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Search for textual trends in historical bills in US Congress(steinbeck.seas.harvard.edu)
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Querying and Analyzing Google Domestic Trends Data(econpy.blogspot.com)
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MapReduce Word Count with GPUs using Pycuda(econpy.blogspot.com)
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by zissou 14y ago
Remember that there are many ways economic logic leaks into the the actions of governments at-large and within the institutions, but I think at the highest level this is an argument against government regulation. The principles of this argu
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by zissou 14y ago
I've learned a lot from the NLTK library, but unfortunately NLTK is terribly slow. Nevertheless, it is a fantastic place for beginners to start with text processing and learn from as the documentation is superb. However eventually one may w
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by zissou 14y ago
OP here. Should have posted sooner before it looks like my post got flagged? I think the shock[1] is being caused by the Copyright Alert System put into place on Monday by Comcast. Here's why: Comcast is the largest ISP in the US, so a chan
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Google searches for "VPN" are spiking this week in the US(google.com)
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by zissou 14y ago
Couldn't agree more! I'm an economics Ph.D. dropout who focused primarily on microeconomics and game theory (because like you said, current macro theory [see: DSGE] is completely bogus) and I think your points about finding monopolies is a
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Django + NLTK webapp for counting words in txt files(github.com)
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by zissou 14y ago
Reminds me of my favorite statistical/philosophical quote: ```When one commits to making statements about the average, they may be talking about someone who never exists, but they make very nice statements.``` It reflects on our over used e
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by zissou 14y ago
The Romans were too busy inventing sanitation, medicine, education, viniculture, public order, irrigation, roads, fresh-water systems and public health. So like others have said, infrastructure.
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by zissou 14y ago
Two-sided markets and platform competition have been popular topics for microeconomic theorists since around the 2003 work of Rochet and Tirole[1] (IMHO, Tirole will win the Nobel Prize in the next 3 years). These two helped put together mu
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by zissou 14y ago
Always happy to see some game theory on HN. If you're looking for a good book that focuses more on how game theory is actually used in practice versus the more computational exposition here, then I'd recommend a very readable and cheap book
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by zissou 14y ago
"Published August 15, 2008" Therefore, this is not in response to the recent CT shootings as the "will" part in the title suggests.
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by zissou 14y ago
Mistake is on my side, I apologize. I read what the poster said backwards myself. :) The repeated quote is a true statement: MLE is a special case of GMM.
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by zissou 14y ago
"MLE is a special case of GMM" You have it backwards. MLE is actually a special case of GMM. I'm done here.
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by zissou 14y ago
I've taken PhD Econometrics where we touched zero data and was 100% theoretical over the 9 months, so I don't think we are talking about the same thing. I don't like spewing out economically technical non-sense on HN, so I wasn't going to g
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by zissou 14y ago
From one of the comments in the article: "Economists, of course, broke away hard from mainline stats a while ago, calling it “econometrics” and reinventing names for EVERYTHING, plus throwing in a bizarre obsession with the method of moment
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by zissou 14y ago
I expected to see (theonion.com) at the end of this title after reading it.
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by zissou 14y ago
Economists end up in law all of the time because economics and law are so tightly knit, particularly antitrust/competition policy. In my undergraduate thesis I looked at what causes schools to graduate more or less economics majors, and the
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by zissou 14y ago
If you want to talk more about the econometric approach, feel free to email me. Would love to chat more. If you discovered AppNash, then you can also figure out my email :). FWIW, your point about finding exogenous changes is right on (mode
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by zissou 14y ago
For the poster session, we were only allowed 1 slide and 60 seconds to "pitch" our poster. Here is my 1 slide from that day: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3aImz1VYfNwMU1XT1hBb1k5Vlk Otherwise you can see some of the stuff I've tried t
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by zissou 14y ago
>>> Some advisors don't even care if you are coding in Python or in stone tables, as long as you "have three stars in your results table". That is beautiful. It perfectly describes the situation! I still to this day have scripts
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by zissou 14y ago
I don't want to get into a "what is wrong with economics as a discipline" argument, because I have far too much to say there. But I will say that between micro, macro and econometrics, macro is the farthest from reality by far (my program t
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by zissou 14y ago
I faced a similar problem in academia, but it was in economics. I started my undergrad career as a computer science major, later ending up in economics, and I went on for my PhD in economics after finishing my BA. For those that aren't fami
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by zissou 14y ago
You're not being dumb. You just sound similar to, say, a graduate student doing theory who hasn't been outside in a while. :)
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Estimate an Econometric Model from Scraped Data in Real-Time using Python(economics.io)
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by zissou 14y ago
Great story. Thanks for sharing.
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by zissou 14y ago
I hope people appreciate the idea presented in this article. I don't know how much the average engineer learns about panel data regression, but panel data is the heart and sole of modern day econometrics, and quite frankly it's knowledge th
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by zissou 14y ago
The way/speed/reason/etc for a change in a price is certainly one of the most fundamental topics to economics. For one, it's a topic that grabs the mind share of both macroeconomists and microeconomists, and there aren't many of those!

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