This is a remarkable letter. I should add Sidney Powell’s mandamus petition re Judge Flynn. I wonder how a Democrat with any integrity would respond to these two examples, so clearly stated. He could repudiate Senator Warner and Judge Flynn, to be sure, but does any Democrat ever criticize his own people, by name, except […]
Yet another stub. I need to write on the paradox that it’s easier to tell a good writer how to improve his writing than a bad writer, and he is also more likely to accept your advice. With business managers, it’s harder to give advice to a good manager than a bad one, but he, […]
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Design
Bad design is a scourge, whipping us daily. Engineers need to be taught common sense, and mocked mercilessly, and by name if possible, when they inflict pain on us. I am installing a Canon printer. They ask me for the model. Of course, they should care enough about their customers to have a separate set […]
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Wikipedia as a vocation
This is a stub. I should use it to encourage smart people to do Wikipedia edits. My email to Gigerenzer and emails to friends contain good material. I have written down strength and weaknesses of mine below, because they are relevant to this. What I will be writing about is that people with skills like […]
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Rasmapedia
This is a stub. I need to imitate Wikipedia. This is the answer to the problem of organizing blog posts and notes. I should see if I can adapt the exact same software Wikipedia uses, because is is extremely well-designed– the markup commands, the text editor, the version tracking, everything. This is worth some time […]
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Signal, Noise, and CDC
A nice-sounding worship session in Frankfurt Germany caused over 100 peoplet to get covid-19 because of the singing. This is a stub for an entry on the probelm of Signal and Noise. The problem is growing. It started around 1500. Before then, you could read every book in your town, and read them all carefully. […]
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Inflation
This is a stub, as they say at Wikipedia. I want to figure out whether we’re going to have high inflation in 2021. I will put some notes here, and eventually work them up into a real post. We’re in a curious situation now. We have massive new government spending. We are paying for it […]
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Decoupling College
Garett Jones has an interesting idea: separate out the different parts of the college experience and think about how to do each in the best way. That nobody has thought about this shows how uncreative colleges and professors are (including me). Most college education goes on outside the classroom. Components of a college education include: […]
Does anybody know how I can make WordPress indent some but not all “paragraphs” in blockquote mode? The best I can figure out now using CSS (the Theme Editor being useless because the Theme is poorly documented and organized) is to put a period where I would use the command \noindent in Latex. I find […]
I think I’ll start a post/page for poetry. Did you know that econometricians, too, have the spirit of verse within them? Cf. Arthur Lewbel, my Sloan classmate of MIT days: Our paper was under review, Date is 6 months past due, At last, report’s here, And we started to cheer, Until we read referee two. […]