Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Hedge funds and private equity: a hedge fund manager's perspective

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Freakonomics gets some great responses from a hedge fund manager. No respectable senator can claim any longer (though really, they never co...
Saturday, August 04, 2007

Why didn't more people die when 35W fell?

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It is no comfort to the loved ones of the 13 who appear to have died, or to those facing lifelong disability from the fall of the I-35W brid...

Fake rabies vaccine

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10,000 doses. China Blacklists 400 Exporters - Forbes.com ... Earlier this week, the official People's Daily reported, police detained a...

Solving the china import problem; $1 million prize for each recall

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Want to solve the China problem? Why lead-tainted Chinese goods slip through despite U.S. recalls -- chicagotribune.com ...Three decades aft...

The Center of it All

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The center of it All.
Friday, August 03, 2007

2011 comes early: Ms. Carbon Tax, meet Mr. Bridge

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I figured American life would change when gas hit $5/gallon in 2011 . I picked that date because I figured we won't get a carbon tax th...

Bridges: 77,000 deficient, 750 have I-35W design

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At Bridge Site, Search of River Moves Slowly - New York Times ... Dan Dorgan, a state bridge engineer for the Minnesota Department of Transp...
Thursday, August 02, 2007

Macworld - what the iPhone needs

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I've seen a lot of lists of what the iPhone needs, but this MacWorld list most resembled my own: Macworld: First Look: iPhone fixes we w...

Wikipedia and the I-35W collapse

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As expected, Wikipedia now has a good initial entry on the I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapse . This will be the place to go over the n...
Wednesday, August 01, 2007

TSA Administrator on No-Fly list

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I was wondering when Schneier would get to the "no-fly list" part of his interview with the TSA Administrator, Kip Hawley. It came...

A local bridge falls

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A local bridge fell into the Mississippi today. We're on the front page on the BBC World: BBC NEWS | Americas | Six dead as US bridge co...

Journalism in transition and not-so-irrational voters: Rosenberg

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Scott Ronsenberg, who's just left Salon , wrote two posts that merit a broader attention. The first is simply a response to Kristoff...
Tuesday, July 31, 2007

The way we think: reason as an afterthought

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Towards the end of an article reporting how much unnoted context alters our feelings and behaviors, a NYT article describes the implication ...
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Recommender systems - so that's why they've been disappointing

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Recommender systems for music and books haven't lived up to initial expectations. Netflix and Amazon give me pretty decent recommendatio...

A mouse model for calcineurin-type Schizophrenia: exciting news indeed

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This is terribly interesting news on several fronts. Mouse models of a variant of autism emerged about 1-2 years ago, and they've radica...