Archive for the ‘purpose’ Category
Thursday, February 1st, 2007
I noticed a strange book on my del.icio.us bookmarks that made it possible for the same URL to display a different webpage by clicking on different links to seemingly the same page. I'd written to tech support about this a few weeks ago, but I got a quicker response ...
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Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
Tonight I attended was the third of eight Level 1 Improvisational Comedy classes given my the Bovine Metropolis Theater. During the first two weeks most of the exercises involved work with imaginary objects. For example, we'd envision ourselves eating at our favorite restaurant, doing an everyday activity like ...
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Monday, June 12th, 2006
Sure, I have perfectionist tendencies. Psychologists and economists would call me a maximizer (in contrast to a satisficer) which often results in not optimizing what one values by erroneously not accounting for the opportunity cost of the decision-making process. But what follows is a case of its ...
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Monday, April 17th, 2006
I just watched the Penn & Teller Bullshit! Episode on the Endangered Species Act. I couldn't help to think about the theory of Rational Irrationality, i.e., how it's economically "rational" to be epistemologically irrational, or how little incentive people have to be informed about the effectiveness and unintended consequences ...
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