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. [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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:

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]