no freshwater/saltwater divide – now.
These researchers have been much more interested in the...
“Even a god has human needs, if he resides in a living body.”
– Pseudopod 150: Break the Vessel
“But despite this tantalising beauty, Domokos and Várkonyi’s attempts to...”
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The story of the Gömböc
“Television has a tendency to absorb feelings faster than it assimilates facts.”
– New Fall TV Series Tackle Hard Economic Times, Sideways - NYTimes.com (via merlin)
“If you start with invalid assumptions, you are liable to get interesting...”
– Talk:The City on the Edge of Forever - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Yes, a catchphrase would solve everything. As we were working on this, Ed called...”
– ME TALK PRESIDENTIAL ONE DAY: GQ Features on men.style.com
“In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is no such thing as atheism....”
– This is water - David Foster Wallace
“No one should ever work.
Work is the source of nearly all the misery in...”
– Bob Black, “The abolition of work”
(foto: svenwerk@flickr)
Microfoundations and macroproblems: my take on the... →
“At the very least, the neoclassical theory of general equilibrium establishes...”
– Lee Smolin, Time and symmetry…
“Items removed from the house included baby carriages, a doll carriage, rusted...”
– Collyer brothers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“More mysterious is the entry for a book called The Mosaic Navigator: The...”
– Google’s Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
“As you get older, your brain cells will calcify and die if they are not...”
– checklist for life practicalities? | Ask Metafilter