{"id":3160,"date":"2008-11-17T04:00:32","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T04:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/11\/17\/links-for-20081117\/"},"modified":"2008-11-17T04:00:32","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T04:00:32","slug":"links-for-20081117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/11\/17\/links-for-20081117\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2008-11-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/infoproc.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/central-limit-theorem-and_16.html\">Information Processing: Central limit theorem and securitization: how to build a CDO<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;[T]he mathematical concepts related to the current financial crisis leave over 95 percent of our population completely baffled. If your Ivy League education didn&#8217;t prepare you to understand the following, please ask for your money back.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/math\">math<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/statistics\">statistics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.numberpix.com\/2006\/05\/fixing_excels_charts.html\">Pictures of Numbers: Fixing Excel&#8217;s Charts<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">It&#8217;s really sad how many steps you need to go through to get halfway decent graphs out of Excel.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/math\">math<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/computing\">computing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/data-analysis\">data-analysis<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/slacktivist.typepad.com\/slacktivist\/2008\/11\/how-i-beat-the-market.html\">slacktivist: How I beat the market<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;[I]n 1991, when I was the intern, the bulk of the denomination&#8217;s Wall Street investments lost money. So that 3.1 percent &#8212; and the 4.5 percent over all from the rest of the alternative investments portfolio &#8212; was looking pretty good. Thanks to George Bailey, the intern beat the markets.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/class-war\">class-war<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/slacktivist\">slacktivist<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2008_11\/015678.php\">The Washington Monthly<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;I&#8217;m sure that there are some devotees of central planning out there somewhere. But for the most part, those of us who reject free market fundamentalism do so not because we fail to recognize that market economies are generally best, but because we think that this, like most general principles, has exceptions.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/social-science\">social-science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/ethics\">ethics<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information Processing: Central limit theorem and securitization: how to build a CDO &quot;[T]he mathematical concepts related to the current financial crisis leave over 95 percent of our population completely baffled. 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