→ Read more[…] We’ve been busy traveling around in the Nordic regions and we have been finding a number of simply phenomenal ingredients that we have flown into town for our use: Horse mussels, deep-sea crabs and langoustines from the Faeroe Islands, which are living right up until the moment they are served to our visitors.
Category: quote of the week
Theory and practice, in theory and in practice
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The playful mantras of our adolescence have become a way of life for later generations. At least in the ’60s we knew, whatever we said, that sex was about…sex. All the same, what followed is our fault.
In Memoriam L.H. Chen
For those of us who met him, Long Hwa came across as the soft-spoken, thoughtful Taiwanese; curious, but skeptical, about all-things Western. He brought with him his Asian wisdom, and enriched everybody’s horizon in a world where we care too much about details, and often ignore the essence.
→ Read more Bar Rouge and the evils of drinking
Yeah, yeah, yeah… I am extremely busy and promised several VIPs who read my blog (I am flattered!) that I would focus fully on research, so the posting frequence has (to) decrease(d) somewhat.
→ Read more Easterly on Randomized Evaluation
By far the best read of the current week (as yet, but looks incredibly difficult to surpass this):
→ Read moreHere’s an imagined dialogue between the two sides on Randomized Evaluation (RE) based on this book:FOR: Amazing RE power lets us identify causal effect of project treatment on the treated.