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Winner’s Curse

» by Chewxy January 30th, 2010 at 3:41 pm » Comments (0)

In my experimental economics class 2 years ago (wow, it’s been that long?) we studied something called the Winner’s Curse. Essentially, what happens is when the winner of an auction (of a common value type) typically overpays for the auction. In some sense it’s a phyrric victory. Of course, the extreme form is by overpaying. [...]



Rock Band Guitar Design Failure

» by Chewxy January 26th, 2010 at 1:53 am » Comments (2)

I’m moving houses again. This time, to a different state. So, as you can guess, I’m packing stuff up. And because this time round I cannot just put everything into the car and go (Australia is testament to failure of human cognition of large distances – one simply cannot visualize the distance from city to [...]



Thinking About Entropy

» by Chewxy September 19th, 2009 at 3:54 am » Comments (0)

Ye gods, its the time of the month again. I rant as much as a woman constantly having PMT (I can imagine a barrage of feminists protesting this post now, you go girls!). And yes, its that time of every month again, where I feel so bloated from everything that happened. Its that time again, [...]



The Geek’s Desk

» by Chewxy September 20th, 2008 at 3:36 am » Comments (4)

YesIt’s been a while since I last posted a desktop picture (the last time, I posted a picture of the dining table. Previous times were of my desk back in Malaysia). I realize I haven’t posted pictures of my current desk, so here it is:



King of Kernel Panic

» by Chewxy September 16th, 2008 at 5:00 pm » Comments (6)

Short rant. I was doing some work earlier. Then out of a sudden, my PC BSOD’d on me. So, fine. I can always continue my work on the Ubuntu laptop (though by then I had lost about 4 hours of work) while my Vista machine scans itself for errors.
So I booted up my Ubuntu machine, [...]



The Worst Kind of Error

» by Chewxy July 10th, 2008 at 5:59 pm » Comments (3)

Imagine my anguish this morning. I had set down the laptop on the floor last night to process some millions of lines of data. This morning, I got this message. And since it was a debug run, I didn’t save the code. Aha.
Nothing was blocking the airflow, and Melbourne’s temperature at night was about 8 [...]



Stupid Software

» by Chewxy April 9th, 2008 at 9:23 pm » Comments (2)

Software are not people. They’re stupider than people. Here’s a list of stupid software I’ve encountered (and got very frustrated with) in the past week:

EViews 6
I know I’ve given Eviews 6 quite a thumbs up. But that was on a small scale of data (about 5000 observations – like all my econometrics assignment have). But [...]