Growing up in China, with the state television often showing boring programs, I was hooked to our cherished VCR and … More
Month: December 2012
On Bertie Russell and Johnny Keynes, and the Two Meta Models of Politics
People can differ a lot on their politics. Some people want free markets, others want government intervention; some want free … More
Big Data or Pig Data?
(A fable on huge amounts of data and why we don’t need models) There was a pig who wanted to … More
Galileo and Economics
Or ‘Why we can’t blame Galileo for the latest financial crisis!’ 🙂 Modern science can be roughly said to begin … More
Postmodernism: The Opium of the Intellectuals
What follows is a post-modernist defense of Agha Waqar Ahmad’s water-car. The postmodernist author is Derridalacanlatour, a famous French intellectual … More
Fiction as Simulation
Studies by neuroscientists have shown that while reading fiction, our brains simulate the action narrated in the text. The information … More
