Review of Patent Failure (James Bessen & Michael J. Meurer)
Certainly every person with an interest in patents shud read this book. It is rather clearly written, it is not overly long (260 pages), has a good use of illustrations.…
Various quotes and comments
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inalienable_possession In linguistics, inalienable possession refers to the linguistic properties of certain nouns or nominal morphemes based on the their always being possessed. The semantic underpinning is that entities like…
Some parafilias (Wiki quotes)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybristophilia Hybristophilia "is a paraphilia of the predatory type in which sexual arousal, facilitation, and attainment of orgasm are responsive to and contingent upon being with a partner known to…
Review of and thoughs about “Fooled by Randomness” (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
In general, this book is full of repetitions, and so it can easily get boring to read. The book shud have been 50-100 pages shorter, then it wud have been…
Thoughts about Freakonomics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freakonomics Freakonomics expanded In general, this book is not so bad. But it is not so good either. Light nonfiction reading. I didnt read it for any particular reason other…
Einstein on operationally defining and measuring simplicity
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/einstein-philscience/ But for all that Einstein's faith in simplicity was strong, he despaired of giving a precise, formal characterization of how we assess the simplicity of a theory. In 1946…
Esperanto blog
To those that didnt notice. I started writing an esperanto blog, here.
Wired: Alt Text: Cleaning Up the Olympics, Genetic-Engineering Style
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/07/alt-text-olympics-genetic-engineering An interesting proposal to fix the unfair genetic advantage that some people have over other people in the olympics (or any competition at all). He proposes: “To begin with,…
I have been studying nuclear power…
I just wanted to do a quick study using Wikipedia. Well, that didnt happen. On the other hand, now i learned alot about nuclear power. Starting with 1 tab open,…
Big Five’s Openness to Experience and declicious correlations (yummy!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openness_to_experience Lots of interesting correlations! “Intelligence and knowledge Openness correlates with intelligence, correlation coefficients ranging from about r = .30 to r = .45.[11] Openness is moderately associated with crystallized…
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