January 2011

It strikes me that much of today’s blog could be summarised as “gut truth, simple message, shout, get cracking”. Anyway, I found this ironic: Our financial markets have become a largely automated adaptive dynamical system, with feedback. Furthermore, a dynamical adaptive system with feedback is challenging ordinarily, but this one is also strategic. A flight…

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My only complaint about this post from Duncan Weldon is that his caveats are better than the ostensible point. The problem with arguments about the budget is that a very large chunk of the spending side is either made up of long-term capital projects, or worse, PFI-ised capital projects, which often can’t and arguably shouldn’t…

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I am enjoying these people’s magazine (although the website leaves something to be desired like a less horrible design), especially as it seems to be based in the pub around the corner from my office. Oddly 90s – people being amused by Japanese TV – but I can put up with that.I am enjoying these…

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I’m not quite as sceptical as some about this. However, it’s not clear to me how this differs from the sort of thing UNOSAT does all the time – here’s their analysis of imagery over Abyei, the key border area between North and South Sudan. Actually it looks like the “Enough Project” is going to…

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