Spurlock gives an interesting view of the advertising industry and discusses the benefits of embracing transparency.
Category: Notes
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Bruce Alexander – Addiction: What to Do When Everything Else Has Failed
Alexander gives an overview on how individuals and society can change our perception of addiction to be more accurate and address the underlying causes that lead to the addiction.
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Steven Levitt: Why do crack dealers still live with their moms?
Levitt breaks down a collection of data gathered about inner-city gangs and shows that there is surprisingly little money in lower ranks of the drug world.
Steven Levitt: Why do crack dealers still live with their moms? (TED)
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Sebastian Thrun: Google’s driverless car
A not so interesting update on the very interesting topic of Google’s self-driving cars.
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Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex
Hartford describes ways in which Trial and Error development trumps the God Complex method of development (i.e. bringing in a smart person who has all the answers). Instead of looking for the ‘single best’ answer (which Hartford shows has failed time and again), he encourages a use of the old-fashioned ‘trial and error’ (which Hartford shows generally succeeds).