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grayc

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About grayc

Gray Calhoun. I teach economics and econometrics at Iowa State. My websites are and .

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    Comment #4733842

    From what I can remember of the Steve Jobs biography (and assuming it's accurate) yes, many people at Xerox understood that they had developed something revolutionary.

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    Comment #4729537

    Without getting into politics (too much)... there are a lot of reasons for different responses between this hurricane and Katrina. Parts of New Orleans being below sea level probab…

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    Comment #4723331

    "However, all your "friends" are on it. Nobody wants to go back through that process on an upstart network. Nobody has the energy or motivation." Another possibility is that the ne…

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    Comment #4716066

    For what it's worth, the basic reasons I use some form of bookmarks are: 1. I want to go back to a website for new content; or 2. I want to store content to read/view later; or 3. …

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    Comment #4699368

    "We used only one Sunday afternoon for ours on the second run when we got in and I don't see the point of wasting time except getting few rounds of feedback and spellcheck." I thin…

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    Comment #4686826

    slashdot?

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    Comment #4676256

    That looks nice. You could improve things a lot by using even a simple model to account for opponent quality, home field advantage, etc.: a simple fixed-effects regression model wi…

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    Comment #4577484

    Like twitter or facebook but open, decentralized, and unarchivable would be nice. Something along the lines of Off The Record (not google talk's) where users could disavow messages…

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    Comment #4577350

    Have you tried: http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_n... from http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2011/06/23/how-to-find-the-rss...