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This is how you game the review system it seems, till the systems games you.
Useful tips by Michael Freeman (photographer & author of Photographer's Eye\Mind books)
Interesting site that "examines" the articles posted in the New York Times
This is what makes it difficult to call Economics a true science - experiment results are rarely replicable given the number of variabilities.
All very valid arguments, but who will bell the cat?
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Adam Smith himself was wary of the effect of limiting liability, a bedrock principle of the modern corporation.
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Consider that we trust military and homeland security personnel with our lives, yet we don’t give them lavish bonuses. They get promotions and the honor of a job well done if they succeed, and the severe disincentive of shame if they fail. For bankers, it is the opposite: a bonus if they make short-term profits and a bailout if they go bust. The question of talent is a red herring: Having worked with both groups, I can tell you that military and security people are not only more careful about safety, but also have far greater technical skill, than bankers.
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The article (by Dick Brass, a vice president at Microsoft from 1997 to 2004) is almost 2 years old, but just as relevant after the news of the demise of the Courier tablet. Also makes you wonder whether Microsoft's strategy of focusing on software is becoming its Achilles heel.
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As the fellow who tried (and largely failed) to make tablet PCs and e-books happen at Microsoft a decade ago, I could say this is because the company placed too much faith in people like me.
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Its marketing has been inept for years
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If you ever wondered what Tim Cook was doing in the last decade, then this is pretty much the article that defines his role as the COO
Communism didn't work that well, and neither does unrestrained capitalism it seems...
The infographic on top is particularly enlightening
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Most telling of all, Washington deregulated Wall Street while insuring it against major losses. In so doing, it allowed finance — which until then had been the servant of American industry — to become its master, demanding short-term profits over long-term growth and raking in an ever larger portion of the nation’s profits.
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Germany has grown faster than the United States for the last 15 years, and the gains have been more widely spread.
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If you thought 9/11 was a catastrophe for the US, think again - the deficit is going to be a much bigger & longer term problem. The beast is starving but not getting any thinner.
"Why are Republicans reluctant to sit down and talk? Because they would then be forced to put up or shut up. Since they’re adamantly opposed to reducing the deficit with tax increases, they would have to explain what spending they want to cut. And guess what? After three decades of preparing the ground for this moment, they’re still not willing to do that."
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The conservative answer, which evolved in the late 1970s, would be dubbed “starving the beast” during the Reagan years. The idea — propounded by many members of the conservative intelligentsia, from Alan Greenspan to Irving Kristol — was basically that sympathetic politicians should engage in a game of bait and switch. Rather than proposing unpopular spending cuts, Republicans would push through popular tax cuts, with the deliberate intention of worsening the government’s fiscal position. Spending cuts could then be sold as a necessity rather than a choice, the only way to eliminate an unsustainable budget deficit.
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Why are Republicans reluctant to sit down and talk? Because they would then be forced to put up or shut up. Since they’re adamantly opposed to reducing the deficit with tax increases, they would have to explain what spending they want to cut. And guess what? After three decades of preparing the ground for this moment, they’re still not willing to do that.
From the executive editor of NYT - "Basically, we are outsourcing our brains to the cloud. The upside is that this frees a lot of gray matter for important pursuits like FarmVille and “Real Housewives.” But my inner worrywart wonders whether the new technologies overtaking us may be eroding characteristics that are essentially human: our ability to reflect, our pursuit of meaning, genuine empathy, a sense of community connected by something deeper than snark or political affinity. "
A neat little version with a learning computer or a learned one.
Interesting and simple way to look at conditional probability. Would also be interesting to relate it to octopus Paul & his WC 2010 predictions.
Good thing I rely on multiple online sources for news.
Wonder how much of it applies to people outside the US
Zipf's law & its applicability to cities.
Interesting way to use the netflix data to visually lay out the area wise popular movies.
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