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Even Fewer Books

Insurance choice can be bad

economics, politics, choice, insurance

Free market insurance is incompatible with knowledge

economics, politics, insurance

Duck talk

I gave a short presentation on the ideas behind duck at DESRES today. Here are the slides. Caveat: I made these slides in the two hours before the presentation.

The Verbosity Difference

code, languages, psychology, abstractions, C++, non-monotonic utility, object oriented programming, verbosity

Marshmallows and Achievement Gaps

psychology, achievement gap, delayed gratification, marshmallows, stereotype threat

The Anonymous, Recursive Suggestion Box

computer science, economics, politics, distributed system, suggestion box, voting

Haskell vs. C

code, computer science, languages, math, C++, Curry-Howard isomorphism, Haskell, types

Here’s a summary of the differences between typed functional languages and unsafe languages:

  • Difficulty of easy things: Haskell ~ C
  • Difficulty of hard things: Haskell < C
  • Difficulty of impossible things: Haskell » C

Kudos to anyone who knows what this means.

Externalities and tariffs

economics, environment, politics, cap and trade, externalities, Krugman, Obama, tariffs

Consciousness vs. efficiency

code, computer science, languages, misc, algorithms, consciousness, efficiency, thought