Saturday, July 26, 2014

Inefficient accounting

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Recent research that shows conflicting and confusing but significant impact on stock prices during policy discussions around a suggested ch...
Friday, July 25, 2014

Autoimmune games

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Recent news from Johns Hopkins that game theory could have applications in cancer treatment is in a profitable direction. Windows of predict...
Monday, July 21, 2014

Data neutrality

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As the “net neutrality” debate kicks in – effectively forced by a handful of monopolistic companies who almost already control the internet ...
Sunday, July 13, 2014

Don’t cry for me

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It was an enjoyable spectacle – something that lifted the spirit of at least half the world. Sport, perhaps the only human invention, that m...
Saturday, July 12, 2014

Engineers discover uncertainty

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A recent paper in Science describes simulations and systematic analyses of uncertainty as a way to simplify predictions of material properti...
Sunday, July 6, 2014

The end of mind?

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In a recent study (1), the authors seem to have made the following interesting observation: “In 11 studies, we found that participants typ...
Friday, July 4, 2014

The education gap

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A recent article in NY times points out correctly that there is a subtle difference between the statement that “the US has the best universi...
Thursday, July 3, 2014

Stupidity of the crowds

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Recent research from the Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands show that Chimpanzees quickly copy arbitrary behavior...