I might have to listen to his book. Economics is an interesting topic to me, unlike AI! It is a beautiful day in southern WI. I played 1.5 hours of pickleball, walked my dogs and spent 2 hours in the yard. I keep hearing small planes flying overhead. That is very unusual so I inquiring on the local FB group to find out what is going on. The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) is holding it's annual show in Oshkosh (about 2 hrs away) and apparently a lot of the planes fly to our little airport to take advantage of our cheap fuel.
I am very disturbed by "Border czar - is she or isn't she?" coverage and discussion. Respected news outlets going back and flagging their own headlines for being wrong due to semantics gives support to the whole "fake news" thing in a way I don't think even the wacked out right could have imagined.
ETA: It makes my head hurt.
On the other hand, I have improved my soldering skills and made a half-way decent looking copper pinecone yesterday. Hopefully I will get a chance to try another.
What a cool hobby, Lucy! Josh B makes beautiful wooden bowls. We are Facebook friends and he posts his creations and they are just gorgeous. We all know they called her the border czar, they can backpedal all they want. Annoying.
It is fun. Yes, I have seen Josh's bowls. They are wonderful. I really like art that has a tactile element, that looks like it would feel good in one's hands.
Interesting. I have read that he actually supports her.
That is a delightfully twisted line.
Fun fact: the WFB used to be a nice local paper, The Montgomery Journal. Our family has an old favorite recipe for Saucepan Cookies that came from its pages.
This is why I disagreed with Jonah G’s column this week in which he said the media isn’t an extension of the parties. It couldn’t be clearer that left-leaning media made a hard and fast turn in the last week, converting Harris from unpopular dead weight on the ticket to a rock star who has energized the party. It’s been pretty funny to watch so many people fall for it. Lemmings.
Yesterday, the mothership covered Benjamin Netanyahu's address to a joint session of Congress, a session boycotted by some pro-Palestinian Democrats, and by the President of the Senate, who ws busy making her own speech to a sorority convention.
Today, the mothership covers the start of the Olympic Games in Paris, amid tight security.
That was how th emithership referred to Paris as well. The olympic evens are spread out over the city, with the opening ceremony on the Seine, and at least one event at the base of the Eiffel Tower. That means security at a time when Palestinian terrorism is a bigger threat, turns Paris into a locked down fort.
The mothership even referred to the 1972 Munich Olympics, when Israeli athletes were taken hostage and ultimately killed by Black September terrorists. I remember that all too well. Hopefully we won't have a repeat of that.
I remember it well myself. Did you see any of the stories about the problems with the French TGV rail system being vandalized / sabotaged, leaving many people headed to Paris - including some athletes - stranded for long periods of time?
"GDP is a flawed measure of the human value of what gets traded, and of how that value changes over time."
Of course, that is true. A price encodes the value of a good or service, relative to other available goods and services, for an individual at a specific time. That's it. The item doesn't necessarily retain its priced value to buyer for even 24 hours. That's why product returns, thrift stores, and bad reviews on Google exist.
This being the case, drawing large-scale conclusions based on estimated aggregates of all these subjective and time-constrained transactions is parlous at best. But on the other hand, if there is more stuff out there and more transactions, that means something. We recognize a major decline in economic dynamism - the Great Depression, most obviously - when it happens.
Good point. I suppose just bookkeeping, accounting, and balance sheets.
His main critique is aimed at macro-economics and econometrics, which he describes as giving false confidence in models of the economy being accurate. It’s the sociology / human sciences problem: It’s nearly impossible neatly to define what exactly is being measured. The boundaries wind up being rather arbitrary. “What we’re measuring is these people over here, but not those people over there who look like them, but whose behavior is weird because it doesn’t conform to our theories.”
"What we're measuring is these people over here, but not those people over there who look like them, but whose behavior is weird because it doesn't conform to our theories."
So, he's talkin' 'bout economists, econometricians and... political pollsters?
I see his point. BTW: I think those folks would look down at the professions you mention. They would view those as something you could learn at a trade school. Damn snobs.
I don't think any household members want my passwords. On the other hand, Son C used to memorize people's passwords just in case. From across the room, he could tell the keystrokes from the movement of your fingers.
I might have to listen to his book. Economics is an interesting topic to me, unlike AI! It is a beautiful day in southern WI. I played 1.5 hours of pickleball, walked my dogs and spent 2 hours in the yard. I keep hearing small planes flying overhead. That is very unusual so I inquiring on the local FB group to find out what is going on. The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) is holding it's annual show in Oshkosh (about 2 hrs away) and apparently a lot of the planes fly to our little airport to take advantage of our cheap fuel.
Good morning.
I am very disturbed by "Border czar - is she or isn't she?" coverage and discussion. Respected news outlets going back and flagging their own headlines for being wrong due to semantics gives support to the whole "fake news" thing in a way I don't think even the wacked out right could have imagined.
ETA: It makes my head hurt.
On the other hand, I have improved my soldering skills and made a half-way decent looking copper pinecone yesterday. Hopefully I will get a chance to try another.
What a cool hobby, Lucy! Josh B makes beautiful wooden bowls. We are Facebook friends and he posts his creations and they are just gorgeous. We all know they called her the border czar, they can backpedal all they want. Annoying.
It is fun. Yes, I have seen Josh's bowls. They are wonderful. I really like art that has a tactile element, that looks like it would feel good in one's hands.
That is the kind of journalism that inspires me to read Andrew Stiles at WFB for an alternative view:
https://freebeacon.com/author/stiles/democrats/hope-and-cringe/
Also, smart lines like this entrée:
> Barack Obama, the celebrity memoirist and Netflix producer who also served as president of the United States <
Interesting. I have read that he actually supports her.
That is a delightfully twisted line.
Fun fact: the WFB used to be a nice local paper, The Montgomery Journal. Our family has an old favorite recipe for Saucepan Cookies that came from its pages.
This is why I disagreed with Jonah G’s column this week in which he said the media isn’t an extension of the parties. It couldn’t be clearer that left-leaning media made a hard and fast turn in the last week, converting Harris from unpopular dead weight on the ticket to a rock star who has energized the party. It’s been pretty funny to watch so many people fall for it. Lemmings.
Good morning. Sunny with a mid-80s high forecast.
Yesterday, the mothership covered Benjamin Netanyahu's address to a joint session of Congress, a session boycotted by some pro-Palestinian Democrats, and by the President of the Senate, who ws busy making her own speech to a sorority convention.
Today, the mothership covers the start of the Olympic Games in Paris, amid tight security.
There, I believe I'm caught up now.
I thought the TGIF title was hilarious today, "The Week Unburdened by the Week That Has Been."
Caught up is a good way to end the week.
One headline I saw this morning about the Olympics referred to the City of Lights as "Fort Paris."
That was how th emithership referred to Paris as well. The olympic evens are spread out over the city, with the opening ceremony on the Seine, and at least one event at the base of the Eiffel Tower. That means security at a time when Palestinian terrorism is a bigger threat, turns Paris into a locked down fort.
The mothership even referred to the 1972 Munich Olympics, when Israeli athletes were taken hostage and ultimately killed by Black September terrorists. I remember that all too well. Hopefully we won't have a repeat of that.
I remember it well myself. Did you see any of the stories about the problems with the French TGV rail system being vandalized / sabotaged, leaving many people headed to Paris - including some athletes - stranded for long periods of time?
"GDP is a flawed measure of the human value of what gets traded, and of how that value changes over time."
Of course, that is true. A price encodes the value of a good or service, relative to other available goods and services, for an individual at a specific time. That's it. The item doesn't necessarily retain its priced value to buyer for even 24 hours. That's why product returns, thrift stores, and bad reviews on Google exist.
This being the case, drawing large-scale conclusions based on estimated aggregates of all these subjective and time-constrained transactions is parlous at best. But on the other hand, if there is more stuff out there and more transactions, that means something. We recognize a major decline in economic dynamism - the Great Depression, most obviously - when it happens.
What measures does he propose that are more meaningful. I'm curious, but its 6:48am and I'm not curious enough to read for myself. Help me, Obi-wan!
That plea i the original movie, came with a set of plans. There are no plans here (and no Death Star).
First measure: stop measuring. Probably…
Ya gotta measure, no? What other jobs are economists and econometricians qualified for?
Good point. I suppose just bookkeeping, accounting, and balance sheets.
His main critique is aimed at macro-economics and econometrics, which he describes as giving false confidence in models of the economy being accurate. It’s the sociology / human sciences problem: It’s nearly impossible neatly to define what exactly is being measured. The boundaries wind up being rather arbitrary. “What we’re measuring is these people over here, but not those people over there who look like them, but whose behavior is weird because it doesn’t conform to our theories.”
"What we're measuring is these people over here, but not those people over there who look like them, but whose behavior is weird because it doesn't conform to our theories."
So, he's talkin' 'bout economists, econometricians and... political pollsters?
Statisticians, got us all by the statisticles…
Ouch. But by what do statisticians get the statisticleless portion of the population??
Go ahead... let's see ya' type that one 3 times fast...
(And no references to Trump / Access Hollywood allowed.)
I see his point. BTW: I think those folks would look down at the professions you mention. They would view those as something you could learn at a trade school. Damn snobs.
I wish I’d had a job like theirs or weather forecasters in my working days: I could be consistently wrong but never have any consequences come my way.
Good morning. It's foggy here. Someone let Jake in the bedroom last night. He's very affectionate when he wants me to get out of bed and feed him.
Grey outside right now, and its 57 degrees.
57 F.... ahhhhh!
👍
57% of 100?
Ooops. Degrees. Will edit.
That sounds nice.
Great sleeping weather.
If you don't have a cat.
Morning. We’ve got fog, too. And the potential for a three-day dry spell. Rejoice!
I have choir this evening, but tomorrow might be most of a day off. Maybe I'll find an abandoned 3-ring binder and make a list of passwords.
Use a password protected spreadsheet (Excel or Numbers.)
But then I'd have to know the password.
You can remember one! I know you can!
One note of caution: In my household I don't have to worry about anyone else messing with the password binder or using the passwords.
There is that, but if I don't tell them what it is, they probably won't think of it.
Sounds like you have things covered, then.
I don't think any household members want my passwords. On the other hand, Son C used to memorize people's passwords just in case. From across the room, he could tell the keystrokes from the movement of your fingers.