GrafoDexia

This site is devoted to copyright and issues of 'intellectual property,' particularly the issue's analytical aspects. It also concerns itself with the gap between public perception and the true facts, and with the significant lag time between the coverage on more technical sites and the mainstream press. For site feed, see: http://grafodexia.blogspot.com/atom.xml To see the list of sites monitored to create this site, see: http://rpc.bloglines.com/blogroll?html=1&id=CopyrightJournal

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Gelman does some explaining of how Shazam works.

Saturday, October 17, 2009







Not the usual topic here, but I have been pondering bonds lately and needed a place to post a graph to illustrate a point.

We now return to our regularly-scheduled programming.
























Sources of bond return, from here


















Simple simulation to see how much of a difference adding a volatile yet higher-underlying-return asset class makes. Assumptions: Yield of total market is 4% and SD of 6.5%, yield of new asset class is 6% SD of 8%.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Copyright documentary screening in our own backyard.

Diabetes paper is finally out. Ironically enough, I did most of the analysis on this from Ghana, with 12-hour blackouts every 36 hours bridged by hooking an inverter up to a car battery. Good times.