Undecidable financial contracts, crowdsourcing nepotism and explaining the Nobel Prize.
We got it all...
- Financial Derivatives - just intractable or formally undecidable?
- see comment by "Ken" at 20 Oct 09 11:39
yes, it looks like you can do arithmetic and boolean algebra with financial derivaties, and create undecidable statement. - Whose Kid Are You - ever wondered how your boss
rose so quickly fromskipped the mailroom and took over?
The Y-Ranter is starting a crowdsourced "Whose Kid Are You" - a pedia of nepotism and backscratching.
Brilliant. I wonder if we can have one for Iceland.
With graphs!
And subgraphs!
Ayieee! No, the networks of nepotism may be intractably hard to unwind.
Aaaaarrrrrggggghhhhh!!!!!! - I knew it was something like that... - The Nobel Prize explained, at last.
- iDice Man - a Universe Splitter App.
- In which Chad destroys the Universe - again and again.
- Rachel finds anomalous data in COSMOS - formally inconsistent with GR, at marginal significance. May go away with reanalysis, but intriguing.
- The Tardigrade Knows - Information Processing on steps towards Schrodinger's Virus.
- Somebodies feelings were hurt?
More like this
Permit me a wee bit of nepotism. My brother Ben is on ABC News: World News tonight to celebrate National Dictionary Day. He talks about how language evolves in weird ways.
Reflecting upon my high school science education, there isn't very much I can remember.
Okay, gossip really isn't my thing and I'm not going to make a habit of it, but I'm really kind of surprised by this.
I had no idea how deeply involved nepotism was in the New York Times' decision to hire William Kristol as an op-ed writer. From the Greenwald: