Archive for September, 2010
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 […]
Taxes and the Nash Equilibrium, and Why the Social State Consequently Blows
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.
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: […]
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 […]
Useful Application
Finally somebody found a useful application of wind mills: making the lawn shiny. Neat.
Tentative Title
I may or may not change the title in the final version. The talk is about modeling and analysis.
