The GOP's McCarthy gene (Neal Gabler/Los Angeles Times) (1)
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Neal Gabler / Los Angeles Times: The GOP's McCarthy gene — Think Goldwater is the father of conservatism? Think again. — Ever since the election, partisans within the Republican Party and observers outside it have been speculating wildly about what direction the GOP will take to revive itself from its disaster.
Liberal / conservative and population density (1)
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Bill Harris writes: Could it be that liberals / Democrats are more likely found in regions of high population density and that conservatives are more likely found in regions of low population density? Is it credible that low population density encourages people to think they control their own destiny (there are fewer around to help them) and that there are few limits to their growth (those in Alaska probably run up against fewer obvious limits ...
Why I Was Wrong... (1)
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Calculated Risk issues an invitation: Calculated Risk: Hoocoodanode?: Earlier today, I saw Greg "Bush economist" Mankiw was a little touchy about a Krugman blog comment. My reaction was that Mankiw has some explaining to do. A key embarrassment for the economics profession in general, and Bush economists Greg Mankiw and Eddie Lazear in particular, is how they missed the biggest economic story of our times.... This was a typical response from the right (this is ...
U.S. 'Not Getting What We Pay For' - washingtonpost.com (3)
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"Just draw on your video and have your drawing move with the video?" No waOOOOOOH CRAP!! (3)
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A Bumper Crop of Machine Learning Graduates (2)
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My impression is that this is a particularly strong year for machine learning graduates. Here’s my short list of the strong graduates I know. Analpha (for perversity’s sake) by last name: Jenn Wortmann. When Jenn visited us for the summer, she had one, two, three, four papers. That is typical—she’s smart, capable, and follows up many directions of research. I believe approximately all of her many papers are on different subjects. Ruslan Salakhutdinov. A Science ...
More Ignorant Questions (3)
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It's still not clear to me why we're not doing this bank bailout thing more like the Brits. The UK is 'bailing out' the Royal Bank of Scotland, which operates Citizens Bank here in the US. But it works a little differently over there. The government ended up buying almost 60% of the company, after the bank's existing shareholders bought only a tiny percentage of a new offering. So the government owns 60% of the ...
A Win-Win Bankruptcy Reform (Rich Leonard/Washington Post) (1)
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Rich Leonard / Washington Post: A Win-Win Bankruptcy Reform — I watched a middle-aged widow lose her home recently. — Her story was familiar. She owned her simple brick residence outright until four years ago, when a mortgage broker stopped by and offered her a loan too good to be true.
Google's Nicole Wong (2)
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TECH BUZZ: Nicole Wong is like Google's Secretary-of-State. She negotiates on Google's behalf with repressive governments that want to limit free speech. This is a real problem: Turkey banned YouTube, Saudi Arabia banned Orkut, and blogger is banned in Pakistan. Nicole Wong cuts the deals that gets these services running again. For example Ms. Wong managed to get YouTube unblocked in Thailand by agreeing to remove videos that make fun of the Thai King. You ...
Google's Nicole Wong (1)
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TECH BUZZ: Nicole Wong is like Google's Secretary-of-State. She negotiates on Google's behalf with repressive governments that want to limit free speech. This is a real problem: Turkey banned YouTube, Saudi Arabia banned Orkut, and blogger is banned in Pakistan. Nicole Wong cuts the deals that gets these services running again. For example Ms. Wong managed to get YouTube unblocked in Thailand by agreeing to remove videos that make fun of the Thai King. You ...
Things Missing from the Internet (3)
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Aaron Swartz reports on weblogs he would like to read: Blogs I Would Like to Read (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought): The Wonk Wing: Thoughtful exploration of important policy issues by decent writers who are clearly fascinated by their subject. Not only would you get a first-class education in the relevant issues around health care, global warming, urban sprawl, zoning, traffic, sewage, etc. but you'd have fun while doing it. Think Ezra Klein for more than ...
The Monetary History of the United States (1)
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Paul Krugman notes that we now have an ongoing test of Keynes-Bernanke vs. Friedman-Schwartz accounts of the Great Depression: Paul Krugman: Has anyone else noticed that the current crisis sheds light on one of the great controversies of economic history? A central theme of Keynes’s General Theory was the impotence of monetary policy in depression-type conditions. But Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz, in their magisterial monetary history of the United States, claimed that the Fed ...
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