September 2011
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WatchHave you ever been thinking that there is something fundamentally wrong with the way economists view the world? One reason is that Economists apply linear and analytical models which simply don’t take into account e g non-linearity, which is exactly what we see around us today. During certain periods the world seems to behave according to linear models and things seems almost predictable, but...
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Interesting Day
I felt pretty good about my neural networks homework today. But when class started the professor mentioned that not enough students were checking their solutions via computer.
“ … It’s like a civil engineer building a road with a shovel — when you need to be organizing heavy machinery”
In short — we should all write programs (“Matlab, Perl, Python,...
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WatchPaul Higgins: I am travelling in Cambodia and Vietnam at the moment and will not eat the prawns or shrimp for two reasons - the farming methods and the fact that they are filter feeders and therefore collect al sorts of stuff in their system
climateadaptation: 2 student teams, 2 innovative video reports on shrimp farming — Pace U. on best practices and a prospect for shrimp farmed with the planet...
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“Global slums are the other side of many global cities, especially in the global...”
– Saskia Sassen via pdsmith, radarqnet
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German Village Produces 321% More Energy Than It... →
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Sheriff Saves $1 Million By De-Privatizing County... →
Sheriff Michael Page of Hernando County, Florida, is the latest in a line of Sheriffs to inherit the headache that is the county jail. After being operated by CCA for 22 years, the facility had fallen into exceptional disrepair, after CCA had neglected to perform millions of dollars worth of required maintenance. The county took over the facility a little more than a year ago and started the long...
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Youth Joblessness Creates Ripple Effect →
Not having a summer or after-school job affects more than just a kid’s wallet. It also has real consequences for his or her personal and economic development.
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Rutgers University economist Bill Rodgers says unless teens keep busy doing something useful, it’s really hard for them to stay out of trouble.
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WatchThe Perennial Plate: A Tale of Three Seasides (the—game)
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“War Eagle”
– … I didn’t sleep Thursday night so I fell asleep around 7 on Friday and woke up ridiculously early today — early enough to do Gameday Recycling!
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I am not a robot, I am a unicorn! →
This week, Cornell’s Creative Machines Lab posted a video that shows what happens when a robot chats with another robot. The result? A curious conversation that goes from eccentric to existential. Robert Siegel talks to Hod Lipson, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell University, who helped set up the experiment.
Robot-To-Robot Chat Yields Curious...
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“When I hear people ridiculing some scientific study like the one where the...”
– Shrimp On A Treadmill (via ryking)