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The culture that is Germany (sausage vending machine edition)
Hat tip: DanBale (via reddit).
Pop Quiz (game theory edition)
The image above (courtesy of Matt H. Evans) contains four colorful quadrants depicting the basic elements of game theory, a mathematical approach to human behavior. Which one of these quadrants, however, is redundant?
Office Art (“Post-it” edition)
In case you’re wondering, you can order black Post-its here. Hat tip: Wall_Rat.
Annals of deception (world wide web edition)
Posted in Deception, Questions Rarely Asked, Web/Tech
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Game of Chicken (cult classic edition)
Can we model politics, litigation, and other forms of competition as games of chicken?
Prisoner’s dilemma T-shirts
Which one should we get?
Where did all the video stores go?
Joseph Schumpeter is famous among historians for his “creative destruction” theory of modern capitalism. How about a “destructive creation” theory of art? Via kottke, an artist pretending to be a Parisian hipster named “Stan”–who only watches modern films and TV series on … Continue reading
Why isn’t April 9 a National Holiday?
On this day (April 9) in 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee formally surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant after the remnants of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia were decisively defeated at the Battle of Appomattox Court House by … Continue reading
Model of North American politics (2 x 2 matrix edition)
This simple model might be wrong, but is it useful? (Via Paul Krugman.)
prior probability 