Overthinking a problem…

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Food for thought

If you happen to have some time on your hands these videos may well be worth your time. First, on our inability to understand the exponential function, a lecture:

Although it is not news (and has not been for a few hundred years), it certainly is a reminder of things I sometimes [...]

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OK, I’m getting a Tablet PC…

From the Engineering Windows 7 blog:

The Math Input Panel or MIP is designed to be used with a tablet pen on a Tablet PC, but you can use it with any input device such as a touchscreen, external digitizer or even a mouse. MIP outputs the recognition result via the clipboard in MathML format, a [...]

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Future mobility

Read this:
Cellphones – Third World and Developing Nations – Poverty – Technology – New York Times
Things will be very different in the future…

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How to Save the Suburbs

This interesting interview reminds me of something i think Krugman has said somewhere, that economics is about telling stories.
Energy prices have nothing to do with it. I said that at the time. They can accelerate the process, but what drives it is the shift in consumer preferences. Gen Xers and Millennials want a lifestyle closer [...]

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Funny!

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Money…

A lot of money:
According to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Energy, the United States is importing 12-14 million barrels of oil per day. At a current price of about $115 per barrel, that’s $1.5 billion per day, or $548 billion per year.

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Well…

I particularly like the laconic “done some checking”…
None of this nor the rest of the grimness on the front page today will matter a bit, though, if two men pursuing a lawsuit in federal court in Hawaii turn out to be right. They think a giant particle accelerator that will begin smashing protons together outside [...]

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Free Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business

From an article in Wired (Free Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business). I hadn’t thought of it quite like this:
Likewise, newspaper and magazine publishers dont charge readers anything close to the actual cost of creating, printing, and distributing their products. Theyre not selling papers and magazines to readers, theyre selling readers to advertisers. Its [...]

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Orientering

Det är stora kontraster mellan Tokyo och Perth. Inte minst på ett sätt som min kollega Joel skrivit om. Tokyo domineras av smala gator utan någon vidare ordning, så de följer till exempel inte speciellt ofta något rutmönster. Det finns oftast inte heller några distinkta berg eller kullar att orientera efter. För min del kändes [...]

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