How to Become a Political Blogger John Sides, The Monkey Cage
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Flickr: Golden light fence
2011.11.19 – 17:05
Golden light fence by dobseh Here’s to a chilled out weekend! HFF!
Thomas Thwaites’s bespoke toaster
2011.11.19 – 12:47
Thomas Thwaites’s bespoke toaster Building a Toaster from scratch. Sounds familiar.
Population density fostered literacy, the Industrial Revolution « Per Square Mile
2011.11.19 – 12:47
Population density fostered literacy, the Industrial Revolution « Per Square Mile “The Industrial Revolution was fostered by a surge in literacy rates. Improvements in reading and writing were nurtured by the spread of schools. And the founding of schools was aided by rising population density.” I don’t understand how mass literacy triggered the industrial revolution. […]
Twitter: @tejucole
2011.11.19 – 03:10
tejucole Here’s a First World problem: the inability to see that others are as fully complex and as keen on technology and pleasure as you are.
Twitter: @tejucole
2011.11.19 – 03:10
tejucole People in the richer nations need a more robust sense of the lives being lived in the darker nations.
Blog: Marginal Revolution: *Making it in the Political Blogosphere*
2011.11.18 – 23:37
*Making it in the Political Blogosphere* Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution
Launching Tech Ventures: The Cognitive Startup
2011.11.18 – 16:49
Launching Tech Ventures: The Cognitive Startup The customer usage data collected through rapid prototyping and iteration is essentially building a limbic system—a gut—that gives feedback on how customers are responding to the product. But a gut is not sufficient.
Blog: Wired Science: How Many Neutrinos Does It Take to Screw Up Einstein?
2011.11.18 – 15:52
How Many Neutrinos Does It Take to Screw Up Einstein? Adam Mann, Wired Science
Jonathan Cohn: Why Don’t We Know Anything About The Quality Of America’s Day Care? | The New Republic
2011.11.18 – 15:18
Jonathan Cohn: Why Don’t We Know Anything About The Quality Of America’s Day Care? | The New Republic To be sure, measuring the quality of day care is difficult. It’s hard to find good ways to measure quality, let alone collect the information. In that sense, it’s the same problem that plagues efforts to measure […]
TGS and RATM, Arnold Kling
2011.11.18 – 11:18
TGS and RATM, Arnold Kling “My opinion is that the chances are increasing that we will see sudden ‘tipping’ in education away from traditional models. I think that the technology is pretty much here to do better than the old-fashioned classroom. It’s being held back by the incumbents, but they are going to lose, just […]
Amazon EC2 Now #42 Supercomputer, IBM BlueGenes in the Dust
2011.11.18 – 11:18
Amazon EC2 Now #42 Supercomputer, IBM BlueGenes in the Dust Fujitsu’s architecture for “K” is based on a theoretical six-dimensional torus, which reduces the hop count for processes between nodes by half or more, and which enables as many as 12 fault-tolerance failovers per node.
Scott Adams Blog: Questions about my Presidency 11/18/2011
2011.11.18 – 10:48
Scott Adams Blog: Questions about my Presidency 11/18/2011 “That was the secret of Jobs’ Rasputin-like charisma: He upgraded the context of every discussion to the bigger picture.”
Blog: Sabermetric Research: A research study is just a peer-reviewed argument
2011.11.18 – 09:07
A research study is just a peer-reviewed argument Phil Birnbaum, Sabermetric Research
Blog: The Monkey Cage: Underemphasized Points about the Economy and Elections
2011.11.18 – 08:37
Underemphasized Points about the Economy and Elections John Sides, The Monkey Cage
Tangotiger on knowing when you have added value
2011.11.17 – 14:21
Tangotiger on knowing when you have added value “Really, I figured: what is it that I as a single human being know more than the collective wisdom? I had no insight to add, that was really value-added. It’s hard for a person to recognize that he has nothing of value to add, but that’s how […]
A Fatal Mix of Intellect and Power
2011.11.17 – 12:48
A Fatal Mix of Intellect and Power But what if you have an intellectual movement that understands the flaws of intellectualism?
Blog: The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: Today In Syria
2011.11.17 – 12:07
Today In Syria Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan