Prior Analytics
9 July 2010, 19:23 UTCIncoherent Prediction Markets?
I have known about prediction markets for some time, and find botboth the theoretical arguments and the evidence convincing. But only today did I register for one and look around. I found something odd.
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22 June 2010, 2:15 UTCWho Knows Best?
Ann Nicholson just pointed me to an excellent discussion of two approaches to behavioral economics: nudge vs. regulate.
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22 June 2010, 1:13 UTCEmacs Calendar & pdfLaTeX
How to print emacs calendar landscape using pdfLaTeX.
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13 April 2010, 1:12 UTCRiding the E+ Sun Ray EZ Recumbent
6 April 2010, 18:46 UTCPerformance-Weighted Opinions
27 March 2010, 1:00 UTCYudkowsky on Priors
2 February 2010, 19:28 UTCFundamental Law
14 January 2010, 2:39 UTCPhoto in The Fairest
19 November 2009, 21:47 UTCProbability Words
6 November 2009, 15:12 UTCExplosives Divining Rod
6 November 2009, 10:58 UTCConsistency
31 October 2009, 0:57 UTCPHIL 721 Advanced Seminar: Causation
22 October 2009, 3:29 UTCBNs for Intelligence Analysis
21 October 2009, 23:59 UTCBNs for Initiative Assessment
6 October 2009, 13:33 UTCNetbooks vs Thinkpad X40
14 September 2009, 19:12 UTCpasswd:
13 August 2009, 0:37 UTCPay Too Much For Food & Power
6 November 2008, 16:51 UTCGelman on the Election
9 October 2008, 3:32 UTCRail vs. Bus
5 August 2008, 12:12 UTCBicycle Helmets & Pedestrian Casualties
9 July 2008, 14:58 UTCReston to GMU Bike Route -- Updated
1 July 2008, 21:45 UTCCorrelation & Causation
18 June 2008, 20:38 UTCThe Crowd Within
16 June 2008, 19:40 UTCAudiophiles, Significance Tests, Greenspun's Tenth Rule
10 June 2008, 13:27 UTCDemocracy
13 March 2008, 0:24 UTCKrugman on Interstellar Trade
6 March 2008, 1:33 UTCScience & Magic
29 November 2007, 1:58 UTCFixed Links
10 October 2007, 16:41 UTCAviation collision experiments
22 September 2007, 14:52 UTCPay for free software
(Originally written in about 2004. Moving off the main page.)
Support free software by using it. If you can, support it by
developing it. If, like most of us, you use far more free software
than you can ever contribute, do the right thing and pay for
it. Pay as you can, what you can. Anything over about $2 will
make a difference. (If you feed them, they will code.) It doesn't
take much, and you get to set the price anyway.
In addition to spot donations ("Yay AbiWord read my old WP51
files! $42!") I now include various projects in my annual
charity budget. Had I remained in Windows, I would have accepted
the idea of paying a couple of hundred every few years, just for
the OS. So why not now?
I can't possibly pay for all the software I use on a
free-software platform like Debian. Some I just don't notice,
and some I tend to take for granted, like [X]emacs. But I can
cover myself here by donating to large projects like:
- The Free Software
Foundation. They set the standard and fight the
fight. Plus, they produce Emacs, the gcc compiler suite,
and lots of other software that we use all the time.
Several members of Monash CSSE together paid a year's
organizational membership to FSF, and now our tea room is
an annual member.
- Big projects
like, Debian,
Gnome, and so forth.
The same principle applies to community service organizations: if you can't give the time, but it's
important to you, give some money to someone who can. I think most
people do this already, so I'll spare you my list of favorites.