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Thursday, May 14, 2015. We went on a very nice group tour of some botanical gardens yesterday, guided by a sweet old Swiss lady. I don't think she knew what to do with us. Guide: We don't have any tours in the winter because the ferry doesn't run. Economist 1: Why not? Guide: There are no tourists at that time of year. Economist 1: But couldn't it be that there are no tourists because there are no ferries running? Guide: [Blank dumbfounded stare.]. Economist 2: This isn't an academic seminar!
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Tuesday, May 5, 2015. Where can I buy insurance? I have terrible teeth. Every single year since the beginning of grad school I've both maxed out my coverage and. Put off major dental work in order to get at least part of it covered the next year. I've lost count of how many fillings I currently have that I've been told "hopefully this'll get you through a couple years, but you really need a crown.". But I can't buy it! The only dental insurance available that I can find is the opposite. I know I just sai...
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Monday, May 11, 2015. This week I'm at a conference on "Social norms and institutions" in stunningly beautiful Ascona, Switzerland. So there might be a slew of broadly-uninteresting note-like posts on the topic. At conferences and during interesting seminars I usually end up with pages and pages of notes with these idle ponderings, but as long as the apparent norm that laptops can stay open persists, I might as well type them directly into blogger instead. Posted by Vera L. te Velde. Vera L. te Velde.
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Friday, July 17, 2015. Ignore Hanlon's More Optimistic Razor at your own peril. Absolutely no good can come from throwing gasoline onto fires started by arsonists, but sometimes emotions override logic and you just want to watch some stuff burn.). The problem with social justice warriors is the negligence of Hanlon's razor. Don't attribute to malice that which can be explained by ignorance. Intentions, or ignorance. Let's call it Hanlon's More Optimistic Razor. Eat meat, or that you should. 1], that most...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015. I've taken on a small interdisciplinary research project on the side. Initial results:. Sprout very sadly passed away, hence the shorter timeseries for her :( The two cosmonauts are clearly thriving though. Posted by Vera L. te Velde. April 29, 2015 at 10:22 AM. Sorry about Sprout. Was s/he just really small at birth, or what was the problem? Glad to hear the others are doing well. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Vera te Velde's blog. Programming with dependent types.
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Monday, June 1, 2015. Apparently it's the first day of winter here in Australia. An accident of history: the military used to switch uniforms with the changing seasons at the start of the month, and therefore June 1 (ahead of solstice on the 21st) became known as the official start of winter. Is what causes the seasons. But then you'd think the solstice would mark the peak. Weather-wise, June 21st still isn't exactly the peak of winter because of the oceans. Water stores a great amount of heat and so...
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Thursday, April 23, 2015. MOOCs brick and mortar. MOOCs For many reasons. I'm not on the "MOOCs will take over education and replace traditional universities! Bandwagon yet*, but I think they're a fantastic new way to learn. I cannot possibly describe. How unbelievably jealous I am of undergrads' experience with this setup. I would have gotten immeasurably. More out of my undergrad education if I had had lecture videos to refer to* *. And I know this for sure in part due to my experience with MOOCs.
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Thursday, April 30, 2015. A week ago I got to hear Roy Baumeister give an overview seminar on his research on self-regulation. Super fascinating stuff, and he's a great speaker. On a graphic of this data. That I know I've seen online but I can't find for the life of me at the moment, showing how frequently people experience various types of desires, how much they try to resist them, and how often they succeed:. So I wonder, when is Roy measuring willpower as "success in not engaging in harmful activities...
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Thursday, May 21, 2015. Libertarians on climate change. I've been meaning to blog about this and a poll on the facebook page of the Australian Libertarian Society reminded me to do so. Motivated reasoning is very obviously going on; that's the only way an objective scientific topic could become such a partisan issue. But on which side? This just makes NO sense to me. If global warming weren't true, why on earth would the left make it up to try to force more government on us? Why wouldn't they simply exag...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Awesome broken windows theory tests. This conference on "social norms and institutions", as you might expect, is quite cross-disciplinary. I'm not sure what the breakdown is, but there are plenty of behavioral economists, sociologists, psychologists, and even law professors and political scientists. So, I'm collecting quite a list of interesting new sources from lectures and conversations with these non-economists. Bikes parked in a shed have flyers attached to them as in example 1...
