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Jogos Bayesianos e análise Bayesiana
Eu já vi várias vezes algumas pessoas argumentarem que economistas usam jogos Bayesianos, mas analisam os dados de forma frequentista, e que isso seria uma contradição, dissonância cognitiva, ou algo assim. Eu sempre torci o nariz para esse tipo de … Continue lendo
Publicado em english, Política e Economia
Com a tag Bayes, Bayesiana, economistas, estatística bayesiana, gelman, jogos Bayesianos, teoria dos jogos
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I really like this one
From a comment on Andrew Gelman’s blog: When I went to college, one of the candidates for class president turned out to have copied his platform from a candidate a few years earlier. These things were mostly boilerplate (“I’ll improve the career … Continue lendo
Publicado em english, Manoel Galdino, orquídeas selvagens
Com a tag Clinton, funny, gelman, plagiarism
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Making love out of nothing at all
I really like the minivan chase scene of the movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith, with the music “making love of nothing at all” in the background. minivan chase
Publicado em Arte e Cultura, english, Manoel Galdino, orquídeas selvagens
Com a tag chase scene, film, making love out nothing at all, minivan chase scene, movie, Mr. and Mes. Smith, vídeo
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Technocracy and all that
Excellent post by Henry ate the Croked Timber about the likely failure of technocracy in European Union (and the relevance of democracy). I do really think that everyone should read the post, although it may be quite hard for non … Continue lendo
Publicado em english, Manoel Galdino, Política e Economia
Com a tag Central Bank, Crooked Timber, democracy, ECB, European Unuion, feedback, Henry, technocracy
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I’ll do that one day
Cosma shalizi makes an end of year inventory that it’s fairly funny (for nerds and academics simultaneously), and yet important for himself. Maybe I’ll do it myself here this week. Some notes for a complete post on this subject: manuscripts completed: … Continue lendo
Publicado em english, internet, Manoel Galdino, orquídeas selvagens
Com a tag Cosma Shalizi, english, inventory
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That Flying Bird…
Few months ago I wrote (in portuguese) about my worst-case scenario about the result of all the mess in US and specially Europe. Basically, the US and parts of Europe would recede to some kind of authoritarian government. I still … Continue lendo
Publicado em english, Manoel Galdino, Política e Economia
Com a tag authoritarism, Crooked Timber, democracy, England, Europe, Uk, US
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That modeling feeling and lost in translation
With some delay, my Friday post (on Saturday!). Andrew Gelman linked to a post by Kaiser Fung in which he described three hours in the life of a statistician (or data scientist, as Fung put). The post by Fung is … Continue lendo
Publicado em ciência, english, estatística, orquídeas selvagens, poesia
Com a tag data scientist, lost in translation, modeling, programming, statistics
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About Wall Street
I’ve been reading uncountable reactions in mainstream media about OWS and it’s amazing how they completly, totally, miss the point. Sometims, they think the OWS guys are hippies and, as if being a hippie were sufficient evidence that they’re wrong, … Continue lendo
Publicado em english, friday, Manoel Galdino, Política e Economia
Com a tag diablo II, Ocupy Wall Street, OWS
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