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The WSJ today has an article about Russian professor Igor Panarin, who for years has been predicting that the economic and moral turpitude of the United States would cause economic crisis and civil war, leading to the disbanding of the States… in 2010. Two words: Clay...Modeling Market Pschology
Last week the NYTimes published a very interesting op-ed entitled, “This Economy Does Not Compute”—highly recommended reading. Not only does the article discuss the present U.S. financial crisis (as you’d expect), but also computer modeling of market psychology. This application of AI...Those who don’t remember history…
…are apparently condemned to a life in politics. Lately I’ve been on an NPR kick, listening to the news and such on the way to and from work. Normally I can’t take this too long; after a few days, I tend to think I may just have Considered All Things, and want to go back to ignoring most of...Do yourself a favor…
…and skip one or two of the “summer blockbuster” movies, and go see Once, if you can find a theatre playing it. It’s so worth it! A beautiful little film about people trying to be understood—particularly through music—yeah, it’s all about the music. With Glen Hansard...Oh, the Irony
No, not irony like Alanis Morrisette asks “Isn’t It Ironic”; as my college buddy Tyler used to say, that song just listed a bunch of things that “just plain suck”. No, today’s irony is that the blizzard that swooped across the Midwest has arrived here in Maine, so...Fresh Film
I’m excited for the new movie Breach to be released, ever since I heard about it on NPR’s Fresh Air the other night (“Eric O’Neill and Billy Ray Discuss ‘Breach’”). That’s good, because I haven’t been interested in a new film for a while (what’s...About Me
My name is Eric Wallace. I'm quite fond of coffee, snorkel masks, hacking, recreational therapy, alternative uses for spam, and twelve-tone improvisation. Some of these things are true, but I'm not telling you which.
