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Is the Economy Legible

I am an amateur in most of the fields that I enjoy commenting on in this blog. In my own field, I get as annoyed as anyone else when an ill-informed outsider buts in. Nevertheless, like Chesterton, I think amateurs ought to be allowed their say, especially since so many

Linkfest 2017-07-14

The Last Barfighter: An Arcade Game That Pours You A Beer If You Win. Genius. Utilities fighting against rooftop solar are only hastening their own doom This is an interesting article. I have two primary questions: do all utilities make money the same way? This article claims they only make

Linkfest 2017-06-16

Is Islam the rock on which the liberal order broke? Razib Khan's Brown Pundits post on whether liberalism broadly construed can stand against the intransigence of Islam. Think wine connoisseurship is nonsense? Blind-tasting data suggest otherwise It is easy to make fun of the expensive culture of wine

Linkfest 2017-06-09

* How the gearheads at Pixar made Cars 3 more realistic than you might think I love the movie Cars, and I am very excited about Cars 3, which looks less like a cashing-in on the initial success of the first movie sequel [you gotta pay for studios somehow] and more

College Learning Assessment Plus

The Wall Street Journal has an article up on the CLA+ test, with an accompanying data set from 68 public colleges obtained through FOIA requests. I put all the data in an EXCEL style spreadsheet as well. I always like to plot my data, so here is a scatterplot matrix

Linkfest 2017-06-03

Speaking from experience: a note on mysticism and religion Niall Gooch's attempt to expand on a distinction between a mystical experience and a religious one. Three Polish Poems BD Sixsmith agrees with Niall in poetic form. Working memory training in healthy young adults: Support for the null from

Linkfest 2017-04-07

* The 15th-Century Monk Who Crowdsourced a Map of the World A really fun map, and as the article reluctantly notes, not especially credulous about the tall tales travelers shared. * How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers’ Buttons I've linked stories on Uber's evil genius