I have had Fuel bookmarked for a while, and I’m not even sure when or why I first bookmarked it, I think there was some article about uh, something. Anyway, it mostly sits in my bookmarks unchecked because it seems to link to similar crap that Undrln does, only way worse. Both are something of [...]
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Interesting news in the Telegraph today. According to a study, it requires just 8.2 seconds to fall in lurve (for men). The Article: The longer a man’s gaze rests on a woman when they meet for the first time, the more interested he is. If it last just four seconds, he may not be all [...]
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Those who know me surely know that I am a bit of on amateur economist… and full time liar. Brad DeLong has written up a nice FAQ over on his blog about the Geithner Plan to purchase the distressed assets and all.. It’s a good read, but we know what will always jump out at [...]
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When I first visited Los Angeles I knew there was something different about it. It was like the sunny and 75 days made people just a little more chillaxed. No need to lay on the horn in traffic, man, cos you’re not getting anywhere any faster anyway. After moving out here I heard a term, [...]
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I got my bonus from the work today, which was a nice surprise.. and naturally my thoughts turned to “how should I spend this in a manner that can help this troubled economy the most?” Naturally my thoughts turned to Bubs and finally procuring that emerald studded collar I always promised I’d get her, but [...]
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This post is dedicated to Strongo who just again marveled me with his amazing math skills. Strongo suffers from Gamblers fallacy. Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman proposed that the gambler’s fallacy is a cognitive bias produced by a psychological heuristic called therepresentativeness heuristic [3][4]. According to this view, “after observing a long run of red on the roulette [...]
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Well, it feels like it’s been a while since one of those good ol’ fashioned quantum physics posts.. but much like the idea of then, that time has passed. From The Economist Since its birth in the 1920s, physicists and philosophers have grappled with the bizarre consequences that his theory has for reality, including the [...]
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I made a mix of some songs that make me think of the midwest. There is a strange feeling I have when I fly over these states, all laid out in green grids. There are a lot of smells I have forgotten until one moment I am struck by the scent and it all comes [...]