Archive for March, 2009

Michael Jordan, Failure

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March 31, 2009 • Posted in: Flickr • No Comments

The Appearance of Value and the Value of Appearance

As the abundant and continual revealing of the economic debacle of the financial industry shows, not all is as it seems. In the most egregious cases of the Ponzi schemes, the appearance of value is all that was needed to create enormous wealth for the defrauders and liquidate the same amount (not to mention the [...]

March 30, 2009 • Tags: , , • Posted in: Entrepreneurship • Comments Closed

Power law and second language acquisition

The original formulation of Zipf’s law was based on naturally occurring word frequencies and their rank order in a given English language corpus. For one example, merely 135 words accounted for 50% of the total word frequencies. This could be extended to phrases as well. For foreign language learners, this means that there is some [...]

March 26, 2009 • Tags: , , • Posted in: Language, Memory • 2 Comments

Startup Metrics for Pirates – Feb 2009 – Dave McClure

Startup Metrics for Pirates (FOWA/Miami, Feb 2009)View more presentations from Dave Mcclure. Tweet

The Six Mistakes of Man – Cicero

The delusion that personal gain is made by crushing others. The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected. Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it. Refusing to set aside trivial preferences. Neglecting development and refinement of the mind, and not acquiring the habit of reading and studying. [...]

Mnemonic Devices, Memory, Remembering, Learning – Cognitive Architecture, Application Areas, and Techniques

On January 1, 2009 CNN published an article on memory. It is already March 1st, and so now would be a good time to review and expand on that article, in the hopes of improving our own memory. It may be useful to conceive of the Art of Memory as having four broad application areas, [...]