Baseball and the Art of the Possible
“In fact, the beauty he should prefer — or, at least, that I prefer — is the moment before the blackbird whistles. It could sound like anything, one imagines.”
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Baseball and the Art of the Possible
# 2012.10.30 – 11:04
Theodicy
Theodicy
“Is it possible to believe in a loving God who is omnipotent … in the face of the massive sufferings of human beings and animals? … Most do so with an appeal to mystery sooner or later, since experience and evidence contradict the initial assumptions: divine omnipotence, divine goodness, and the reality of evil and suffering.
# 2012.10.30 – 10:50
Yeshayah Goldfarb helps Giants win the World Series championship
Yeshayah Goldfarb helps Giants win the World Series championship
“Yeshayah remembers growing up in such an environment — an eclectic mix of baseball and Jewish observance.”
# 2012.10.30 – 10:37
Blog: Sabermetric Research: Would Toyota sell fewer cars if they raised the price by a penny?
# 2012.10.30 – 10:07
Blog: Barking Up The Wrong Tree: What do you want to achieve before you die?
# 2012.10.30 – 09:44
Blog: The Feature: The Fifty-Nine-Story Crisis
# 2012.10.29 – 11:52
Blog: Barking Up The Wrong Tree: What are the 18 secrets to giving a presentation like Steve Jobs?
# 2012.10.29 – 11:15
Blog: Dilbert.com Blog: The Software Form of Government
# 2012.10.29 – 11:15
Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite
Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite
“Men who are personally incorrupt can be the worst monsters — again, Robespierre — because they lose their humanity in worship of abstractions. Cruelty and despotism is in our nature.”
# 2012.10.29 – 08:24
Blog: FanGraphs Baseball: Sergio Romo and the Tim Wakefield Fastball
# 2012.10.29 – 07:41
Quote from Tumblr
The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present concept of education. Education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries, either by job-training or by industry-subsidized research. It’s proper use is to enable citizens to live lives that are economically, politically, socially, and culturally responsible. This cannot be done by gathering or “accessing” what we now call “information” – which is to say facts without context and therefore without priority. A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.
Wendell Berry
# 2012.10.28 – 23:56
Limits and Conscientious Consumption
Limits and Conscientious Consumption
“According to various news reports and studies, child slavery is endemic in West Africa’s cocoa plantations, particularly in Cote d’Ivoire, the source of 35 percent of the world’s chocolate.”
# 2012.10.28 – 23:27
Geographic History Enjoys a Renaissance : The New Yorker
Geographic History Enjoys a Renaissance : The New Yorker
“That a modern state was searching, at great expense and at a cost to its own war effort, to find a fifteen-year-old girl in an attic in Amsterdam in order to get her on a train bound for a concentration camp in Poland showed something new in the theatre of human action. You had to be the captive of an idea, not the inhabitant of a bloody terrain, to do that.”
# 2012.10.28 – 15:29
Michigan bridge saga a lesson in two democracies
# 2012.10.27 – 10:20
RadioShack Is Doing Something Better Than Any Other Retailer
RadioShack Is Doing Something Better Than Any Other Retailer
“The firm found that RadioShack’s average time responding to customer calls was just three seconds. That compares with two minutes for Ikea and three minutes for Apple.”
# 2012.10.26 – 21:49
Blog: Svbtle Featured: Moneyball for Votes
# 2012.10.26 – 18:53
Blog: The American Conservative » Rod Dreher: ‘War, The Great Leveler’
# 2012.10.26 – 08:26
Still playing moneyball: An exclusive interview with Billy Beane – Athletics Nation
Still playing moneyball: An exclusive interview with Billy Beane – Athletics Nation
“Farhan was saying it the first month of the season and then May 1 he sent a long email, which was a ‘Moss Manifesto’, basically with a lot of statistical analysis saying that we needed to give this guy a chance.”
# 2012.10.25 – 11:21
Blog: Seth’s Blog: The only purpose of ‘customer service’…
# 2012.10.25 – 09:06
Why Things Fail: From Tires to Helicopter Blades, Everything Breaks Eventually | Wired Design | Wired.com
Why Things Fail: From Tires to Helicopter Blades, Everything Breaks Eventually | Wired Design | Wired.com
“Models tend to assume components that are identical in their material composition. The result is that virtual components tend to fail at the same time in every simulation. But actual failures will occur in that bell-shaped distribution. If you could simulate that curve in software, you could finally get the upper hand on risk.”
# 2012.10.24 – 21:39