“In 2003 Medicare spent less than 2 percent of its resources on administration, while private insurance companies spent more than 13 percent.”
Source: Paul Krugman and Robin Wells, The Health Care Crisis and What to Do About It, New York Review of Books, Volume 53, Number 5, March 23, 2006.
This implies that a [...]
8/10. A well above average thriller slightly let down by its ending (as is frequently the way with these things).
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman. 10/10. A very, very great novel, a work of genius, more than comparable to War and Peace or any other of the epics. Only a Russian novel, one feels, could both have such a title and live up to it — what it is about Russian culture that enables [...]
I’m now at iCommons conference in Dubrovnik and the first keynote (a joint presentation by Jonathan Zittrain and Lawrence Lessig) has just finished. Herewith is an (extremely) condensed summary of the session with editorial comments.
Jonathan ZittrainZittrain delivers his usual, brilliant, witty, sparkling talk. I worry a little that the brilliance papers over some [...]
This week I’ve been at the ZEW summer workshop on The Economics of Information and Communication Technologies: A European and International Perspective in Mannheim. I presented my paper on the The Control of Porting in Two-Sided Markets (slides here) and commented on The Impact of Information Diffusion on Bidding Behaviour and [...]
An (ongoing) summary of my experience with some of the utilities available for plotting from a python perspective.
Last updated: 2008-03-06
Ploticus (+) Fast, powerful, mature, well-documented (-) Not python basedC-based rather than python-based but fast and powerful. There is a (fairly crude) set of python bindings available here: http://www.srcc.lsu.edu/~davids/ploticus_module.html. Alternatively one can [...]
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Dr. Rufus Pollock is co-Founder and Director of the Open Knowledge Foundation, a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow, and an Associate of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge.
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