Right, almost two months since my visit to Atlanta, hence high time to wrap up and conclude.Briefly on Atlanta itself: ultimately not that appealing a city. In fact, probably the least interesting city I have visited in USA so far (caveat lector: I have deliberately avoided stuff a priori known to be dull), bar San Antonio, Texas (which might have changed since my trip there in ’04, but I doubt it).
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Sunday night econlinks: Submit the paper right now!
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The Tilburg Univ “Econ Schools Ranking”. It is indeed using a rather decent pool of journals (for period 2004-2008) and moreover, you can construct your own top by choosing subsets of those journals (such as top 5 only, if you wish).
Albert Einstein Bizottság: Szerelem
I don’t think it has occured to any of you that simulated maximum likelihood OX programs, which often take days to converge (given I do not–yet!– have the parallel computing power I would love to possess…), run much faster if in the meantime one listens to Albert Einstein Committee’s brilliant music.
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With credits to Irving Berlin, Bing Crosby, Mark Sandrich, and all the dolls out there.
PS. Recall also a most interesting analysis of Irving Berlin’s creativity profile, once you wake up from the hangover :-).
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Even in 1945…
(with thanks to Alex and YouTube) → Read more