January 2010
77 posts
Underwater and That Social Trust Thing « ... →
“My late colleague Evsey Domar, who was, among other things, a student of the...”
– Hedging America | The New Republic
“Like so much else in our technology-rich and innovation-poor modern world, chess...”
– The Chess Master and the Computer - The New York Review of Books
“Eleven years later I narrowly defeated the supercomputer Deep Blue in a match....”
– The Chess Master and the Computer - The New York Review of Books
“In a quality product, the incremental comfort value of thread counts over 300 is...”
– megapixels? Linenplace - The Truth About Thread Count
Mathematics is not (only) a language « Republic of... →
“Timothy Geither and Larry Summers, by transferring money from taxpayers to the...”
– winterspeak.com: Scott Brown vs Timothy Geithner
The theremin is a perfect instrument: it plays all... →
“A mashup of “Back to the Future” and “Speed”
“You built a Time Machine? Out...”
– Ironic Sans: Remaindered Ideas Part III
“Suburbanites may not yet be conscious of the anti-suburban stance of the Obama...”
– The War Against Suburbia — The American, A Magazine of Ideas
WatchWe procrastinate when we’ve forgotten who we are (Merlin Mann)
“Does a concert hall ask to be next to an opera house? Can the two feed on one...”
– RUDI: Bookshelf: Classics: Christopher Alexander: A city is not a tree, part 2
Barack Obama – Papa in Chief →
“The president’s methods are easier to understand if you look less to Rahm Emanuel and more to Sasha and Malia”
“Earthquakes don’t kill people,” says John Mutter, a seismologist and...”
– After the Destruction: What Will It Take to Rebuild Haiti? - The Haiti Earthquake - TIME
“Just try to image a politician today saying that Aeschylus was his favorite...”
– The Urbanophile » Blog Archive » An Odd Occurrence
“You can tell that I want you to stop and think about stock here. I feel like we...”
– Stock and flow « Snarkmarket
“It’s a totally legit news story for CNN or anyone else (we’ll get to NBC in a...”
– Marc Cooper, CNN In Haiti : Disaster Porn? (via soupsoup)
“Would you record your life—all of it—for posterity? That’s what some...”
– Lifeblogging: Is a virtual brain good for the real one?
“For how long will we pretend that Haiti still has a real government?”
– Marginal Revolution: Thai-Cambodia refugee camps, 1975-1999
First-Person Tetris →
Over the past nine years, more US military... →
“There is a popular conception that stocks are less risky in the long run than in...”
– Remarks on Safe Assets, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Better yet, go to Cuba and teach macroeconomics. Watch the looks on the faces of...”
– Worthwhile Canadian Initiative: AD, AS, Y, Output Gaps, Cuba, Monopolistic Competition, and Recalculation
China: Bloggers’ Reviews of Avatar →
Global Voices Online » China: Bloggers’ Reviews... →
“A genius has three abilities, which are actually the union of amateur and...”
– The Last Psychiatrist: The Difference Between An Amateur, A Scientist, And A Genius
“If Chinese people are being nudged into developing western style diseases...”
– The Last Psychiatrist: Everyone Goes Crazy In A Different Way, As Long As That Way Is The Same
“Ultimate borrowers want to borrow to finance assets that are: long, illiquid,...”
– Worthwhile Canadian Initiative: Finance as Magic
“I love this story about Bill Gates: Some years ago, when the company he founded,...”
– Gapingvoid
“University of Michigan law professor Richard D. Friedman discovered that Monday...”
– Supreme Court Justices, law professor play with words - washingtonpost.com (via @nealrichter)
“One of the main economic villains before the crisis was the presence of large...”
– Ricardo Caballero, The “Other” Imbalance and the Financial Crisis (2009) [pdf]