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The Best Statistical Programming Language is ...Javascript?

R-Bloggers has recently been buzzing about Julia, the new kid on the statistical programming block. Julia, however, is hardly the sole contender for the market of R defectors, with Clojure-fork library Incanter generating buzz as well. Even with these two making noise, I think there’s a huge point that everyone is missing, and it’s front-and-center [...]

Prospect Theory and the Application to Harvard

It occurs to me that my original post regarding the application to Harvard was lacking an important component: namely, prospect theory. Prospect Theory is an alternative to Rational Choice Theory which attempts to model the manner in which people actually think, instead of the manner in which perfectly rational agents think. It was pioneered in [...]

Academic Gobbledygook Makes Sense: A Response to Weissberg

If you haven’t read Robert Weissburg’s “Why Academic Gobbledygook Makes Sense,” you really should. Here’s the short of it in his own words:

Imagine a savvy un-PC second-year political science graduate musing about future specialization. With Commissars everywhere the best strategy is to choose sub-fields that are basically applied math–public choice, game theory, [...]

Rationality and the Application to Harvard

I just sent off my application to the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, sealed with a crunchy $105. That’s a non-trivial sum of money to a poor Master’s student. And yet I can predict with near certainty that my application is dead on arrival. So why bother doing it? Let’s break this down, [...]

Classical Economics and the Greek Debt Crisis

[This was a little paper for my INTA 6202: Comparative Politics course. The compiled version is also available.]

The credit crisis in the Eurozone has sent tremors throughout the global economy, and the world is anxiously waiting to see if these tremors precede a coming earthquake. Greece has come under particular scrutiny as the probability [...]

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