These are a first set of impressionistic notes taken from various sessions yesterday.
Wednesday AM: Janos Kornai: Life and WorksNo real notes from this `session’ but some comments from the Q&D caught my attention:
Janos Kornai: Let me paint a dark picture: today we have become a machine for manufacturing economists. All papers are [...]
This week I’m in Budapest for the EEA/ESEM annual congress. I’ll be presenting Cumulative Innovation, Sampling and the Hold-Up Problem in the ESEM stream on Friday afternoon in the 1500-1700 slot. I’ll gradually post further notes as I write them over the week.
Much of this was inspired by this blog post. Having tested on my own set of files I would suggest that these methods could be ranked in order of accuracy as:
TexCount.pl untex + wc wc pdf file wc $ wc -w file.texThis is very simple but is pretty inaccurate since wc has [...]
6.5/10. Excellent performances and a interesting tale well told but the central character was just so dislikable and the wrap-up was something of a let-down.
8/10. Reread this classic. Sparse prose and elegant treatment of an ancient theme, viz the corrupting nature of power and the fear of death, combine to make a wonderful book far above the average of this genre.
8.5/10. A fascinating, brilliantly written book which despite its biographical nature is one of the best histories of the Vietnam War I have read.
This is a simple hack to enable you to start OpenOffice and, more importantly, open documents with it from the command line. I’ve got the standard X port of OpenOffice 2.0 installed, so if you have something different you may need to change the path to soffice given below (to find soffice on your machine [...]
4.5/10. Very mediocre, especially considering the quality of the original books by Ursula Le Guin and the standard of previous Studio Ghibli productions.
Quite a lot of open source and open knoweldge projects use micro donations — sums of $5 or less. It is interesting to note that if you, as a donor, give $1 via PayPal (one of the most popular payment systems) paypal charge 35 cents. That means at the $1 level transaction costs (excluding [...]
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