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First The Bees, Now the Bats: White Nose Syndrome
Wow. Though shrouded in unknowns, the basics are these: WNS has killed 90 percent or more of the bats in much of the Northeast in less than five years, and continues to kill nearly every bat it infects. And the … Continue reading
Wiggins Is Spot On
Riffing on a Taleb-esque point regarding how emulation will only get you so far: Think of it this way: in any sufficiently complex system, there will not be any universally dominant strategies. Therefore, there will not be any rote formula … Continue reading
Infographic: Visualizing the Afghanistan Scenarios
Amazing (and huge) infographic. Very cool. From here. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
Stack Exchange As A Service
Joel Spolsky’s looking for a way to monetize a garden of Stack Exchange’s for a variety of topics ranging form law to whatever. The way this works: You create a proposal, You get people to vote on which proposals are … Continue reading
On Stephen Watt’s Incarceration
This is insane. Watt spent 10 hours coding a packet sniffer for the guy who went on to conduct the largest identity theft in human history. For free. Now he’s in jail for two years. Prosecutors don’t dispute Watt’s claim … Continue reading