The Britney Spears Strategy for Investment

Stock investment is difficult, so I’m using the Britney Spears strategy to navigate the Circus: I’m in charge as I got the boom, boom, that you want and if You Got It All and your P/E is good, The Hookup happens. Every day I’ll be Thinking about you and assess losses and gains. If the […]

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Taxes and the Nash Equilibrium, and Why the Social State Consequently Blows

Now, the idea of the Nash equilibrium is that by altering one’s own behavior from maximizing for yourself regardless of the strategy of others, you can get a solution that is better to everyone. Compare this to a soccer match. If both teams play against each other, they have to run around like idiots for 2 * 45 minutes, eventually possibly having one team or the other score more goals. If they just agree that soccer sucks (it’s almost part of the name anyway), and go out for a couple cold ones, they both get a draw, but have instead a nice time for an hour and a half. […]

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Rostock By Night. And Day. Also, Hamburg.

In Hamburg, they have a church named the Petri church: When we there, they’d put a bunch of crap/crab on the back: Rostock also has a Petri church, which is the tallest building. When you get to the back, the city abruptly just stops: In Rostock, we went to the Petri keller for dinner. It’s […]

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Introduction to CPN Tools

I’ve been doing demonstrations of CPN Tools for almost 10 years now. At first, I did demonstrations with Troels Bjerre Sørensen and later alone. Next week, I’m chairing a hands-on session with CPN Tools, and rather than doing demos again, I decided to condense some material from the CPN Tools help pages (old version here) […]

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