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Once More
I'm planning again to donate the moneys to the reprehensible if I don't stay on track. A motivation thing. (I had some troubles navigating the website last time I tried and used that as an excuse not to continue.)
Pretty simple. 10 bucks loss to the appallingly unworthy for every day I don't do as I ought. I will also note the failure on Facebook to ( Read more... ) -
Letters to a Post-Apocalyptic Dictator
Trying to move internet-house again.
I've got the personal website that I've neglected for a long time now. I've changed the branding into something completely silly and enjoyable, so I'm going to try again to move over there.
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Who 2012
Wow. Just wow.
The thing I hated most about the last season is how it destroyed my anticipation. Even with the occasional Gaiman (whoo, Gaiman!), there were so many let downs that the Christmas-morning-like glee of the next broadcast vanished. I awaited them with the barest whiff of dread, and even when "The Girl Who Waited" came along, it was ( Read more... ) -
Ugh
Here is the New Yorker article "The Lie Factory", which is an illuminating, brilliantly-told, and wrist-slittingly depressing story. -
I haven't thought of this in forever.
High school student. Part-time job ( Read more... ) -
Using the Label
To state it clearly: I am a singularitarian. Of the small-s variety, anyway.
Not one of the near-future types, not a Singularity by 2045 kook like Kurzweil. Nor am I one of the exponential-tech-growth types, again not like Kurzweil. And though it has nothing direct to do with the singularity, I also do not believe that cryo, even if it could work, ( Read more... ) -
It's about time the rest of the profession started to agree with me.*
Michael Woodford has come out in support of NGDP targeting. Whoo!
...I mean, dude's several years late. Took him long enough. Still, I'm glad to finally have him on board.
There's a lot we could do to discuss bank regulation, changes in debt, making the system more stable even with a better monetary target. Yes yes yes. Having a better set of models ( Read more... ) -
Books: Sort Of
Differential Equations & Mathematica, Bill Davis and Jerry Uhl
Been a long damn time since my undergrad uni diffy-q class. This is a computer textbook, better than print in every possible way.
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Chicago delenda est.
You're a bank.
You are in trouble. You want to borrow money from your central bank. For collateral, you have a government bond valued for hypothetical convenience at $100. You go to the central bank for an emergency loan, and the money men discount the bond by giving you a loan of $95 and keeping the bond as collateral. To pay off the loan, you pay ( Read more... )