an online record of online meanderings
“…results showed that the dominant causes of [food] price increases during this period were investor speculation and ethanol conversion. ”
in Predictive validation of a quantitative model of food prices including speculators and ethanol conversion.
~ How algorithms shape our world | Video on TED
““We camp, we live wherever, whatever,” he said and snubbed his cigarette out in the ashtray for a very long time. The ocean nearby looked more like a lake, peaceful and flat forever, a gray sheen that spat little wavelets upon the shore and sucked them back out again just as fast” — Scott Johnson, April 2011. Guernica
“Excuse me? It’s ridiculous. All of it. God, Allah, Elohim, Mithras, Zeus, atoms, quarks, the Higgs boson, genes, gravity, germs: all bollocks. All, to put it another way, stories.”
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