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I start my class every year by saying, “These are models. And the reason we call them models is that they’re not 100 percent true. If they were, we would call them reality, not models.
Month: December 2007
What is good mathematics?
Read the answer by one of the most qualified persons to give an answer: Terence Tao.
Also: Tao’s blog is for quite a while in my blogring, I hope you noticed that :-).
→ Read more It is time for the current Minister of Education to go…
… and I’ll come back to the theme of the title soon (there are many reasons for the title, beyond what this short post will touch on), with an alternative, you’ve always got to have an alternative when you criticise… But meanwhile, if The Diplomat is right in this article (via Gabi Istrate, on Ad Astra), the MEdC signed itself up (in an apparent total ignorance, which is a proxy to a far more serious sin– and this is a real sin!–
→ Read more Salivating over economics in public
Definitely the morning pill today. Couldn’t have phrased this better. From a self-defined “Ec10 slut” and necessarily via Greg Mankiw :-). The conclusion of this short article is useful to keep in mind as future reference, for everybody– both outsiders and insiders to economics:
→ Read moreWhen we use the tools that economics give us, we need to be sure that the complexity of the models we use match the complexity of the real world situations.
Today’s song: Semilla Negra (in Marlango’s version)
The musical masterpiece for today is “Semilla Negra”, in Marlango’s rendition. Probably you know that the song was first introduced by the popular pop-rock Spanish band of the 80’s, “Radio Futura“.
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