As a member of the Econometric Society I received yesterday the following announce:
The Council and the Fellowship of the Econometric Society have both voted in favor of a plan for the Society to publish two open-access journals: Quantitative Economics (QE) and Theoretical Economics (TE). All voting Council members were in favor of [...]
For large data centres a big industry player estimated costs of £22 / GB / Month = £250k / TB / Year. Majority of this was hardware and energy costs (not costs of human sysadmins). This seems quite a lot. However, Amazon S3 quote for Europe (cheaper for US):
Storage $0.18 per GB-Month of storage [...]Several years ago I read Michael Kremer’s article entitled “Randomized Evaluations of Educational Programs in Developing Countries: Some Lessons” in the 2003 AER Papers and Proceedings issue ([jstor link]( http://www.jstor.org/stable/view/3132208?seq=3)). This brief article reviewed some of the recent results of evaluating the effects of various different programs on educational outcomes in the developing world. [...]
I’ve just posted some early stage notes on models related to ‘Complex Systems’ with a particular eye towards those dealing with self-ordered criticality.
The Open Rights Group, which I helped found, celebrated its second birthday today. Long may it prosper, promoting and protecting digital rights in a digital age.
2.10. Robustness Principle
TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.
Source:
rfc793: specification for TCP date: 1981 editor: Jon Postel url: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/rfc/rfc793.txtAbout a week ago I finally got around to converting from .doc to html some of my more substantial essays from my schooldays. They’re up at http://www.rufuspollock.org/nonfiction/ and you can find more or less substantial pieces on the Vietnam War, the decline of the Liberal Party in Great Britain in the early 20th century, [...]
He is supposed to determine whether Britain is still functioning on the basis of whether or not the Today programme is still broadcasting. If it isn’t he has to retrieve from his safe the PM’s letter instructing him to: 1. Put himself under the command of the USA, if it is still there. 2. [...]
Stare into the fridge in a zen-like manner and contemplate what you might possibly tolerate.
Feature Importance Comments Centralized remote repository 3 Can work offline (with syncing when back online) 3 xml (rdf?) storage format 3 make our own (can’t use vcal/ical unfortunately) export to html and …. 2 trivial (use some xsl) integration with a calendar app … 1 difficult and in that case we might as well try [...]
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