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CIA briefings question is clever

rdan Check 0:25 for information on Bob Graham’s briefing Check 2:50 for information on WMD briefing at about the same time Check 3:50 for information on Bob Graham’s now notable…

Information cascade and decision making structure

by noni mausa Lifted from comments at Economist’s View on a post about information cascades (following the crowd…when does the crowd start?): I participated in a classroom project modeling the…

Medical Expenditure Panel Survey

…the MEPS-HC respondents. Data files containing only this supplemental respondent information are not available, but the information is incorporated into the MEPS-HC data files. In 1996 only, MEPS included a…

Information asymmetries

…book-to-market ratios, and other factors,” the authors conclude. “Geographic location is closely related to information asymmetries.” Is this accurate to a significant degree? If so, Why? How does it play…

…to glean information that could prevent a major terrorist attack during this election year. A few dozen voluntary interviews of community leaders, students, businesspeople and others have been conducted so…

Day of Giving benefiting Pets for Life today

information, email subscriptions, recent actions and donations, or billing information for monthly gifts. To stop ALL email from The Humane Society of the United States, click here (or reply via…

Here’s what’s missing from reports that “[t]he FCC just passed sweeping new rules to protect your online privacy” by a 3-2 vote: That the three who voted for the Rule are Democrats and that the two who voted against it are Republicans. And that the president’s party gets the majority of board members, from which the chairman is selected.

Federal regulators have approved unprecedented new rules to ensure broadband providers do not abuse their customers’ app usage and browsing history, mobile location data and other sensitive personal information generated…

Stealth

…dishes were developed before computers at a time when information processing was strictly analog.  Existing phased array radars are huge devices with identical evenly spaced antennas.  This makes the problem…