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by neffy 11y ago
The Psychology of Computer Programming. Gerald M. Weinberg 1971 and: The Soul of a New Machine Tracy Kidder 1981 ought to be required reading for anybody in tech.
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Oh it happens all the time in econ - although one could argue that economics at the moment does deserve some of it. You regularly get emails and even the occasional book, linking to yet another youtube misconception of how money, banking an
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Yes, sorry. The not-to-scale aspect meant it jumped the shark almost immediately for me as well. As small as possible, following the initial display of the object, might have conveyed the idea better - and that would have made the Chinese e
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The volume could certainly become vastly more entertaining if they could be persuaded to provide one documented case/entry.
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(9* 7) * 2 :)
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This is the critical thing - they're not simulations. They are mathematical models based on a mix of the existing economic macro-economic formula. With upwards of 200 parameters that can be tweaked. There is no particular recipe btw -
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The DSGE models are influential up until somebody comes up with a valid alternative, at which point they will be dropped at somewhat over the speed of light :) To be brutally honest, this is not a big achievement. You should be able to rapi
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He's also a trader - "talking his book". http://www.yourdictionary.com/talking-one-s-book
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I always hesitate to point this out, because I'm firmly in the 'we are stewards of this earth and we need to be a lot more responsible about that' camp - which the denialists are anything but. But essentially what you're
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Speaking from the distaff side here, meritocracy would be a really nice thing to have. But what happens all too often is that a company wanting to distance itself from xxx-discrimination will quota hire the not-terribly meritocratic, becaus
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by neffy 11y ago
Call me a young one, but I think it happens every time before a major downturn :) http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0500831h.html#c12
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Actually, the Fed typically runs at a profit and pays it into the US Treasury. http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/other/2015010...