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links for 2010-09-16
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Actually not bad slogans for tattoo seekers: "I regretted this one almost immediately." "Future long-sleeve lover."
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links for 2010-09-15
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1yr in Banking vs. 1yr in a startup environmentManagers at TheLadders spend more time on talent development in a day than I experienced at Morgan Stanley in a year. Analyst programs in investment banking are typically two years stints, at which point most analysts join Private Equity firms or Hedge Funds for better hours and higher pay. The big banks have a really hard time keeping people, and their HR teams have tried all sorts of things to up retention. Unfortunately for them, they are stuck in a vicious cycle. Since analysts are in and out in two years, and likely only “all there” for 1.5 years (3 months ramping and 3 months of “senioritis”), senior group members have very little incentive to form long-lasting relationships/mentorships
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"Work With Us" destroys "Free Consultation" Pretty clear to me - the first one conveys high status while the second one signals that they're desperate for work. Bain doesn't give out free consultations. "We know it’s hard to believe that the “Work with Us” beat “Free Consultation,” especially by such a huge 171% lift and considering the later is actually offering something for free. We think this test shows the importance of testing call to action copy because you rarely truly know what’s going to convince your audience to act unless you test it."
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Funny
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links for 2010-09-14
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"Ryan’s game plans are designed to create confusion and anxiety in opposing backfields. There is always the suspenseful feeling that sorties of blitzers are about to come. Sometimes they do arrive in numbers, sometimes they travel alone and sometimes it’s “simulated pressure” and nobody comes at all. Players who are listed in the program at one position turn up elsewhere: defensive ends retreating to safety; linebackers morphing inside and out like peppered moths — so many linebackers flying around the flame. It’s a hybrid landscape and a distorted one. There is the unsettling realization that trouble can come from anywhere. During Ryan’s 10 seasons with Baltimore, the Ravens allowed fewer points than any other defense and the fewest running yards. Skeptics noted that fortifying Ryan’s play-calling was a human portcullis — middle linebacker Ray Lewis, the best defender of his time. Then last year Ryan arrived in New York, where immediately the Jets defense ranked first in the N.F.L
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False confessions are common: "But more than 40 others have given confessions since 1976 that DNA evidence later showed were false, according to records compiled by Brandon L. Garrett, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. Experts have long known that some kinds of people — including the mentally impaired, the mentally ill, the young and the easily led — are the likeliest to be induced to confess. There are also people like Mr. Lowery, who says he was just pressed beyond endurance by persistent interrogators."
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[T]here are two technologies for producing automobiles in America. One is to manufacture them in Detroit, and the other is to grow them in Iowa.
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author sets aside $10/week to give to homeless, a friend of hers writes a yearly check and doesn't give any money. i'm always interested in solutions to this problem
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YouTube - Luck : A Compilation of Close Callsguys that barely survive impending danger
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within-store marketing to customers, e.g. "shopper marketing," is booming: "Although the “science” of this kind of marketing is sometimes debated and questions constantly arise about the messy, qualitative side of this discipline—something I can discuss more, later on—powerful statistics act as a call to shopper marketing. Namely: —70% of brand selections are made at stores —68% of buying decisions are unplanned, and —5% of consumers are loyal to the brand of just one product group (Stahlberg & Maila 2010) In other words, while sometimes highly effective, there seems to be something very ineffective with traditional marketing, advertising and branding efforts. As a result, shopper marketing budgets are growing rapidly."
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excellent: "What the issue of job creation illustrates is the problem of treating government experts as responsible for a problem that cannot be solved by a single person or a single organization. Economic activity consists of patterns of trade and specialization. The creation of these patterns is a process too complex and subtle for government experts to be able to manage. The issue also illustrates the way hubris drives out true expertise. The vast majority of economists would say that we have very little idea how much employment is created by additional government spending. However, the economists who receive the most media attention and who obtain the most powerful positions in Washington are those who claim to have the most precise knowledge of "multipliers.""
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Paradoxically, the very things that made the stimulus more effective economically may have made it less popular politically. For instance, because research has shown that lump-sum tax refunds get hoarded rather than spent, the government decided not to give individuals their tax cuts all at once, instead refunding a little on each paycheck. The tactic was successful at increasing consumer demand, but it had a big political cost: many voters never noticed that they were getting a tax cut.
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According to New Hampshire’s WMUR Channel 9 News, three local men, Mario Rojas, Leonardo Barroso and Victor Rodriguez, have burglarized more than 18 homes in the Nashua area of New Hampshire simply by checking status updates on Facebook and then pillaging the houses of victims who announced on the social network that they were not home.
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I think there are five different variables being represented here, in x, y position, size of circle, country name and denomination (color). Cool chart. Clustering of high-population Muslims in top left
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links for 2010-09-13
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In a winner-take all economy, however, small differences in skills can mean large differences in returns and we have moved towards a winner take-all economy because technology has increased the size of the market that can be served by a single person or firm
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Author figures out how to stack a deck of cards so that no matter how they are cut, the dealer still wins the hold 'em hand. Really cool
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"loneliness occurs in clusters, extends up to three degrees of separation, is disproportionately represented at the periphery of social networks, and spreads through a contagious process. The spread of loneliness was found to be stronger than the spread of perceived social connections, stronger for friends than family members, and stronger for women than for men. The results advance our understanding of the broad social forces that drive loneliness and suggest that efforts to reduce loneliness in our society may benefit by aggressively targeting the people in the periphery to help repair their social networks and to create a protective b
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“Why were you in China?” asked the passport control officer, a woman with the appearance and disposition of a prison matron. “None of your business,” I said. Her eyes widened in disbelief. “Excuse me?” she asked. “I’m not going to be interrogated as a pre-condition of re-entering my own country,” I said. and it gets better from there...
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wow
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Sobering - Most laymen probably assume that the 350-year-old institution of “peer review”, which acts as a gatekeeper to publication in scientific journals, involves some attempt to check the articles that see the light of day. In fact they are rarely checked for accuracy, and, as a study for the Fraser Institute, a Canadian think-tank, reported last year, “the data and computational methods are so seldom disclosed that post-publication verification is equally rare.” Journals will usually consider only articles that present positive and striking results, and scientists need constantly to publish in order to keep their careers alive.
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Rejection Therapy consists of only one rule: You must be rejected by another person at least once, every single day. Please notice the wording of the rule. It doesn’t say you must “attempt” or “try” to be rejected. The rule is you MUST be rejected by another human being. In this game, rejection is success. No other outcome will meet the requirement of this program. To put yourself in a situation where rejection is likely, but to your surprise your request is granted, is not a successful outcome. Why? Because you weren’t rejected. You didn’t ask for too much.
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Other words on the list include "Lady Gaga," "rude," in reference to departing "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell, and "Asperger's Syndrome" , the autism disorder seen on the Emmy Award-winning HBO film, "Temple Grandin."
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links for 2010-09-12
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Nathan R. Van Sleet, who lives in Oakland and is unemployed, says he plays YoVille, a game in which users create avatars and interact with others in custom-decorated homes, for up to 16 hours a day. Because he is hearing-impaired and doesn’t know sign language, online forums of YoVille players have allowed him to connect with various people. “If it were not for the forums, I would have missed the opportunity to meet these people,” Mr. Van Sleet said in an e-mail.
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A = Amazon, B = Best Buy, C = Craigslist, e = eBay, f = Facebook, etc.
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Coming out December 1
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links for 2010-09-11
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Yes, you will get out of bed. Yes, you will try to eat breakfast. And Yes, you will put on your pads and run out on that field. Despite the pain, the doubt, and the fear, you will say Yes. You always say Yes.
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But the single most exhilarating thing I’ve ever done was to make a habit of talking to strangers. Nothing has changed my world view, and my life, more than taking the risk of saying “Hi” to people I don’t know on a regular basis. Whether I’m walking down a busy shopping street, longboarding in the park, or out at a nightclub, I see every moment that I’m out in the world as a chance to meet new people.
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But how do children really get hurt or killed? Car accidents Homicide (usually committed by a person who knows the child, not a stranger) Abuse Suicide Drowning
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links for 2010-09-10
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links for 2010-09-08
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Much of the time spent discussing "ideas" in a business context is actually time spent slowly maneuvering large groups of managers into a compatible mind-space so that they can work together effectively - the results of the discussion in terms of ideas is worth nothing, whereas the result in terms of bonding, organizing, and motivating can be very valuable.
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links for 2010-09-07
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awesome - It seems what people want is a satisfying story about their place in the universe. Since characters are the most important elements of a story, the main “place” that matters to people is their social place – who they relate to and how. People feel they understand their place when they have a story saying how they can relate well to important social entities. Central to any social relation is whether the related person supports or opposes you in your conflicts. In fact, it seems enough to give your life meaning to just know who are your main natural allies and enemies among the important actors around, and what you can do to keep your allies supporting you, to give you high enough status.
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google searches, linkedin, zoominfo, company-site specific searches. also doing a whois search on their personal website sometimes works
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And it seemed to be remarkably effective: a 2007 clinical study funded by Shaw’s company and conducted by the independent SGS Laboratories found the device prevented germs from being transferred to catheters nearly 100 percent of the time. Given these facts, you might expect that hospitals would be lining up to buy Shaw’s product. But that is not the case, even though his company is offering to match whatever price medical facilities are paying for their current, infection-prone IV catheter syringes. In fact, since the device hit the market two years ago, Retractable has sold fewer than 20,000 units, mostly to one New York hospital. Often, the company’s sales team can’t even get in the door to show their wares to purchasing agents. “The product does exactly what it is supposed to do,” Shaw says. “But it has one fatal flaw. Right there at the bottom of the handle it says Retractable Technologies.”
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Our kids are all at that age and so its a regular family joke in the car ride home that the first to fall asleep gets a prize. It sometimes even works. But someone will fall asleep first, and once that happens the contest is over. The other two have no incentives. Also, in the first-to-fall game, each child has an incentive to keep the others awake. Not good for the parents. (And this second problem persists even if you add runner-up prizes.) So the new game in town is last-to-sleep gets a prize. You would think that this keeps them up too long but it actually has some nice properties. Optimal play in this game has each child pretending to sleep, thereby tricking the others into thinking they can fall asleep and be the last. So there’s lots of quiet even before they fall asleep. And there’s no better way to get a tired kid to fall asleep than to have him sit still, as if sleeping, in a quiet car.
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In reality, people who are critically ill almost always look critically ill. It's not subtle. If you are in a lot of pain, or vomiting uncontrollably, or suddenly unable to move half of your body – by all means, come in. We don't expect or want people to diagnose themselves or their families. If it feels like an emergency, let us take a look at you. But if your sick child is feeling well enough to grab every toy in the toy bin and hurl it across the room, the chance they have anything that won't wait until their PCP can see them on Monday is between small and nonexistent. And if your symptoms would have led your mother to send you to bed and made you soup when you were six, it's probably safe to send yourself to bed when you're forty. And if you show up at the ED instead, I'm not going to run a battery of tests to figure out why you have a sore throat and a fever. I'm going to send you out on your mother's plan, the only difference being the terrifying bill that will follow after.
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On a recent Wednesday morning, some Post editors were frustrated that the primary election results weren't garnering many hits -- despite the fact that John McCain had just won his party's nomination and Lisa Murkowski was on the verge of losing hers. What was hot, the traffic directors said, was Elin Nordegren telling People that her life had been "hell" since her husband's sex scandal, a photo of an alligator in the Chicago River, and a video posted on Gawker of a British woman throwing a feral cat into a dumpster.
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most e-mailed on NYT today... vary study locations, don't study any one subject for too long (present material in a mixed background), test yourself frequently, repeat over time
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Is the Tipping Point Toast? malcolm gladwell takedown -- Duncan Watts -- Trendsetting | Fast CompanyIn the past few years, Watts--a network-theory scientist who recently took a sabbatical from Columbia University and is now working for Yahoo --has performed a series of controversial, barn-burning experiments challenging the whole Influentials thesis. He has analyzed email patterns and found that highly connected people are not, in fact, crucial social hubs. He has written computer models of rumor spreading and found that your average slob is just as likely as a well-connected person to start a huge new trend. And last year, Watts demonstrated that even the breakout success of a hot new pop band might be nearly random. Any attempt to engineer success through Influentials, he argues, is almost certainly doomed to failure.
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Somebody at a book-signing: “I’ve always wanted to be a writer. I could write a novel.” Me: “Oh? Why haven’t you?” Person: “I just don’t have the time.” Me: “Hmm. Nobody gives me the time, either. I have to make the time, set priorities, discipline myself to get my writing done each day, no matter how tired I am. I worked a full-time regular job while I wrote my first novels, scraping out an hour here or there in evenings and weekends. That’s how I’ve become a successful author.”
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Even more striking is Exhibit C, the Edward Roybal Learning Center in the Westlake area, which was budgeted at $110 million until costs skyrocketed midway through construction when contractors discovered underground methane gas and a fault line. Eventual cost: $377 million. Mr. Rubin admits that the Roybal Center project was "a tremendous screw-up" that "should have been studied closer beforehand." The project was abandoned for several years, only to be recommenced when community activists demanded that the school be built at whatever cost necessary in order to show respect for the neighborhood's Latino children, many of whom were attending an overcrowded Belmont High School. The Roybal center now ranks in the bottom third of schools with similar demographics on state tests, while Belmont High ranks in the top third. But even though many Roybal kids can't read or do math, at least they have a dance studio with cushioned maple floors and a kitchen with a restaurant-quality pizza oven.
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My next linguistical suggestion is more rigorous. It is to fight the "if-this-guy-wants-to-talk-to-that-guy" syndrome: never refer to parts of programs or pieces of equipment in an anthropomorphic terminology, nor allow your students to do so. This linguistical improvement is much harder to implement than you might think, and your department might consider the introduction of fines for violations, say a quarter for undergraduates, two quarters for graduate students, and five dollars for faculty members. The reason for this last suggestion is that the anthropomorphic metaphor —for whose introduction we can blame John von Neumann— is an enormous handicap for every computing community that has adopted it. I have now encountered programs wanting things, knowing things, expecting things, believing things, etc., and each time that gave rise to avoidable confusions. The analogy that underlies this personification is so shallow that it is not only misleading but also paralyzing.
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It can be anything from cricket fans to stamp collectors. A social network that serves people with a shared interest is barely counts as a start-up idea at this stage. Naïvely a designer or developer starts one of these projects by gathering a feature set. How will our users communicate with each other? Will there be private communication too? Can they share details? What services will they want to integrate with? How can we get them connected as quickly as possible? Should they follow some users by default? Will we use OAuth to find their twitter friends? The list goes on.
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The problem with Scott and his generation-- and this is most decidedly not Scott's fault but is the fault of his dad and grandfather's generations-- is that Scott just can't imagine playing without a net. "No, I'll just wait here, thank you, got myself an iced tea." This is what happens when you go through four years of college and don't at least read On The Road, let alone try it. "Start a business? From nothing? I don't know..." For him, debt should only be for a house, a school, and Polo shirts.
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