December 2010
19 posts
Stadium or Money Pit? →
I saw this articleon Yahoo today. It talks about how some New Yorkers (New Jersians?) are already complaining about their new $1.6 billion Meadowlands stadium. I think what they should be complaining about is that the OLDMeadowlands Stadium - you know, the one that is now rubble- is not even paid for yet. Read on:
It’s the gift that keeps on taking. The old Giants Stadium, demolished to make...
Penultimate
Today is the penultimate day of the year
Snow shovels and speculators
A speculator is someone who buys snow shovels in the summer and sells them after a blizzard
“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does...”
– Mahatma Ghandi
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Trial and Error
I think there’s a misconception about the phrase trial and error. Perhaps this is because it contains the word ‘error.’ The misconception likely stems from what we want to believe about the process of learning. Can we learn risky tasks through trial and error? Most people are uncomfortable with this thought. Take surgery for example. Would you want there to be any error...
Touch Consult: New Features and Fixes →
Every start up needs to iterate, and iterate quickly. They should also iterate in the direction of their customer feedback. We’re trying to do just that. Read on to hear about our new developments…
What do life insurance companies and non profits... →
Not much at first glance. A deeper look reveals otherwise.
There has been a lot of debate recently about reinstating the estate tax. For those unaware, the estate tax has stood at 0% over the last few years. Effectively this has allowed individuals to pass on their estates to their heirs without a huge tax hit to the families. This burden can be quite large. It’s especially onerous...
Do Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Make Lying...
Pretend you are a doctor. You examine a patient. You then document your findings on the medical record, or in this case the EMR. If you document that the patient has a “regular [heart] rate and rhythm” and they do not you either: 1) listened but interpreted it incorrectly, 2) listened to to it, heard it correctly but documented it incorrectly or 3) did not listen but documented it...
Even more than "Billions and Billions" →
It’s fun because it gets you thinking about these large numbers,” Conroy said. Conroy looked up how many cells are in the average human body — 50 trillion or so — and multiplied that by the 6 billion people on Earth. And he came up with about 300 sextillion.
So the number of stars in the universe “is equal to all the cells in the humans on Earth ” a kind of funny...
Touch Consult Invited to Demo the List to More... →
Phil will be heading back to Carolinas Medical Center to demo the List to a few more residency programs later this week. Word is spreading…
Who is Lebanon's Central Bank Governor? Maybe we... →
“Did someone predict the crisis before it happened? … If the answer is no, I don’t want to hear what the person says. If the person saw the crisis coming, then I want to hear what they have to say.” - Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan, 2010 …
With admirable foresight, Dr. Salameh paid attention to the Lebanese banks’ off-balance sheet items, forbade (in...