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“You and Your Research”
That is the title of this thought-provoking talk given by Richard Hamming at Bell Labs on 7 March 1986. Among my favorite sentences from Dr. Hamming’s great talk is this one: “If you don’t work on an important problem, it’s unlikely you’ll … Continue reading
Hobby Lobby Case, Part 4
This post marks our fourth foray into the important case of Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., which will be argued before the US Supreme Court on 25 March 2014. Anne Tucker, a law professor at Georgia State University, recently explored … Continue reading
Constitutional dataset
Check out this comprehensive constitutional dataset at the Comparative Constitutions Project or CCP. In the meantime, props go (once again) to economist extraordinaire Alex Tabarrok for bringing the CCP to our attention in his recent post “Constitutions Quantified.” Alex’s excellent post sums up the constitutional … Continue reading
Undiluted Hocus-Pocus
That is the title of Martin Gardner’s autobiography. Mr Gardner, who wrote the popular Mathematical Games column for Scientific American for 25 years, is one of our intellectual heroes and role models. Here are three of our favorite excerpts from his last book: 1. … Continue reading
A natural experiment
The City Council of St. Petersburg, the sprawling city where the Tampa Bay Rays play during the regular season, voted 6-2 yesterday to discontinue the use of red-light cameras. (There are a total of 22 red-light cameras at ten intersections … Continue reading
Personal Note: Moving to Toronto
Originally posted on A Fine Theorem:
Before discussing a lovely application of High Micro Theory to a long-standing debate in macro in a post coming right behind this one, a personal note: starting this summer, I am joining the Strategy…
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Poetic Turing Test
Last week, we brought to your attention arXiv vs. snarXiv, a kind of Turing Test for people into theoretical physics. This week, again via Tyler Cowen (Master of the Internet), we discovered a fun website that specializes in computer-generated poetry. The website, botpoet.com, presents … Continue reading
Ocean Currents Map
Credit: NASA Visualization Explorer
This is what hypocrisy looks like …
From US Secretary of State John Kerry’s comments on 2 March 2014 on the CBS News show “Face the Nation”: Well, it’s an incredible act of aggression. It is really a stunning willful choice by president Putin to invade another country. Russia is in … Continue reading
Law = Politics?
Question: What do such places like Tahir Square in Cairo, Taksim Square in Istanbul, Independence Square in Kiev, and the public gallery of the United States Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C. have in common? (By the way, if a majority … Continue reading
prior probability 