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by linhir 17y ago
A great article on how the Naymen-Pearson Hypothesis Testing is not particularly useful as a method of inference (e.g. the way most people tend to think of statistics with p-values and 5% significance doesn't say much). Some of what he is s
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Saint Cesar of Delano:An article about an American saint of sorts, flaws and all(wilsoncenter.org)
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Watching Shrek in Tehran: the seen and the unseen in Iranian cinema(believermag.com)
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New Photos of 9/11 Released(nytimes.com)
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Going Green and Growing Vertical in a Bid for Energy Savings (nytimes.com)
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by linhir 17y ago
You might want to try David Romer's Advanced Macroeconomics (a higher level undergrad text) or Acemoglu's Introduction to Modern Economic Growth (lower level grad text). From http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Economics/14-452Spring-2007/Syllab
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by linhir 17y ago
Greg Mankiw wrote years ago on his blog a good list of introductory high level econ books: A student emails me asking for a summer reading list. Here are ten very different books I like that are fun enough that you would not be embarrassed
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by linhir 17y ago
You make a key point that is often forgotten when people are arguing about programming languages. As part of the process of designing a program, you should pick which language (or programming paradigm) works best to solve that problem. A lo
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Creative Solutions to iPhone Service Woes(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by linhir 17y ago
One could argue that all non-profit boards are benevolently autocratic; however there points seems to be that the particularly small and insular nature of the Board of Fellows is a problem. Looking at comparable universities, no one has as
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Everyone Should Get an A(inference.phy.cam.ac.uk)
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by linhir 17y ago
Ya, I see that now, my error. I would delete my meaningless comment if I could.
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by linhir 17y ago
Just FYI, nominal price figures over time are pretty meaningless due to inflation. What cost $2670 in 1961 would cost $19,226.05 in 2008 (BLS calculator: http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl ), which means that expenditure per pupil, in
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by linhir 17y ago
I wouldn't necessarily recommend Christensen, Horn and Johnson. They talk a lot about the need for innovative practices in education, but their recommendations aren't particularly innovative. The details of how the innovative practices must
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by linhir 17y ago
As Sandel points out, there are three classic ways to categorize justice: welfare, freedom and virtue. Although I doubt that we need to have a long conversation here, I think that what is great in America has not been that it maximizes free
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Ask HN: Using R
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by linhir 17y ago
For anyone interested in learning algorithms (and not just free books), I would also suggest Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Chris Bishop. Not free, but worth while. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/cmbishop/prml/
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Craigslist’s Missed Connections As Art(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Growing fresh air [video](ted.com)
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The 3 Stupidest Ways to “Save” Money(beyondbeermoney.com)
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Google to found venture capital firm(nytimes.com)
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Anonymity on the internet: an argument(garynuzzi.org)
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The lack of access to care is the real mental health “epidemic” affecting children today.(warner.blogs.nytimes.com)
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When anonymous attackers went after two Yale law students, they struck back(portfolio.com)
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Enforcing Manners, Tumblr Shuts Down 5 Blogs(thelede.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by linhir 18y ago
Twitter is the current example that comes to mind of a company that has raised a few rounds and has no revenues, we'll see how that works out...
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Why Not Bring a Neanderthal to Life?(tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Smartphones Under Assault from Beige Box Bunch(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Resolved Language Debates?(weblogs.asp.net)
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Letting Scientists Off the Leash(judson.blogs.nytimes.com)
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