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Comment on Measuring the Complexity of the Law : The United States Code [Repost] by Alan E. Dunne

Alan E. Dunne — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:12:58 +0000

With Respect

Have you thought of doing, or does any reader of this post intend to do, a parallel analysis of constitutions? In particular, of the constitution of India, said to be more detailed as well as more favourable to the federal government versus those of Australia, Canada and the United States?

Yours Sincerely

Comment on ICPSR 2010 Summer Program — Introduction to Computing for the Study of Complex Systems by michal

michal — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:40:25 +0000

Thanks for the links!

I attended this course in the summer of 2002, it was really interesting although, in my feeling, a bit far away from actual problems in the social sciences. It is great to see that, at least in the syllabus, the content now includes a lot of applications together with the contemporary theory. A step in a definitely right direction.

Good luck in teaching. Pity I cannot attend…

Comment on ICPSR 2010 Summer Course by paco

paco — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:06:51 +0000

the second set of slides is very helpful — gabriel wurzer’s youtube lessons are very good too — am going to have a fun weekend learning netlogo

Comment on ICPSR 2010 Summer Course by Frank Enrique (paco)

Frank Enrique (paco) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:22:30 +0000

Dan, thank you for making your slides available on your website — I can see you put a lot of effort into putting them together — good intro to netlogo

Comment on Facts About the Length of H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act (AHCAA) by Aida Velez

Aida Velez — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 18:15:26 +0000

Someone was bored when it came down to counting word for word. But, it was an informative post.

Comment on Stephen Wolfram: Computing a Theory of Everything by Daniel P. Fitzpatrick Jr.

Daniel P. Fitzpatrick Jr. — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:26:25 +0000

Stephen Wolfram offered three important facts in his book: “A New Kind of Science”

1. Mathematics can only explain simple things.

2. You need a model to explain complicated things.

3. BUT a simple model can be used to explain something complicated.

Therefore:

Are all the fundamental forces nothing but simple PHASE relationships?

“in phase attract”

Type those three words – above – into Google (Include quote marks) to learn not only the basics of electricity but how all the fundamental forces work.

Or click the following link that will give you the same page in Google. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=%22in+phase+attract%22&btnG=Google+Search

Not only do all electric motors obey these phase laws but this entire universe does as well.

(Click link below.)
http://www.amperefitz.com/in.phase.attract.htm

Comment on New Paper Available on SSRN: A Profitable Trading and Risk Management Strategy Despite Transaction Cost by Currency Trading Center

Currency Trading Center — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:14:09 +0000

As far as predicting its performance in the future, we have performed a number of simulations that “generalize” our results to other time periods that are not too dramatically unlike our training sample. Note that the method does outperform the market even through the recent equity declines in 2008 and 2009.
Currency Trading Center
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Justin

Comment on Facts About the Length of H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act (AHCAA) by Mark Vice

Mark Vice — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:20:33 +0000

Great post!

Comment on How Python can Turn the Internet into your Dataset: Part 1 by Raza

Raza — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:19:55 +0000

Istead of all that you can just use xpath and search and get the href for the first result something like this:*

Comment on How Python can Turn the Internet into your Dataset: Part 1 by Raza

Raza — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:11:59 +0000

then use xpaths and get the href for the first result something like this
page=paser(“http://www.nfl.com/players/search?category=name&filter=”+player+”&playerType=current”)
find_profile=eree.XPath(“xpath/@href”)
profile=find_profile(page)[0]

Pretty much as simple as that.

Comment on House Vote – H.R.3590 – How Did Your Representative Vote [Via NY Times] by H.R. 3590

H.R. 3590 — Wed, 12 May 2010 04:37:58 +0000

A year-long series of debates and negotiations, tweaks and overhauls, soon followed. The Senate voted in favor of ending the debate on December 23, and passed their bill the day after.
http://www.hr3590.com/healthcare-bill/h-r-3590-health-care-for-everyone.html H.R. 3590: Health Care for Everyone