IBM Rational User Group Launch
2009-04-08 20:13:00 IBM is presenting Rational User Group Launh on 21st April, 2009 at Hotel Taj Mahal, Delhi. Here is the excerpt of the mail I received… It is our pleasure to invite you to Rational User Group meeting in Delhi on 21st April, 2009. You are cordially invited to attend the launch and join the community of Rational users in Delhi. The Rational User group will provide a platform for discussions with like minded people, share best practices and have some fun while we are at it. The agenda will cover latest topics from Rational Software. Please mark your calendars for the 21st April, 2009 from 5.00p.m onwards at Taj Mahal. Do join us for dinner thereafter. Thank you and look forward to meeting with you. Agenda Topics: * What is Jazz and Change Management using Rational Team Concert * Quality Driven Software Delivery through Rational Quality Manager * Secure Web Applications using Rational AppScan Date: 21st April, 2009 Venue: Taj Mahal, Delhi Click here to register
By: Geek .Net
Shopping, Consumers, the Economy, and Rational Explanations
2008-12-27 08:23:00 FIRST:Â A PINK FLAMINGO I TOLD YOU SO! Have I not been saying that once fuel prices go down people will start spending money on other things? What if there is a limit to consumerism and we have... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Anxiety and Rational Thought
2008-10-21 22:30:00 Most of us realise how irrational our thinking is when we are anxious or stressed. Most of us that have suffered from any kind of anxiety or panic have had those vivid, stubborn, intrusive negative thoughts going through our head. In the cold light of day of course we know they are not true - if we had stayed in that supermarket check-out queue we would neither have had a heart attack nor died, and you've felt like you were fainting many times but have in fact never fainted. So, our automatic negative thoughts are complete rubbish. CBT to the rescue, we can simply identify them and replace them with something more positive and realistic. Except we can't. When we are in a heightened state of anxiety, identifying and replacing thoughts by recognising how irrational and untrue they are is almost impossible. CBT gets round this by suggesting thoughts are written down first, and then dealt with. This is a much better approach as the process of writing things down slows us down. Probl...
By: Anxiety 2 Calm
Element House - A Prefabricated Modern And Rational Housing.
2008-09-08 16:27:00 Element House - A Prefabricated Modern And Rational Housing.Element House - a prefabricated modern and rational housing type with high architectonical quality, designed by 70°N arkitektur in cooperation with Senja Elementer AS, located in Tromso, Norway. The focus of development in the concept is on interior flexibility with regard to the inhabitants' needs and economical situation. And the first model comes with eight variations, which includes 2 units of 30m each for rent. And presently the house has been made for three different projects with a total of 19 units. The wall elements of this prefabricated house are made indoor under controlled climatic conditions and then quickly put together on the building site. This greatly reduces the problems with water in the construction which is a large problem for the building industry in North Norway.Other Posts:Pipe Art.A Symphony Of Lights.Rainbow Vegetables & Fruits.Coca Cola's Ads Spread Over A Century.Aquariums That Are Definitely W...
By: algebra of life
Religion is rational
2008-07-20 16:45:00 Many right-wing Jews, who are now deeply religious, started as atheists. I?m not even talking of those Russian Jews who have a typically Slavic urge for a higher idea. Zealous communists before, they became equally zealous believers now. Jewish patriots seek a firm ground for their ideology, thus Avraham Stern embraced Judaism. Those who didn?t, left ...
By: Samson Blinded
Is It Possible To Have a Rational Discussion About Gas Prices?
2008-05-30 00:00:00 By Rob Einaudi Editor-in-Chief Thomas Friedman, a columnist in the New York Times, is delighted by the current high gas prices--so delighted that he is proposing that the US government establish a "price floor" to make sure gas prices stay...
By: CarDomain Blog
Tips Terhindar Dari "RATIONAL CRIME"
2008-04-07 03:41:00 Beberapa hari yang lalu terdengar berita tentang pembantu yang membawa lari harta majikannya sebesar 16 Milyar saat majikannya pergi ke luar kota. Di kesempatan lain terdengar juga berita tentang baby sitter yang membawa lari anak majikannya untuk dijual atau diminta tebusannya. Modus operandi kejahatan ini tergolong baru, pelaku kejahatan memanfaatkan kedekatan dan kepercayaan yang terjalin dengan calon korbannya. Inilah yang disebut RATIONAL CRIME. Pelaku membuai calon korbannya dengan cara berlaku sopan dan baik sehingga menimbulkan rasa percaya calon korban terhadap pelaku kejahatan. Dan saat calon korban lengah (misal, saat tidak di rumah atau pergi ke luar kota) maka pelaku dengan bebasnya melakukan tindak kejahatan tanpa kesulitan. Bisa jadi RATIONAL CRIME ini dilakukan oleh sekelompok orang/sindikat yang terorganisir bukan hanya oleh perseorangan. Kelompok kejahatan ini memanfaatkan situasi dimana calon korban membutuhkan keberadaan si pelaku (pembantu rumah tangga, baby sit...
The (ir)Rational Atheist--More Vox Day
2008-03-30 09:07:00 Starting off chapter two, which is entitled “Defining Science,” is a brief description of the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow, unknown to most, but a troupe of traveling masochists (or so it seems) who represent his caricature of science. These little side stories can have more of an effect than the reader understands, though. Right off the bat, science is seen as either freakish or trivial due to the association with that particular experience of his. Because of this, I find it necessary to give you the actual definition of “science”: 1. a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws 2. systematic knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation… 4. systematized knowledge in general. 5. knowledge, as of facts or principles; knowledge gained by systematic study. 6. a particular branch of knowledge. 7. skill, es...
Rational EGL Rich Web Support
2008-03-29 18:16:00 A set of Eclipse plug-ins that allow you to develop Web 2.0 applications in EGL without JavaScript skills.
By: Server Tales
Java, Web Service, and database apps with Rational App. Developer v7
2008-03-10 18:54:00 Get an overview of Rational Application Developer V7 in this basic tutorial, which includes demos and hello world exercises. This tutorial includes practical exercises that show how to create a Java application, create and invoke a Web service, and create a Web application that can access a Derby database using a Relational Record List.
By: Server Tales
RATIONAL APPROACHES to ILLNESS
2008-03-01 23:50:00 In dealing with any disease, the first step toward diagnosis is found in the health history and its interpretation. All facts of significance in the lifestyle of the individual up to the time of illness should be evaluated as possible contributors to the present problem. Allergies to drugs, foods, orenvironmental factors should also be evaluated in the face of present illness. Second, the careful analysis of the illness under question with all of its various symptoms, including other factors that have ensued from the first onset to the present need to be considered. Most diseases fit certain patterns. As organ systems and their disorders are discussed, these patterns will become obvious. Thus, the intelligent interpretation of a medical history provides one of the most valuable clues to understand illness and its proper diagnosis.Remember this one caution in the proper interpretation of health history. Accurate recall for the patient is very important. However, most sick individuals...
Taking a Break Seems Rational
2008-02-28 07:03:00 My nose is getting irritated as of this moment because my "temporary" officemate decided to buy a perfume he wasn't quite aware of the effect (it actually smells like natural ugly body odor, Mike..) and he is now officially in my "annoying" things/persons list. God, I hate the smell - and he says it's a perfume. Duh, bite me. Anyway, I'm realizing now that I really don't like my job right now,
Rational reform
2008-02-28 01:27:00 The Reform report released a few days ago has elicited an interesting response from Zoe Gannon, writing for the 'democratic left' pressure group Compass. She argues not only against its suggestions (which were perfectly reasonable and caricatured shamefully by Gannon) but against some old punching bags - rational choice theory and 'neo-liberalism'. I will quote it at length, as the whole piece is worth referencing:In the depths of the Cold War economic theorists struggled to create reason in the madness. They sought a model to govern and understand the escalating threat of nuclear war; the answer they found was "game theory".Game theory is based on the perception that individuals will always behave in a rational, selfish, self interested way. Based on this view the Americans created an increasingly deadly arsenal of nuclear weapons ready to destroy Russia if it launched an attack in the hope that Russia would act in its own self interest; it would not attack as long as it believ...
By: Don't trip up
Video: Street preaching: Where rational discussion is a literal impossibili
2008-02-23 00:00:00 "You don't HAVE to be homosexual to be hellbound." Hear that and more brilliance from yet another sandwich board-adorned, self-appointed prophet: It's funny how when he says the above-quoted line about "sinners" other than gays also possibly being hellbound, it...
By: Good As You
Video: Street preaching: Where rational discussion is a literal impossibili
2008-02-22 00:00:00 "You don't HAVE to be homosexual to be hellbound." Hear that and more brilliance from yet another sandwich board-adorned, self-appointed prophet: It's funny how when he says the above-quoted line about "sinners" other than gays also possibly being hellbound, it...
By: Good As You
A High Intensity Training (HIT) Manifesto: Rational Strength Training
2008-02-14 15:06:00 Rational Strength Training: Principles & Casebook (Bodyworx, 1999) is a high intensity training (HIT) manifesto by three very smart people who have seen the light and want to spread the word. The authors, Kevin R. Fontaine, Ph.D., an assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Brian D. Johnston, founder and president of ...
Lost 4.2 Five Flashbacks and Three Rational Explanations
2008-02-08 06:09:00 Lost is firing on all cylinders this new season, with two great episodes in a row.Tonight we learned a lot of what's up with the rescue team that Naomi called in:Four people on the team - and, as Naomi puts it her flashback (5) -Daniel Faraday ... a headcase ... that is, a nut, a somewhat psycho ... maybe with an ability to sense the future, because he senses something about Oceanic 815, when he hears the false report, which he doesn't know is false, about the plane being found with no survivors... (flashback 1)Miles Straume ... a ghost-hunter ... (flashback 2)Charlotte Lewis ... an anthroplogist, who discovers the bones of a polar bear in the Tunisian desert ... with a Dharma tag ... ah ha! ... (flashback 3, and rational explanation #1: so now we know how the polar got to be on the island ... likely a Dharma experiment in breeding or genetic engineering, to make polar bears that can live in warm climates... )Frank Lapidus ... a drunk, in Naomi's words, but also a pilot, as Matth...
By: Infinite Regress
Rational welfare
2008-02-04 18:51:00 As Super Tuesday is just around the corner, it is worth reading Daniel Koffler's piece on Comment is Free last month, where he claims Obama is a "left libertarian" candidate:Instead of recommending traditional welfare-state liberalism as a solvent for socioeconomic inequalities and dislocations, Goolsbee promotes programmes to essentially democratise the market, protecting and where possible expanding freedom of choice, while simultaneously creating rational, self-interested incentives for individuals to participate in solving collective problems. No wonder, then, that Obama's healthcare plan is specifically designed to give people good reason to buy in, without coercing them. Likewise, as George Will reported in a column from October, Goolsbee's proposal for reducing income inequality is to lower barriers to higher education, the primary factor in determining future earnings, and noticeably does not rely on state interventions in the market, which can succeed at equalising incom...
By: Don't trip up
NAR Economist Brings Some Rational Press to Denver Real Estate
2008-01-18 03:10:00 As I have mentioned before, the media coverage of the real estate market in general is usually rather poor. I'll just leave it at that for now. And I am not one to agree with everything that comes out of NAR either (National Association of REALTORS®). In the case of the national media, things tend to ...
Rational Plan Single Project
2008-01-16 07:36:00 Click to enlarge Rational Plan Single Project 3.2.0 RationalPlan is a powerful project management software designed to assist project managers in developing plans, allocating resources, tracking progress, managing budgets and analysing workload.Whether your application is in the area of construction, engineering, services&consulting, software development or a simple student project, RationalPlan can help you ... SHARETHIS.addEntry( { title: "Rational Plan Single Project", url: "http://www.plentyofsoft.com/bu-siness-amp-finance/rational-pla-n-single-project-2/" } );
Rational Proofs of the Truth of Christianity
2008-01-06 00:00:00 Secularists claim that they rely on science and reason to support their beliefs. Many vocal secularists claim that Christians rely on blind faith and believe things contrary to science and reason. This is a gross misunderstanding of the underpinnings of Christian belief. The fact is SCIENCE AND THE BIBLE AGREE! Christianity is a faith. We openly ...
By: Resources zone
Rational Proofs of the Truth of Christianity
2008-01-04 00:00:00 Secularists claim that they rely on science and reason to support their beliefs. Many vocal secularists claim that Christians rely on blind faith and believe things contrary to science and reason. This is a gross misunderstanding of the underpinnings of Christian belief. The fact is SCIENCE AND THE BIBLE AGREE! Christianity is a faith. We openly ...
Fred Thompson - The Rational Candidate
2008-01-02 17:09:00 From Jonathon Adler at The Corner on NRO. Thompson's Problem [Jonathan Adler] Leave it to someone across the pond (in this case, Paul Marks at Samizdata), to identify Fred Thompson's biggest obstacle in this election: Fred Thompson is in the...
By: Stix Blog
Newsflash: Jihad isn’t rational
2007-12-24 19:05:00 Glenn: THIS SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT: “If a nuclear war between Israel and Iran were to break out 16-20 million Iranians would lose their lives - as opposed to 200,000-800,000 Israelis, according to a report recently published by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.” Certainly does sound about right. But I caution against trusting in these numbers actually preventing Iran from doing exactly that… starting a war against Israel. That attitude is exactly the one Ron Paul exhibited with Russert yesterday… and it leaves aside the point that this is a rational argument against such an action on the part of Iran…. and fails utterly to take into account the idea that Jihad is anything but rational.
By: BitsBlog
Is there rational evidence for the existence of God?
2007-12-18 15:55:00 Q: Is there rational evidence for the existence of God? A: Authors Boa and Moody explain that there are essentially three possibilities as to the origin of the universe and the implications about God. READ MORE.
IBM Rational Modelling VS Microsoft Oslo Strategy
2007-12-17 05:47:00 Two recent product moves by IBM and Microsoft throw a spotlight on the different approaches they're taking to modeling in software development. Both moves make it likely that modeling--the process of visually capturing what a system will do, and how--will take on a more important role in the way companies build systems.IBM dominates the modeling field, based on its own experience and that of Rational Software, which it acquired in 2003. Rational set the standard for implementing Unified Modeling Language, a way to use symbols and syntax in models that can be shared across a broad suite of tools. The output of the model may then be used to generate code automatically.IBM last week said it's making its Rational tools more industry specific, starting with the defense, aerospace, and automotive sectors. Its new Rational Test RealTime tool supports standards tied to avionics and defense software testing, as well as a standard for embedded software in cars and trucks. That should drive ...
By: prochow
Day Trading Psychology - An Unspoken Rational Approach
2007-12-03 00:00:00 If you put on a trade and your heart starts pounding, you are *not* ready to trade yet…Some people who aren’t ready to trade have other problems as well: 1. Pulling the trigger to get in 2. Staying with one trading strategy long enough to judge it 3. Letting good trades go bad Day trading psychology plays a ...
The Rational Response Squad: I?m Not a Fan
2007-12-01 19:09:00 I’ve been following the exploits of the Rational Response Squad through the “ministry” of Frank Walton, who runs two blogs dedicated to answering the arguments of atheism. One is dedicated to the Rational Response Squad. Recently, the Rational Response Squad has started a pledge drive for some additional money. The advertisements that they’ve designed for this ...
The rational investor looks beyond price
2007-11-25 23:42:00 by Arne Alsin - FTHow do you value a stock? This is the single most important question that an investor has to answer. If you cannot generate an informed estimate of value, you should not be making buy-and-sell decisions.All rationa4 Vote(s)
By: Market Buzz
Rational investing & tricks the mind plays
2007-11-24 09:41:00 How good an investor are you? If you’re like the average Joe or Jane, you think ? for sure ? you’re better than most. You remember every one of your winners, in detail. You bury your losers. You never average the two together, which means you have no idea whether you’re beating the market or ...
Defying the myths: the rational, educated, secular, prosperous suicide bomb
2007-11-14 16:24:00 Suicide terrorism. A term that in today?s political climate carries a certain image, like the one depicted to the left. One of irrationality and illiteracy, with fanaticism, religious zeal and 70 virgins promised in heaven for the martyr. Etymology The term “terrorism” comes from Latin terrere, “to frighten” via the French word terrorisme, which is often associated ...
IBM Rejuvenates Legacy Systems With Rational Tools
2007-11-12 12:00:00 IBM Rejuvenates Legacy Systems With Rational ToolsIBM Rational Developer for System z v7.1, IBM Rational Business Developer Extension v7.0, and IBM Rational Transformation Workbench v3.1 all target Cobol developers.http://www.informati-onweek....
INTRODUCING The Rational Project Manager: A Thinking Teams Guide to Getting
2007-11-10 17:16:00 It was an eye opener for me. I am talking about a three-day intensive workshop I was a part of last week. It was focused on how to get things done easier, faster, and cheaper. In today’s increasingly complex business environment, work is done in the form of projects. To be profitable and successful, any organization must complete its projects on time and on budget, while also meeting its goals. As a result, the art of project management is vital to business. In the tradition of the phenomenal business bestseller "The Rational Manager", this comprehensive guide explores and explains the rationale, processes, and tools of successful project management. While The Rational Project Manager covers the nuts and bolts of the discipline, it also offers a unique concentration on the logic and thought processes necessary for successful project completion. Each person is different, and the work-shop provided a systematic approach to address each individual's input in relation to the bigger g...
What People Are Saying About "The Rational Project Manager"
2007-11-10 14:32:00 “Change for business today is not a spectator sport. Translating strategic vision into bottom-line results requires discipline, execution, and participation—a theme that resonates throughout The Rational Project Manager. Longman and Mullins present a commonsense approach to executing against opportunities that is grounded in logic and resourcefulness.”— George W. BuckleyChairman and Chief Executive Officer Brunswick Corporation“The Rational Project Manager provides much-needed insights and tools for leaders at all levels. The bane of any leader’s worklife is those initiatives that lack focus, engender poor decision making, and are misaligned with organizational culture and goals. Given the ambiguity, complexity, and change that are the new baseline assumptions in the workplace, The Rational Project Manager’s simple, flexible approach fills an important gap overlooked by most books on the subject.”— Steve SchlossVice President, Human ResourcesTime Inc.“The Rationa...
Bad Credit Secured Loan: A Rational Decision During Adversity
2007-11-06 11:15:00 Tip! Here are some things that will help you to find the bad credit help that you need. Bad credit secured loan is designed to rescue those people who have encountered bad credit past. The loan is secured against your asset, which is usually your home. Hence, lenders shows no tantrums availing you bad credit secured loan. Bad credit is common and wide spread among large numbers of people. It can strike you at any time and makes you financially incapable to afford various requirements. Poor credit history certainly affects your financial status but it does not imply that you can’t purchase anything. Bad credit does not ruin you monetarily and you can always re-establish your credit past with bad credit secured loan. Tip! Visit Bad Credit Help for more resources and help with your credit. Bad credit secured loan is easy to obtain as compared to bad credit unsecured loan, because of the involvement of real estate in the former one. The certain benefits that you are offered by len...
Rational economic behavior?
2007-10-26 20:06:00 Forbes is out with an article by Bill Bonner and Lila Rajiva drawing on a major theme of their best-seller Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets. In a few short paragraphs, they demolish an all-too-common misconception in economics — that left to their own devices, humans will act in their own rational self interest: No prejudices are more ...
Myth of the rational agent
2007-10-24 06:13:00 Why doesn't laissez faire capitalism work? (At least that is what the vast majority of economics believe.) One reason - though not the only reason - is the erroneous assumption that people (called agents in econ-lingo) always acts rationally. According to this myth consumers are capable of and do always do what is best for them. Why this idea is flawed should be obvious.People are not always able to make optimal decisions. People may lack information, especially since making an informed decision can be a time-consuming science in many areas - making it outright impossible for consumer to make ideal decisions. Moreover, consumer are manipulated by advertising, simply act in a stupid manner people sometimes do (unless you believe that purchasing cocaine constitutes a wise choice, for example) or act in accordance with certain cultural norms that may prevent them from making an optimal decision. The decisions people make are influenced by advertising, sometimes irrational feelings and...
Terrorism as a Rational Act of Resistance
2007-10-21 22:55:00 I'm tired of hearing people say that suicide bombing and other such acts of terrorism are irrational. There are many ways to opine about suicide bombing: we can be morally opposed to the specific tactic, we can support it in theory but oppose it in practice, we can be opposed to the ideology behind it, we can support it in some circumstances and not others, we can armchair speculate about its effectiveness, etc. But we cannot really say that it is an irrational tactic. Resistance ranges from demonstrations, riots, general strikes, petitions, destruction of property or symbols, and "everyday forms of resistance" such as false compliance, theft, sabotage, foot dragging, popular discourse, etc. Acts of violent resistance are simply one other tactic, and potentially a powerful one, for the weak to influence the strong. As such, they are as rational as any other tactic. Irrational would mean there was no reason behind the act, that it was a senseless act of violence for no purpose. But ...
By: Red Jenny
"Investment must be rational; If you don't understand it, don't do it." -
2007-10-15 18:37:00 My investment strategy has always been more Carrie Bradshaw ("I like my money where I can see it...in my closet") than Warren Buffet. News that Prada is aiming for an IPO next year though may make me dip my toes into the more traditional speculative options. After all, a popular investment theory seems to be that you should invest in what you know...one glance at my closet tells me I know Prada, all too well. In fact, prior purchases will now be categorized as "investment research". And going forward, I will add this to my justification process. Yes, the ever popular "cost per wear" theory will be joined by the "but this is helping my portfolio" theory. Which means that the grey, elbow-length, ribbed, knitted gloves that I have been oggling when I walk past the Prada store now seem to be something that even Warren may approve of.
Hello, My Name is Rational Reasons-Guy, And I?m Coming to Your Church Tomor
2007-10-13 15:26:00 I?m a truth-seeker. I believe things that I can prove. I?m a rational person. I believe everything has its reasons, so I shy away from religion as much as possible. But I?ve heard about your church, that maybe you?re different, so I?m going to give you a try tomorrow. Here ...
By: davidfoster.tv
An Unspoken Rational Approach
2007-10-09 18:05:00 If you put on a trade and your heart starts pounding, you are *not* ready to trade yet...Some people who aren't ready to trade have other problems as well:1. Pulling the trigger to get in2. Staying with one trading strategy long enough to judge it3. Letting good trades go badDay trading psychology plays a role in these issues, and books have been written to help traders deal with these problems, but most of them do not offer a practical solution.In order to be successful at day trading support and resistance, you must have confidence in your trading strategy. Most traders with less than 2 or 3 years of experience, and for those who are just starting to learn day trading...well, they have nothing to be confident about. If your trading strategy isn't making you money consistently, in "real time", you can't have confidence in it. But, how can you tell if your method is any good when you don't yet have the nerve and discipline to trade it?Day trading psychology involves building co...
Is Rational Thought Dead?
2007-09-26 18:20:00 I think the "dumbing" down of America is complete.The question is whether we will ever be able to return to a place in this nation where critical thought rules our decisions and opinions, rather than rumor, conjecture, or speculation?I am not sure if this will ever happen, but it kills me to hear so many people who are thought to be otherwise intelligent, be so woefully out of touch with America, the party they pledge allegiance too, and the political system that protects, defames, defends, demoralizes , enables, disables, and spies for and against them.Yes, our Constitutional system is the best, and even at it's best it's not perfect...But it would be closer to perfect if those that participated in it actually understood it, and used their brains to question both the system and those who are actively involved in it.Instead we have devolved into an impatient nation, wedded to the crawl. A nation of citizens to lazy to read a newspaper. A nation of drones glued to a TV and enthra...
Family Re-unification Immigration: A Rational Solution
2007-09-25 08:30:00 Updated September 25:There has been a lot of debate lately about family reunification immigration into the US. The recent US immigration bill sought to limit such immigration and to promote "skills-based" immigration instead. The problem is that we really do not need either form of immigration.There is no shortage of skills, in general, in the US, that needs to be addressed by massive immigration of skilled workers. In fact, all that this has done in the recent past is to devastate the wages of US workers. To their eternal shame, the US Left has supported this anti-worker abomination. The Left and the US Hispanic Lobby also opposed changing family reunification immigration.Family reunification immigration in the US is a great big mess. Suppose I move to the Philippines, or, say, anywhere else on Earth. Why should I have the God-given right to drag my mother, father, siblings, sister-in-law and niece with me, not to mention aunts, cousins, grown kids if I had them and whatnot?Yet thi...
By: Robert Lindsay
Are You a Rational Trader?
2007-09-19 10:19:00 The following example is taken from the work of Kahneman and Tversky: Consider the following scenario: Linda is 31 years old, single, outspoken, and very bright. She majored in philosophy. As a student, she was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice, and also participated in anti-nuclear demonstrations. Which is more likely? Linda is a bank ...
Are You a Rational Trader?
2007-09-19 10:19:00 The following example is taken from the work of Kahneman and Tversky: Consider the following scenario: Linda is 31 years old, single, outspoken, and very bright. She majored in philosophy. As a student, she was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice, and also participated in anti-nuclear demonstrations. Which is more likely? Linda is a bank ... More on this topic (What's this?) Big Moves For Bank Stocks (Investment U, 9/14/09) Judge Rakoff Rejects Bank of America-Merrill Settlement, Orders Trial (naked capitalism, 9/14/09) IMF Head Says Crisis Set to Continue (naked capitalism, 9/12/09) Read more on Banking, Historical Volatility at Wikinvest
Why non-belief is the rational position to take
2007-09-09 17:08:00 The “Is There a God?” has a new post called I?m not an atheist, I?m areligious. I was writing a comment there, but it was getting too long, so I’m posting it here. While I agree with most of the post (that religion is to blame for the Crusades, the Inquisition, 9/11, Hitler’s anti-semitism, and so ...
By: Way of the Mind
Rational - izer
2007-09-05 07:58:00 So tonight I was at the gym with every intention of jogging. Friday night, I jogged 1 mile and walked 1 mile - it felt good, and wasn’t too challenging, so I’m sure I could jog two miles. Not to sound totally lame, but here’s the problem. I have the old version of the iPod shuffle. It doesn’t have a screen, so the music is just stored on there as one big list. Your choices are to leave it on shuffle, and go by the luck of the draw, or put it on continuous play, and it plays in order. It’s a 1 GB shuffle, and I have it full of songs, so playing them in order is kind of boring. BUT, my running music - Airborn Ranger cadences - is somewhere down in the middle. The rest of the music is pretty mellow with beats all over the place, which isn’t conducive to running at all. I tried for 30 minutes to click through each song using the FFWD button to find the cadences while I was on the treadmill tonight, and no luck. I’m not sure what the problem was,...
Maliki: Critics overstep 'rational limits'
2007-09-03 08:24:00 The Iraqi premier accuses naysayers in the U.S. of failing to realize the scope of his nation's problems.
By: Get rich
The Only Time The Stock Market Is Rational Is When It’s Not A Stock Marke
2007-09-02 00:35:00 (continued) Why in the hell is any of this even necessary? Simply: The worst possible thing we can do, as the most prudent class of investors the world has ever known, is to think we can second guess this irrational beast: to think she can ever be rational or that we can fully understand her, and to assimilate these into our thinking. Then she would win, instead of us. The extent to which
By: I Will Not Die
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