Macroeconomics considered harmful
Most work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst.
-- Paul Krugman.
Most work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst.
-- Paul Krugman.
When someone thinks of global warming, they think of a politicized, polarized argument. When you say 'global warming,' a certain group of Americans think that's a code word for progressive liberals, gay marriage and other such issues.
"Most researchers want to put this in the greater context of their own research."
-- Greg Mankiw
Diversification means investing in something uncorrelated,
not inversely correlated.
Stanford program: http://cleanslate.stanford.edu
Carnegie Mellon program: http://100x100network.org
Rutgers program: http://orbit-lab.org
NSF's GENI: http://geni.net
DJ Ted Stevens Techno Remix: "A Series of Tubes"
Let's say you have a landscape with a bunch of hills,
and you want to find the highest mountain. String
theory is a hill, and loop quantum gravity is a hill,
and so are spin foam models and twistor theory
and causal sets and brane worlds.
So some scientists are good hill climbers. You set
them on a slope, and they incrementally advance
the science upward. Other scientists are good
explorers – valley crossers – who find new slopes.
The problem we have now is that science is dominated
by hill climbers. They've found the tops of the hills,
and they're just defending the hill.
And meanwhile, the truth is somewhere over there.
-- Lee Smolin