School
School is going well, teaching "ASEN3128" at CU. I'm writing this mostly for myself, so apologies if you're a reader and find this post boring. Somehow writing for publication makes this seem easier...
View ArticleDiamond vs Tainter
@Adam: I'm also very interested in the Tainter/Diamond comparison.Diamond sez Tainter sez "how could you not anticipate a problem & fix it?" It's a fair assessment of some quotes from The Collapse...
View ArticleScience Friday, speech decoding
On Science Friday Ira had one of his occasional fantastic guests. He was exploring the brain, recording and playing back words. On the radio, you'd hear the actual spoken word, then you'd hear the...
View ArticleHolding The Bubble
Some days I go through life unconscious. Such days are indulgences, involving exercise, reading, food or music. By "unconscious" is meant just letting the day happen without thinking too much about...
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There is no mogul: ...the ontology of Outhouse.
OuthouseIn a cherished conversation with Miles, I once claimed you could ski bumps blind just by feeling the first one. The rest follow naturally, from the rhythm of the universe, the giant fft that is...
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Airplanes for CU!
Feedback from the class, some good: "Amazing lectures!" and... "Prof Krebs is great. He does a great job of connecting the dots and gives is an intuitive understanding of what's going on, more than...
View ArticleBoring Archive of Notes on Philosophy Podcasts
This is strictly a memory aid for me. I'm going to write these up after listening to philosophy podcasts. So, for those few of you paying attention to this blog, it's probably best to go away &...
View ArticleFFT(just about everything)
Listening to Brad Osgood on Fourier Series, and kinda reading at the notes.In the first lecture, his main point was that periodicity comes from the circle (eg sin, cos) and that frequency and...
View ArticleArticle 16
I need to write more. Looking back I remember being frightened with Miles in the car, afraid he was very sick, I have so much political frustration, making beer with Bernardo, watching William run the...
View ArticleMagic!
Election time, when we all think about economics.I've posted on Tribal Economy before & this is an amplification of that idea.The thing is, I want to tell you that I've found this miraculous elixir...
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Article 14
Ghostwritten by David MitchellMy rating: 4 of 5 starsSo cruising along in this book, somewhere near the end of the beginning, thinking, "hey, it's kinda like #9 dream" only more disjoint & hard to...
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airplane
Airplane from last spring. Idea is to have roll and yaw coupled correctly with the same command. It's like a ventral rudder, but doesn't get scraped off when you land.
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Hops!
This is about 2/3 of the hops. It's the second year and they grew great. No aphid problem this year (I used a fertilizer treatment Jack recommended) but I did have a bunch of tiny caterpillars, that...
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Econ: half baked, so far. Stay tuned.
Economics heats up in an election year. Here are MY thoughts.(1) I believe the Fed is mostly a good thing, the gold standard is silly. Gold's a commodity like anything else, and pegging money to it...
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Article 8
Here's how you make money, Romney style:You start with a little seed money, and a company you're going to buy for collateral,...you get a company sized loan,...pay the old CEO some hush money (get the...
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Article 6
The Fed is acting. Just look at this plot. Never mind understanding it at first, just look. That's what the Fed owns. The big picture is "something's up!" I'm trying to understand what, in more...
View ArticleHelp, I've fallen in a rat hole!
With a double Americano and a philosophy podcast, I have had an introduction to paraconsistent logic. That, unfortunately, is exactly what it sounds like, either of the dictionary meanings "near" or...
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