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Who Wants to Be a Russian Billionaire? – Emerging Europe Real Time – WSJ

October 17, 2013

Who Wants to Be a Russian #Billionaire? Has great #stats:
~100K people worth >$50M. Half live in US.
http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2013/10/09/who-wants-to-be-a-russian-billionaire via @changeist

QT:”
Russia: 35% of the country’s entire wealth now in the hands of just 110 people….
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Credit Suisse estimates that worldwide there are 98,700 “ultra-high net worth individuals,” or people worth $50 million or more. Almost half of them live in the United States.
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Who Wants to Be a Russian Billionaire?
http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2013/10/09/who-wants-to-be-a-russian-billionaire

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NYer: The Order of Things… & illustrations of how it changes with different weightings

August 3, 2013

What College Rankings Really Tell Us : The New Yorker
THE ORDER OF THINGS
BY MALCOLM GLADWELL
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/14/110214fa_fact_gladwell

This is a very interesting article that illustrates the importance of considering the weighting various of features. It gives some very concrete examples of how one can get very different rankings by picking weights. All of this is in a sense obvious but it is nice to see spelled out with regard to school rankings.

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Web Exclusive: Quantum Weirdness? It’s All in Your Mind: Scientific American

June 15, 2013

QM QBism v Copenhagen. Is Bayesian Belief better explaining
Schrodinger’s Cat than superimposed dead & alive states?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=wave-function

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PLOS Medicine: Why Most Published Research Findings Are False

April 15, 2013

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124

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CiteSeerX — Aide-Memoire. High-Dimensional Data Analysis: The Curses and Blessings of Dimensionality

December 6, 2012

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.164.6687

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Congressional Proposal Could Create ‘Bubble’ in Tax Code – NYTimes.com

November 27, 2012

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/26/congressional-proposal-could-create-bubble-in-tax-code

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As Nation and Parties Change, Republicans Are at an Electoral College Disadvantage – NYTimes.com

November 8, 2012

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/08/as-nation-and-parties-change-republicans-are-at-an-electoral-college-disadvantage

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Income inequality: Who exactly are the 1%? | The Economist

January 25, 2012

Top pct cutoff is $380k income in ’08 (avg $1.2m) with ~$7m net worth in ’09. Half of the income from wages and a quarter from interest. http://www.economist.com/node/21543178

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