Sunday, 12 June 2016

How Big Data and Poker Playing Bots Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling

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From The Kernel: In his new book, The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling, Adam Kucharski details how tryi...

How to Get a Job In Venture Capital

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In a 2014 post* I introduced the writer thusly: And now Mr. Turck (*"Partner at FirstMark Capital. Previously, Managing Director at Bl...

Bonhams Auctioneers Has Allegedly Installed Sprinklers To Douse Homeless Outside the Building

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It seems they got the idea from the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Now, the auctioneers may think they are offering the homeless a cool, refr...
Saturday, 11 June 2016

Noah Smith: "Economics Struggles to Cope With Reality"

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From BloombergView: There are basically four different activities that all go by the name of macroeconomics. But they actually have relativ...

Questions America Wants Answered: "Is the Jetpack Movement Finally Taking Off?"

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From the Wall Street Journal, June 7: ..."Even Google couldn’t make it work. 'The jetpack is a death trap because the engines go o...

What’s the point of virtual reality?

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If the psychologists are correct that the mind eventually accepts as real what is actually just virtual or imagined,* one natural endpoint i...

On the productivity puzzle: Does business investment explain it all?

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Following up on last week's "Productivity Growth: It's the Investment, Stupid". James Pethokoukis at AEI's Ideas blog,...