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Apr 16, 2014
One Step Closer to Ending Open Enrollment
D.C. has extended the special enrollment period for the District's health exchange. If this progresses, we are getting closer and closer to ending open seasons for benefits signups. This can only be…
Apr 14, 2014
Password Requirements
This pretty well sums it up, and everyone's encountering the worst in the wake of Heartbleed. These types of password requirements are misguided and out of proportion. The password for my bank…
Apr 8, 2014
The National Science Foundation Finds Ignorance
:::figure{src="/assets/img/news/SunAroundEarth.webp" alt="Respondents Agreeing the Sun Revolves Around the Earth" align="center" width="100"} Respondents Agreeing the Sun Revolves Around the Earth ::: Back in February, much was made of an NSF study showing roughly…
Apr 7, 2014
Golden Balls Revisited via Radiolab
::youtube{video="S0qjK3TWZE8"} Game theory is awesome and so is the prisoner's dilemma. It's even better when it happens to British people. The clip above from the British gameshow, Golden Balls, shows the dilemma…
Apr 3, 2014
Tunnel 57
PRI's 99 Percent Invisible tells how Ralph Kabisch dug a tunnel from West Berlin, under the Berlin Wall, to the East, helping 57 East Germans escape to West Berlin in 1964. Kabisch…
Apr 2, 2014
A Theorem on the Consumer Surplus
Theorem. Let \[latex\]m\[/latex\] be a scaling factor and \[latex\]y = \\beta\ 0 + \\beta\ 1 x\ 1 + \\cdots\[/latex\] be a generalized linear model such that \[latex\]y\[/latex\] is the amount of a…
Apr 1, 2014
Unsinkable in Space
Wikipedia is a wealth of random trivia. On the second Mercury mission, Gus Grissom's capsule blew its hatch prematurely and the astronaut nearly drowned, as shown in The Right Stuff . There…
Mar 31, 2014
Slides for my Dissertation Defense
I have posted the slides for my dissertation defense, this morning. NFIP Dissertation Defense from James Howard
Mar 14, 2014
Financial Metrics for Homeowners' Associations
Private Applications of Local Government Risk Metrics from James Howard Image by Sean Harbaugh.