mathattack

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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Why ants? (Other than it's a fascinating topic, but so are so many others...)
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   I wish I could give this a dozen upvotes!
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Somehow I just can't see this ending well either.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   I guess to me there's a big difference between automating speeding tickets and subcontracting prisons. I think the controversial issue on cameras is "What else are they doing with the pictures?"
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   That's my point.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Is false ticketing really an issue? I would think that there are a lot of bigger issues with all these cameras.
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   Why are CEO salaries rising?(marginalrevolution.com)

   1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   That it made it through the reviewers suggests the rigor of the review process. :-) Was this a major journal? I also wondered if there was something less nefarious in the explanation. Was it "Falsify some results" or "Toss
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   This is a real shame. 10 years of work gone, and they have to ask for help for the legal bills.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I'm tempted to make a smart-ass comment about as-a-service, but the reality is this is a global trend. Things that used to be bought or owned don't have to be. In a sense, this is financial. Why should I pay for full use of som
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    When I first read John Holland's book on Emergence it opened my eyes to an exciting new field. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0738201421 I'm not sure if we can solve AI in an 8 bit cellular automata, but the genera
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    In Japan they have (or had) nicotine energy drinks.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    "One game changer would be governments mandating that publicly financed research be made publicly available. Every year the United States government provides over $60 billion in public grants for scientific research. In 2008, Congress
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Thank you for adding so much detail to my oversimplification. Let's get back to the original question, though, which is about why shareholders have so much power. My contention is that shareholders (Via the board) have the most direct
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    Kleiner Perkins finds new profits in an old dotcom(finance.fortune.cnn.com)

    1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    For better or worse, the shareholders are the ones who set the pay of the CEO. Much of that pay is in shares. The way to fight this is twofold: 1) Make it easier for people to start new companies and competitors. This serves both employe
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    Mo' people Mo' problems(pandodaily.com)

    1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I like his distinguishing of mastery of the visible versus mastery of the invisible. This is very true, and why people who sometimes seem outwardly competent and good at routine thing struggle with uncertainty and adaptation. I also like
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Pretty cool visual representation. I wish I had it when I was learning about this magic black box called regression. :-)
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    The scary thing about the elitist view is that there isn't any real check to say, "Let's just share our information, and the power that goes with it, with the masses." This Praetorian view is very dangerous, and it does
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    This is remarkably practical. Is the next step putting a GPS on the dog's tag?
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I like that he is willing to open source it. A patent would be the surest way to be sure that it dies.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Worse yet, they are push problems into the future. The pension holders can't count on the money, and the pension funders are allowed to kick the can down the road.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    On bonds, I'm not sure actually. I am generally short term bearish on the asset class, but I'm not a pro, and I tend to be bearish on most asset classes. Bill Gross wrote about it recently. ( http://www.pimco.com&#x2F
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    It is very stable only over the VERY long haul. Look at the SPY index, which is total returns (including dividends) of the S&P. Take it back to 1994, which is as far as Yahoo Finance allows. http://finance.yahoo.com/ech
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I think the real lesson is we don't know how long or how much we'll need to save. We do know that we'll live longer than the people for whom the original pension systems were defined. We also know that returns may not be as
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    This article is bad on so many levels... 1) The lifehacker article doesn't list the 2 most important sanity check #s. What is the rate of return that they're assuming for the equity and fixed income? 2) If you dig into the actu
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    Smartphone ethics(marginalrevolution.com)

    1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Imagine what 200-300 years in prison will do to someone. Would they be totally serene, or completely psychotic? The cost of prison goes up dramatically if people are there for hundreds of years. I think society might reconsider the death
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Let's see if he gets his cash. :-)