ricardian ambivalence

Taleb’s anti-fragile fail

I dislike Taleb – i don’t like his tone, and his ideas aren’t original. He is not the genius he

It seems to have become common wisdom that Iron Ore’s whizz up to USD170 per tonne means that there is

A few months ago, Steve Losh posted on his keyboard setup. His setup is very intimidating impressive, but unfortunately his

Where do you look when you gaze at the above picture of a woman? Miratech have completed a study of

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted

I am a big fan of John Cook’s blog, and as a result I’ve been intrigued about using Python for

I almost decided to learn emacs, mostly so i could interact with a decent REPL. A little bit of googling

Prior to the RBA’s 4 December meeting, I figured that a 50bps cut was a higher probability than a 25bps

R is free, but learning it is costly. Thankfully, there are many good free resources available to help you get

For the past three years I have been chipping away at R — going up what has been a very

The market traded like it was short following the better than expected jobs data. At least that is one view

First of all, I need to acknowledge my bad forecast for headline real GDP — I had guessed at +0.25%q/q