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The Complexity Era in Economics
Abstract: This article argues that the neoclassical era in economics has ended and is being replaced by a new era. What best characterizes the new era is its acceptance that the economy is complex, and thus that it might be called the complexity era. The complexity era has not arrived through a revolution. Instead, it has evolved out of the many strains of neoclassical work, along with work done by less orthodox mainstream and heterodox economists. It is only in its beginning stages. The article discusses the work that is forming the foundation of the complexity era, and how that work will likely change the way in which we understand economic phenomena and the economics profession.

Indirectly via a deleted comment from emilind at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1144548
This seems like a very silly ad campaign by Microsoft. As a company who is in, by far the dominant position in terms of productivity suites, I can't see any reason why you'd start comparing other products such as Google Docs and OO.o with yours - it makes them look like they _are_ comparable, except that some of them are free.
I'm offended by this "disproof by one liner." The linked article is a parable, and trying to do exactly what parables usually do; give you enough distance to revisit something that you already have opinions about.

Maybe you like it, maybe you don't. "Proof by fiction" is simple mischaracterization.
I don't think they can (in the US, at least, at least for now) mandate "no firewalls" at your home. Ignoring that the state of the art as deployed (Windows) makes that impractical.

I don't think we're even close to "only government approved firewalls at your home".
Abstract: This article argues that the neoclassical era in economics has ended and is being replaced by a new era. What best characterizes the new era is its acceptance that the economy is complex, and thus that it might be called the complexity era. The complexity era has not arrived through a revolution. Instead, it has evolved out of the many strains of neoclassical work, along with work done by less orthodox mainstream and heterodox economists. It is only in its beginning stages. The article discusses the work that is forming the foundation of the complexity era, and how that work will likely change the way in which we understand economic phenomena and the economics profession.

Indirectly via a deleted comment from emilind at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1144548
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Larry Summers as in "forced out of Harvard with the precipitating event being that he suggested there might be an outside possibility that differences in female participation in science are caused by differences in female's motivation to pursue science" Larry Summers? He would not be the first example I'd bring up in defense of the academy's willingness and ability to tolerate heretics. He had tenure, he has status, he was the flipping President of Harvard, he had just about everything going for him an academic possibly could. And that still didn't save his job when he said something the academy didn't like.
I think that's what he's actually trying to say there. In my own terminology, I agree good design is equivalent to good usability, but design is too often understood as "looks good", which is what the article is arguing against as less important.
But can you put a seal somewhere so that removal will be obvious after the fact?
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It means the meat stays refrigerated all the way from slaughter to sale. The meat in all the other chains spends significant time sitting in areas without temperature control (read, sitting in hot areas).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_chain
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Maybe, but it is a deception, because the setup is given by the storyteller. So if you think for yourself, you do so with the assumptions given by the story.

I still think it is simply a device to sway people's opinions. Otherwise, why not just give some condensed facts about the real world?
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Not quite.

Hypothetical example: Initially a town has two shops A and B. A sells high-end goods at high-end prices. B sells low-end goods quite cheaply. Most people buy mostly from B but get their luxuries from A. Now Wal-Mart moves in. It sells low-end goods cheaper than B, and highish-end goods cheaper (but lower quality) than A. Some people are quality fanatics and continue to get their high-end goods from A, but most of A's customers care about convenience as well and therefore get Wal-Mart's highish-end goods there since they're buying their ordinary stuff there too. Result: A no longer gets enough custom to turn a profit and shuts down, and now everyone gets everything from Wal-Mart.

The low prices help, I'm sure, but I bet convenience matters more. (Single anecdotal datapoint: I am a very price-insensitive food buyer, but I get almost all my food from supermarkets simply because it's so much more convenient than going to lots of different shops, possibly discovering after buying half the ingredients for a meal that something important isn't available, etc. FWIW I'm not in the US, so it isn't Wal-Mart I'm buying from.)
Aha - thanks! The good father indeed sounds like Volcker: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/paul-volcker-fi...
I am not saying the story is wrong, so I don't "disprove by one liner". I don't like the device for manipulating opinion, that's all.

If you read such a beautiful fairytale, you can nod along feeling comfy all the way (maybe sitting in front of a cosy fireplace among friends).

Overall, I am pretty sure opinions are not formed by logic, but by factions - we believe things because it benefits us and makes us belong to our faction. So to create a comfy fireplace fairytale setting is simply a manipulative device. I feel it is a good idea to be wary of such approaches, just as an anecdote is interesting, but should not be sufficient basis for judgment.
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From http://seekingalpha.com/article/97158-goldman-sachs-buffett-... :

"In the news yesterday, Goldman Sachs (GS) announced that Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Buffett's investing vehicle, will purchase $5B worth of perpetual preferred shares with a 10% dividend being paid in return for exclusive use of this capital injection. Not only does Berkshire get a dividend nearly double that of Canadian bank issued perpetuals, but the holding company also receives warrants to purchase $5B of common stock at $115 during the next five years."

So let's put it together.

* Buffett and Munger buy tons of stock in the above mentioned "casino".

* The casino loses big.

* Casino gets huge tax bucks from you and me to cover its loses and pay huge bonuses to itself.

* The tax money flows back to Berkshire via the holdings listed above, and form thence to Buffett and Munger.

* Munger writes folksy article damning "casino gambling".

For those who weren't aware, Buffett was a director of Goldman for many years. You know, the years when all this latest crap was happening. The years when he and Munger must have talked at least once a week. Those years.

EDIT: Buffett is the largest individual investor in GS, and was apparently asked (on that basis) to join the board, but apparently never did. My bad. On the other hand, his involvement in TARP is even worse that I knew:

From http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2009/04/05/65496/buffett-champion... :

"Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway, hasn't received any of that federal aid, but Berkshire, based in Omaha, Neb., owns stock valued at more than $13 billion in the top recipients of TARP funds, including Goldman Sachs Group, US Bancorp, American Express and Bank of America, which analysts all thought were in deep trouble before TARP was approved in October."

I'm a huge believer in economic freedom, i.e., the free market. I only wish that most large businesses were. It's so much easier for them to rent-seek.
It's "obvious" (in a somewhat unreasonable sense of that word) that this can't give a truly random permutation of the elements of the array. Since the only randomness comes from coin-flips, the probability of any particular outcome must be a rational number whose denominator is a power of 2. But there are n! permutations of n objects, and for n > 2 this isn't a power of 2, so they can't all be being selected with equal probability.
good article, how can a system based on greed, corruption, and imaginary wealth survive? The U.S. has concentrated less and less on production and innovation, and needs to refocus it's efforts it it's going to get out of this hole. Energy is a great example of where production and innovation is now needed, and could revive the U.S. Economy. I hope this comes to pass.
This is most probably also a problem for anti-aliasing in 3D or 2D verctor rendering.

Have a look at this screenshot of a wireframe model rendered in OpenGL on Mac OS X.

http://i.imgur.com/IxrS7.png

The oblique lines look dashed, even if you look at them from far enough not to be able to distinguish individual pixels anymore.
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Unfortunately this ideas doesn't apply for maths related exams.
URL detection isn't as trivial as it sounds - lots of edge cases http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/challen...
The Google Docs vs Excel is pretty scathing: the user can't open the document from GMail, and even simple stuff like charts are removed from the spreadsheet.

Google do search and maps really well, but Google apps. including GMail, still aren't very popular (Yahoo mail is apparently huge). They're an engineering company, they still don't get user experience. There's still no preview window in gmail, documents are shown with very long lines of text that are difficult to read when compared with the common newspaper-column layout. Google need to start hiring UI people yesterday if they want to compete with MS in the office space.
This is about as fact-free as the original TV puff piece. The slashdot discussion yesterday produced more informative comments; e.g. this one is worth reading:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1559256&cid...
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Of course you would know it was enough, as far as I understand the spyware's use of the webcam is short enough for them to explain it as "glitches".

In other words, just use any normal program that can acquire images from the camera to see how much (or little) you've managed to obscure the view.
Or more specifically - According to Microsoft, the problem with Gmail seems to be that it doesn't integrate with Microsoft Exchange. Which isn't surprising, since it's a closed, proprietary platform.

Rather twisted to sell vendor lock-in as a feature, isn't it?
nevermind the fact that saying 'hello' is considered polite... But I still like this article :)
This is somewhat misleading. You still have to "study", ie do homework, read the book, and spend time with the material, you just don't expressively stare at notes and solutions for hours the day before the exam, which generally doesn't work too well.

Anybody who does a fantastic job taking in the ideas from material, and connecting it to what they know, and fully understanding homework, etc, will do great in any class without "studying [for the exam]".
You can disagree with the scheme of things while exploiting it. Buffet thinks his taxes are too low but he doesn't offer to pay extra unless he is forced to.
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im sorry, but are we assuming that suppliers are inherently worthy of business? if wal-mart is slowly squeezing out inefficient suppliers in favor of more efficient ones everyone is winning.
I was trying to be polite about our colonial friends.
Does it really matter how random it is? Most users will click whatever button will get rid of the message as soon as possible, which I suspect will end up not changing the default. Look at the pictures here:

http://microsoftontheissues.com/cs/blogs/mscorp/archive/2010...

Both a close button and a "select later" button, nice tempting targets for people who don't care about their browser and just want to search for 'facebook login' on Google.
No there isn't. I've already suggested a solution that will work in almost every case of duplication I've detected, and it appears to be completely ignored.

To be fair the general decline in civility and quality, and the general increase in spam might be regarded as more pressing issues, but the solution I suggested seems trivial to implement and moderately effective.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1012215
not trying to single you out, but your post is a good example of the type of rhetoric that i dislike on economic subjects. "feel good" statements about greed and corruption discourage the kind of dispassionate analysis we actually need.
Yeh I think this is one of the problems, most of the other comments mentioned it as well, I do sit down quite low which means I probably dont move my arms enough.

Cheers everyone for the suggestions.
If you are able to access the CTV webplayer from the US, I definitely suggest it. It has to be the best live web player I have ever seen.
I think ultimately you can use the techniques suggested (and many others) to improve your learning. But speed learning is, I think, really hard to develop if your not natural at it.

Im a natural speed learner and always have been; but this comes with some serious side effects too.

My rote learning is pretty poor and I sometimes pass over minutiae. Also while I can quickly learn a topic and sound fairly expert I tend to struggle to fill out the rest of the detail: as a result I know a lot of stuff - but much is in no real depth (that's only partly problematic now; in my fields of interest I have developed the deep knowledge but it was not easy).

Focus is a problem too. I cant concentrate on learning anything for long periods. And hour at most - and if it isnt gone in by then I will move on. A couple of physics text books I bought months ago are still sat on my desk 50% finished because I lost interest in the ending.

These are not techniques you should really try to employ to pass exams. I can do it because it's a natural process for me (scan text books for a few hrs before exam etc.) but friends that have tried the same (and are natural rote learners) struggled to connect information together in the exam.

And a fun anecdote: one of my best final year university exam results was in a class I ignored after the first lecture (Opto electronics, my god it was boring). I skimmed the text book the morning of the exam with a friend and he suggested we go grab a drink because "we really need to go to an exam drunk at least once. and as were going to fail this anyway....". 4 pints and another skim read later we both aced the exam (top marks of the year). It's no proof of course but I think it's interesting evidence that this is a) a skill you either have or not and b) a lot of luck is involved. :)
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The plural of MBA is "MBAs". Adding the apostrophe makes it possessive, not plural.

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While clearly Google seriously fucked up with Buzz I think most of these lawsuits are being filed by trolls out either to make a quick buck or because they like to jump on bandwagons like this.

I dont really support them in that because it damages the claims of people who might really have been hurt by their private data being exposed.

If Google hadnt locked things up again then, yes, files all these suits to get them to take notice (that's surely the point after all). Otherwise IMO the only suits should be from those with actual damages. EPIC should be the ones slapping them over the privacy mess.
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I'll bet it's not part Goldman's normal business model to borrow money at 10% to fund operations. Perhaps Buffett was just taking advantage of their weakness to extract some cash from the beast and invest it into more sound vehicles in the future.
I have access to analytics for ticalc.org, a website frequented by high-school students who are looking for calculator programs (we rank #1 on Google for "calculator game" among other queries). I'm not sure if you'd call that "technical" or not.

The story here is similar. Of the 275,000 visits in the past 31 days: 39% came from from Firefox, 36% from IE, 12% from Chrome, and 10% from Safari.
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These are so old...
An intern probably wrote the site, and MS doesn't care because no layperson is even going to read the screen.
I think it's funny how manufacturing the paper portion of the passport is the hard part.
a typematrix keyboard and dvorak helped me.
regulatory complexity and the convoluted hoops large players jump through to get around them does not count as a fundamental shift in economic principles.
The only problem with that is you're in effect writing a blog post about something you haven't seen, or are merely creating a post that says -- "I intend to watch this"
Your anecdote reminds me of the Danish National Soccer Team winning the European Soccer Contest in 1992. The team didn't qualify for the tournament. All players had started summer vacation, when another team became disqualified or something. The Danish team was called to stand in on a very short notice. No time for any training etc., just merrily playing soccer. And ending up winning the entire contest.
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Of course, that was the view the Soviets also had. Although they were an "evil empire"

Yes, this.

At the Museum of communism in Prague, there is an exhibit that talks of how the people in the eastern bloc were kept in a state of terror of the imminent threat of the American Weapons of Mass Destruction. Which was quite plausible, since the Americans had already nuked one country. Of course, this threat served political ends of damping down domestic dissent and disloyalty. Draw your own parallels.

we had a determined adversity who was dedicated to destroying us by any means possible in every realm

-sigh- Someone hasn't learned yet.
Please add help for something beyond "beginners".
I'm not sure about that article at all, actually.

My C++ and Java are very rusty, and I don't think I could do it on the spot if I tried; let alone go into languages like python and ruby that are new to me. But if you gave me a week or two, I know I could get up to speed.
All absolutely true, but note the lack of derivatives and hedges. The Goldman transaction was a straight equity deal, with a big emphasis on dividends. In a nutshell, it was a chance to squeeze one of the 'casinos' hard, while still staying out of the whole CDO/default swap/derivative mess.

Both Munger and Buffett have a habit of stealing your wallet while telling you you're an idiot for letting them do it. The article and the Goldman deal are reflections of that attitude.
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"I got an A after just one hour of review on the plane."

Even with the best techniques, this can't be the whole story. presumably he had already studied the stuff before (however effectively). I would think in one hour one could not even read all the material.

Also creating those mental hooks also is work and takes time. Not sure if it comes easier after a lot of practice (probably).
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Buffet was never a director at Goldman. Berkshire did not loan the $5 billion and receive the options until well after the financial mess, after Goldman's stock dropped over 50%. The article talks about casinos dealing "financial derivatives" which are completely different from equity securities, and which were the primary investment vehicle that led to the collapse in 2008. Munger is dead on.
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I'd prefer the ability to broaden the search radius personally. I live in Maryland, but work in DC, with an office in Vienna, VA. I'd either like to set home points for all three of those, or broaden the radius from the middle location to encompass the outer 2 locations.

I'm sure this is a freaky edge case, and will likely never be implemented, but if I could multi-home, and have a filter that included locations near any of the three, I'd be gold.
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The solution is to get a decent external keyboard. A laptop keyboard is never going to be good. Stop dancing around the issue - get a decent keyboard.

I started to get wrist pain about 10 years ago, which worried me. This was right around the time MS first released their ergonomic keyboard. It was 100ukp, but I figured that was a small price to pay if it fixed my problem. It did - the pains went away in about 2 weeks. They've never come back (I've used various models of the MS ergo keyboard since then).

Get a decent keyboard.
Read what I wrote again. I said adults because presumably all of these applications were already age limited to adults. The thing is, as I said, not all adults want softcore pornography. Hence, for that set of users, the App Store just got better.

What Apple is assuming is that the set of their users who categorically do not want softcore pornography is larger than the set that do, and that removing themselves from the business of selling and distributing softcore pornography will be a net gain.

The same is probably not true of any other distinct class of applications.
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I don't want Adobe to touch any of my hardware. They are not a hardware company.

EDIT: They might be good at other things though.
You're opposed on principle to rhetoric?
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Artists also use lies to tell lies, especially political ones.
>In fact, in over 50% of all page hits, Internet Explorer would come out to the far right spot of the five browser choices shown on the screen.

I thought for a L-R language reading right-handed person that this was the most prominent spot. Certainly I've observed most users I've done web training with to hold their cursor at the RHS of the page. Thus less effort is required to reach the right hand options.

Gaze tracking on actual users of the site would be interesting.
Problems for which you have solid models and tools (statistics) to solve them are the exact sort you wouldn't use GP or any sort of evolutionary computing (EC). EC is best used when the only other option is picking random solutions from the entire solution space.

At least that's what I've gathered.
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Presumably you mean Upper Darby, in which case no, I was at Haverford.

I was out before Haverford started really implementing computers (at the time they didn't even have computers for the teachers) but I suspect you're right - if they could have done something like this they would have. I can recall a very particular mentality among the administration there which was much along the lines of 'protect the students from themselves at all costs'.

A shame, though.