Misterburns
Re:Want To Read Others' Thoughts? Try Reading Literary Fiction
on Monday October 14, 2013 @11:50AM (#6547918)
Yes reading nonfiction maximizes knowledge absorption with respect to time and cost. But that is not the objective of literary fiction.
Literary fiction maximizes "emotional sensation". This is a futile attribute in humans who should instead be maximizing their utility.
Re:Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2013: Trendspotting in asset markets
on Monday October 14, 2013 @11:37AM (#6547836)
Your statements about scientists are an overfit.
Randomized controlled trials: http://m.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/05/17/100517fa_fact_pa...
Re:Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2013: Trendspotting in asset markets
on Monday October 14, 2013 @11:25AM (#6547749)
Randomized controlled trials to study poverty:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/86...
Game. Set. Match.
Re:Why getting the Obamacare exchanges to work was difficult
on Saturday October 05, 2013 @03:49PM (#6501808)
I used to work in government IT. A lot of people are wondering why the projects so pricey and why there are so many issues.
1) The RFQ/bidding process isn't as logical as you'd imagine.
2) There are layers on top of layers on top of layers of bureaucracy. The government is its own regulator, not the market. There are no shareholders or VCs that can curtail the government's power. Elections and recalls are slower signals by orders of magnitude.
3) government projects fail all the time. You just don't hear about it because then heads would roll, which is faux past in the public sector.