{"id":3451,"date":"2009-02-28T04:00:23","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T04:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/02\/28\/links-for-2009-02-28\/"},"modified":"2009-02-28T04:00:23","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T04:00:23","slug":"links-for-2009-02-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/02\/28\/links-for-2009-02-28\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2009-02-28"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/setshot.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/appearance-vs-ability-or-that-guy-is.html\">Setshot: Basketball for the Aging and Infirm: &quot;That guy is better than he looks&quot;: Appearance vs. ability<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Here&#8217;s a topic I think about all the time: What factors most affect opinions about players&#8217; skills, and by what process do those opinions change? In pickup basketball, there are often unknown players rotating into the playing roster. For purposes of team selection, shot distribution and defensive assignment, other players must evaluate them quickly and make uninformed assessments about their prospective abilities. It&#8217;s like speed dating.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/sports\">sports<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/basketball\">basketball<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/store.nakatomiinc.com\/change-intoatruckartprintbytimdoyle.aspx\">Change Into a Truck Obama Parody Poster Art Print<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Comprehensive Health Coverage is the Right of all Sentient Beings&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/television\">television<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/movies\">movies<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/SF\">SF<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/art\">art<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/toys\">toys<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dorigo.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/27\/think-like-an-experimental-particle-physicist-addendum\/\">Think like an experimental particle physicist &#8211; second (and last) part \u00c2\u00ab A Quantum Diaries Survivor<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot; K) You are found in the library of your Department. Why was that ?<\/p>\n<p>   1. Why, I had an hour to kill\u00e2\u0080\u00a6<br \/>\n   2. I am just checking out the new librarian (he\/she\u00e2\u0080\u0099s cute).<br \/>\n   3. They told me there are coupons to cut away for free radioactive samples on this month\u00e2\u0080\u0099s issue of Physics Today.<br \/>\n   4. They threatened to expel me if I did not bring back the overdue copy of DH. Perkins\u00e2\u0080\u0099 book.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/experiment\">experiment<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/particles\">particles<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/dorigo\">dorigo<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/slacktivist.typepad.com\/slacktivist\/2009\/02\/the-undeserving-poor.html\">slacktivist: The undeserving poor<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">A look at some of the people living the high life on mortgages that they can&#8217;t afford.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/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\/2009_02\/017070.php\">The Washington Monthly<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;If I&#8217;m reading this right, within four years of being issued, two thirds of these CDOs are in defaultt, and their recovery rates are very, very low. That&#8217;s just staggering. It&#8217;s actually hard to understand how the banks managed to do this badly: you&#8217;d think they could have done better hiring people off the street and paying them to put all those nice little loan documents into piles at random, or tossing mortgages down the stairs and bundling them based on how they landed. They certainly didn&#8217;t need to hire people with advanced math degrees and pay them seven- or eight-figure salaries to get these kinds of results.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/math\">math<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/stupid\">stupid<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Setshot: Basketball for the Aging and Infirm: &quot;That guy is better than he looks&quot;: Appearance vs. ability &quot;Here&#8217;s a topic I think about all the time: What factors most affect opinions about players&#8217; skills, and by what process do those opinions change? In pickup basketball, there are often unknown players rotating into the playing roster.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/02\/28\/links-for-2009-02-28\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">links for 2009-02-28<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}