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Speculations on astronomy, astrophysics, news I find interesting, theoretical issues, science and science policy. I will digress into computational physics, science fiction and general issues and basically whatever I feel like whenever. And, of course, cats.
Still working on an analytic exact approximate solution to the herding problem.
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March 14, 2010
Það mælti mín móðir
að mér skildi kaupa
fley og fagrar árar
fara á brott með jeðum
standa upp í stafni
stýra dýrum X-vængi
halda svo til hafnar
höggva mann og annan
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:13 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 11, 2010
So... these credit default swap thingies,
they pay out if some credit instrument goes bad, like a bond issue,
and, famously, financial companies buy them as side bets hedges against financial "events", including betting against instruments they are promoting to clients, and deals they have no involvement in at all
and they are not regulated
Soooooo........
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:50 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: random
compare and contrast
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:06 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 8, 2010
Já, maður reddar þessu bara einhvernveginn...
Diplomatic cable form Reykjavik to Washington - Jan. 2010
UK/NL offer to ISK re: Icesave (PDF)
ISK negotiating team report (PDF)
h/t Evil Henry Paulson on Calculated Risk
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:57 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 7, 2010
As the three remaining readers may have noticed, I've been a bit too busy to blog for a couple of weeks.
But other blogs go on, and right now, over on SciBling "Eruptions" there is a fascinating live discussion in the comments on the possibility of an imminent eruption in Eyjafjallajökull.
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:06 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 26, 2010
Category: astro
That is all.
Now get back to writing some bloomin' proposals, you slackers.
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:35 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 24, 2010
Category: astro
So, who is taking odds on the Hubble Proposal Cycle 18 Deadline being postponed from this friday to next week because of The Upcoming Monster Storm!
Even if it misses Baltimore, as the current track would have it, our genteel colleagues in Boston might be Not Amused.
Of course none of us are betting on a delay, we're rushing to get our proposals done thoroughly and early.
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:47 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 23, 2010
Category: academia
to answer a question: hiring of senior faculty is a lot like middle school dating.
There's the "if I would, what would you answer?"
followed by the "well, if you were to ask, and I were to answer, what would you do?"
Delicate, tiresome, and occasionally effective.
Sometimes it becomes a non-terminating descending loop.
And sometimes it is a total headfake.
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:34 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 19, 2010
Category: astro
NASA's SDO destroys a Sundog on launch.
Cool video.
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:58 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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