This history of World War I traces the intertwined lives of a selection of British citizens before and during the conflict. Some supported the war and some opposed it, and most of them were fairly important for their respective side.
The scope and senselessness of the tragedy are difficult to comprehend, but this book helps a little. What terrible mistakes are we making that future generations will look back on with incomprehension?
Fantastic. Kahneman reviews much of the recent research in behavioral economics and related disciplines, including his own work (he is one of the founders of the field).
The overarching topic is the tension between our fast, intuitive modes of thought and our more deliberative, somewhat rational side.
It is an enlightening and humbling tour around the limits of human rationality.
I’m using the default Emacs 23 on Ubuntu 11.10 and both the HTML and Haskell flymake modes seem to be broken. For the HTML mode the problem seems to be that the version of xmlstarlet installed on Ubuntu needs another command line switch to make it print out the information that flymake needs, like line numbers. Here is some elisp code to fix that:
Wordpress made a nice summary of my blog activity for 2011. It’s pretty much all Twisted, all the time. Then it goes on to suggest I should write more posts like that! I guess I should take the hint.
Ahem. Yes. I read a book called the Vampire Witch Twins. But in Spanish! I still have something like four verb tenses to learn, I’m not ready for the heavy stuff yet.
An entertaining and spirited defense of consumer culture. I’m not sure it completely makes its case, but it’s well worth reading for the novel perspective. Warning: may induce moral panic in certain personality types!
This history of World War I traces the intertwined lives of a selection of British citizens before and during the conflict. Some supported the war and some opposed it, and most of them were fairly important for their respective side.
