by Tom | Sep 30, 2008 | Reading
Interesting idea to use a share ownership modela to manage fish catches and stocks. Sounds like a formalisation of what would have happened pre-regulation. Is it the wrong time to be suggesting that the market can make this kind of thing work?
by Tom | Sep 30, 2008 | IT
Or so they say!
by Tom | Sep 30, 2008 | Reading
Interesting analysis of the Congressional votes on the bail out. Summary: if you are retiring and don’t care about voters you voted for it; if you are in a close fought seat, you voted against it. Everyone else was evenly divided. I like the factoid: $700bn...
by Tom | Sep 30, 2008 | Reading
Some great stories on consulting presentations. I still enjoy two Datamonitor stories based on overhead projectors (yes I’m old):“Hi, my name is Dean B.”. Turns on projector which promptly explodes. Meeting adjourned.Ali picks up her first slide and...
by Tom | Sep 30, 2008 | Science
Yikes – they are pretty out there. Example: “Computation at Scale: How can we develop asymptotics for a world with massively many degrees of freedom?”
