Link. Easy to teach and learn, takes discipline to apply. After decades of neglect sleep gets attention.
Monthly Archives: November 2013
Financing rooftop solar arrays through securitization.
Link. In MN we get hail. Sapphire panels?
Wolfram Language (and Mathematica) on Every Raspberry Pi
Link. Like BASIC on early PC. Mathematica is $$, so bit odd.
Entertaining review of encryption and randimness.
Link. Not new, but well done.
One man’s story of falling all the way down.
Link. Life is a rough game.
LEDs can’t be used like 60W bulbs — they have severe cooling issues
Link. They produce less heat than incandescents, but they can’t handle it.
Gruber, like me, was caught out by Apple’s confusing iCloud photo stream tech note.
Link. There’s no real change. Maybe in 2014. Grrrr.
Wonderful rant on audiophiles, pseudo-science and “Engineer’s Disease”
Link. ED is real at least.
Boehner Fails to Fail on Obamacare
Link. He got his plan. Humiliation.
Genre: female dinosaur porn.
Link. Narrowcasting income in the post-industrial economy.
The other R word: redistribution. ACA edition.
Link. R is also for Risk pool.
UK “domestic slavery” case is definitely weird.
Link. Coercion of some sort. What sort is the question.
NYT article on recreational use of testostetone gel doesn’t mention this is anabolic steroid.
Link. Roids, as in baseball. Does NYT not know this?
MN passes WI on the left.
Link. Unfair, MN has long been richer, more educated.
ACA great news for startups.
Link. Esp good for involuntary entrepreneurs age 50-67.
Weighing the Risks of Going Without Health Insurance.
Link. Avoid Avoid skiing, mountain biking, alcohol..,
Anthera violates rules on drug trial disclosure.
Link. Do they exist to prevent disclosure when a trial fails?
The Oral Microbiome and periodontitis
Link. 2011. Kissing my wife hasn’t given me her gingivitis resistance.
Wonkblog on why Deborah Sontag’s buprenorphine was journalistic malpractice.
Link. I thought psychiatry and pain medicine were tough, but Addiction Medicine may be the hardest of all.
Wonderful review of recent research on distribution of prime numbers.
Link. Mathematicians working in teams and individually – and one Subway employees leap to fame. (Store needs a plaque.)
1973 vs. 2013: Stagflation vs Stagbubbilation
Link. History never repeats.
Healthcare.gov – now compared to Bay of Pigs.
Link. Kennedy overload continues, but the leadership failures are similar.
NYT article on female “sexual competition” and norm-enforcement …
Link. Would be interesting to extend study to norm enforcement in social networks.
False accusation of cyber-bullying by “outraged” DA.
Link. Florida doesn’t protect juveniles.
Healthcare.gov report: knives out for Sebelius.
Link. She is sooo gone, the top of CMS needs to go too.
Deflation continues: PPI drops.
Link. Taxing savings would be popular :-).
Bargain: bailout of GM cost 10 billion in end.
Link. It worked.
Europe makes US look good.
Link. Best of the bad is faint praise.
Conservative Alternative to Obamacare.
Link. Funny. GOP would not do this in a billion years.
Acer looks hopeless.
Link. iPhone was the end.
Whitewater times: S&P 2000 vs 2013.
Link. MCI was big in 2000. Free money transforming corporate landscape.
Pre-Snowden NSA dreams: how much have they really stopped?
Link. Tea Party doesn’t mind.
Texas Education Board Stupidity may be managed.
Link. Not as bad as one might expect, at least by Texas standards.
“QE is likely going to be around for a while, just as a matter of mathematical necessity.”
Link. Peter pays Paul.
Google eliminating alternative SMS clients for Google Voice.
Link. GV Mobile+ is one. Infinite SMS is already gone.
Tea Party senses that McConnell wanted filibuster to fall so he could get things done.
Link. I assume McConnell couldn’t stop Reid, but I think TP is right he didn’t want to.
China moves up the value chain in the burgeoning surveillance state market.
Link. Fortunately the US is very competitive in this area.
Claim: Safari better than Chrome.
Link. Except Chrome runs on Windows too — and I rely on Chrome’s profile switch. I can’t go back.
Terpstra on app.net broadcast: because RSS is going away?
Link. I’m a fan of the app.net dev team, but I don’t get Broadcast.
Fallows on busting the filibuster: Finally!
Link. Elections have consequences, and if the Tea Party wins we deserve what they will do. We need a working government.
Charlie Stross free short: A Bird in Hand.
Link. I liked his comp sci model for genome.
Five kinds of boredom.
Link. I’ve only ever felt "Reactant boredom", but I guess I have a narrow range.
What country is this? “… engages in serial, self-inflicted economic upheaval”
Link. Argentina actually, but you were thinking US weren’t you?
In Our Time does Pocahontas – who has a connection to Shakespear’s The Tempest
Link. "Over 100,000 people claim descent from Pocahontas through the child she had with Rolfe"
Counting sheep for a living.
Link. 1,2,30,60,100, oh heck. 500.
Frederick Sanger: The father of genomics. Obit.
Link. Rare thing: an apparently modest Nobelist.
Nanotech assemblers moving molecules.
Link. Drexler laughing now.
GOP to devote all energy to fighting ACA.
Link. Operation Red Cape is working.
Kristof “rehoming” allegations are damned serious.
Link. We need real data. "some accounts" is a red flag. If he’s wildly wrong NYT needs to retire him.
German sadomonetarism.
Link. High heels and whip imagined.