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Seven minutes of terror. A short video on describing how the Phoenix probe will land at the North Pole of Mars on May 25th.
via reddit.com: what's new online by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
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Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera [Camera Hacks]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on May 06, 2008
If you're using a consumer grade point-and-shoot Canon digital camera, you've got hardware in hand that can support advanced features way beyond what shipped in the box. With the help of a free, open source project called CHDK, you can get features like RAW shooting mode, live RGB histograms, motion-detection, time-lapse, and even games on your existing camera. Let's transform your...
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The Post-American World
via Marginal Revolution by Tyler Cowen on May 12, 2008
... system has lost the ability for large-scale compromise, and it has lost the ability to accept some pain now for much gain later on.That is from Fareed Zakaria's The Post-American World, a book remarkably full of common sense. It's #7 on Amazon and a good overall guide to globalization and why it matters that America no longer dominates the world, either economically or culturally.
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Condemned to Repeat Finance Past
via Overcoming Bias by Robin Hanson on May 12, 2008
Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it. SantayanaI once said:I'd guess you can get 80% of the improvement that predict markets offer by using a much simpler solution: collect track records. Case in point - stock investors:Based on the answers of 215 online broker investors to an Internet questionnaire, we analyze whether investors are able to correctly estimate their...
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Fundamental vs. Instrumental Reasons
via Ben Casnocha: The Blog by Ben Casnocha on May 12, 2008
... itself.The dirty little secret is that instrumental reasons don’t work.It’s way too tumultuous out there. The people who really flourish arethose who make decisions for fundamental reasons. They have to livewith a certain amount of ambiguity about not knowing what’s going tohappen next. But that keeps them alert to unexpected opportunities andthe serendipity you talked about earlier.
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Quote of the Day
via Ben Casnocha: The Blog by Ben Casnocha on May 12, 2008
We think we know the ones we love, and though we should not besurprised to find that we don’t, it is heartbreak nonetheless. It isthe hardest kind of knowledge, not only about another but aboutourselves. To see our lives as fiction we have written and believed.That's the opening of the new novel The Story of a Marriage, as found in this review.Admitting to ourselves that we were terribly,...
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When Competition is Harmful
via Evidence of Intent by Chiao on May 11, 2008
After listening to this podcast and reading the associated article, I think I finally understand the difference between political and free market competition. The issue clarified was rent seeking, both how it is defined and why it is harmful. Robert Tollison, an American economist who specializes in public choice theory (wikipedia):Rent seeking is the expenditure of scarce resources to capture an...
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BP101407.pdf (application/pdf Object)
via del.icio.us|chiaolun by (author unknown) on May 10, 2008
Shared by chiao Interesting Paper on Modern Recessions, including comments on The Great Moderation bookmark this on del.icio.us - posted by chiaolun toeconomics - more about this bookmark...
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If Many-Worlds Had Come First
via Overcoming Bias by Eliezer Yudkowsky on May 10, 2008
... and worse, it's a problem that everyone thinks they can understand. To get attention, a new Born hypothesis has to be... pretty darn good.""And this," Huve says, "this isn't good?"Huve gestures to the paper he'd brought to Biels Nohr. It is a short paper. The title reads, "The Solution to the Born Problem". The body of the paper reads:"When you perform a measurement on ...
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NYT on how Moody's triple-A security ratings ... [Subrime Meltdown]
via Consumerist by Consumerist Intern on April 28, 2008
NYT on how Moody's triple-A security ratings led to the subprime meltdown.
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