--If you are still getting any "news" from Breitbart, you are officially an idiot.
--What would you do with $400 billion? Well, you could fund the NIH for 10 years, with 5% annual increases, and still have money (about $10 billion) to spare. Or, you could buy 365 airplanes that might or might not work. (h/t to commenter and occasional contributor Dave)
--I was at a cardiology meeting this weekend. There's a lot of money in tubes.
--Have you watched House of Cards? I was put off by Kevin Spacey talking to the camera at first, but it is growing on me. I find the characters a bit two-dimensional, but the story is pretty entertaining. I don't know if this sort of thing (i.e., producing its own content) will ultimately help Netflix fend off the coming wave of competition in the digital streaming market, but it is a substantial improvement over Lilyhammer (which I couldn't get past the first 10 minutes of...seriously, it's terrible.)
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Did you read the piece in the NY Times about House of Cards? (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/25/business/media/for-house-of-cards-using-big-data-to-guarantee-its-popularity.html?pagewanted=all)
It's interesting that all the data they get from their viewers went into "knowing" that this would be a big hit before the first day of shooting. I have only watched parts of some episodes, but it seems entertaining enough.
Hadn't read the NYT piece, but I did hear about the way they used the data to pick the project.
It seems that combinatorial approach would have limits. Someone could look at our household data and decide that we would really enjoy an animated British reality show about spies directed by Mark Duplass. But somehow I don't think that would work very well.
Dunno about the logic of cardiology vs. fighter jets, but as an engineer, I've seen what happens when you try to put everything onto one platform. Suffice it to say that adding VTOL and carrier landing capability to a fighter jet is going to either (a) shoot up the price or (b) involve some serious engineering tradeoffs.
Given the DOD's willingness to gold-plate just about everything, "both" is the likely answer. Sigh.
( to draw a picture, one military environmental test is to soak elecronics in a jet fuel that they've not used in about 30 years....OK, this is applicable exactly how?)
We are currently halfway through House of Cards. It started off strong but then fell into the tired old tropes pretty quickly. It disempowered some power players with things like bullshit sex. I'm hoping it turns around but it seems to be getting slower and shallower as it goes.
We are currently halfway through House of Cards. It started off strong but then fell into the tired old tropes pretty quickly. It disempowered some power players with things like bullshit sex. I'm hoping it turns around but it seems to be getting slower and shallower as it goes.
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