Recently on EconTalk Russ Roberts talked with Duke University’s Mike Munger about permissionless innovation. The discussion focused on Mike’s recent essay on permissionless innovation, in whi...
https://knowledgeproblem.com/2017/11/21/complexity-permissionless-innovation-and-the-english-dance/
Michael Giberson Speed blogging a few stories: “The ’100 mpg prize’: An idea whose time has passed?” by Ken Paulman Earlier this week, California GOP Rep. Dan Lungren introduced a bill th...
https://knowledgeproblem.com/2012/02/03/the-100-mpg-prize-and-other-energy-stories/
Michael Giberson Michael Webber, mechanical engineer and Associate Director of the Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy at the University of Texas at Austin, provides a look ...
https://knowledgeproblem.com/2011/05/26/michael-webbers-energy-at-the-movies/
Michael Giberson I know that Netflix’s recommendation engine has some serious computation behind it, and it often offers up interesting and useful suggestions. But occasionally it puzzles me, ...
https://knowledgeproblem.com/2011/03/16/netflix-recommendations-deep-or-random/
Michael Giberson From the press release: NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mark Ruffalo and other Oscar nominees will wear a blue water droplet pin during Sunday night’s Academy Awards as a way of a...
Michael Giberson I like to watch good movies, and particularly for someone who now lives outside a major metropolitan area, Netflix has been unbelievably useful. Netflix really has been amazing...
Michael Giberson According to the Internet Movie Data Base, just one movie shows up when you search on keywords “Investigation/Price Gouging/Showdown/Violence” in the Romance genre: The Bos...
Michael Giberson Felix Salmon had an op-ed in New York Times on Hollywood’s opposition to the trading of future’s contracts based on box office receipts. Salmon said: In the 1950s, onion gr...
https://knowledgeproblem.com/2010/05/10/onions-and-motion-picture-box-office-receipts/
Michael Giberson As just noted, the CFTC has approved Media Derivatives request to establish Trend Exchange, a box office futures exchange. At Midas Oracle, Chris Masse reacts to the news by dr...
Michael Giberson Today the CFTC approved Media Derivatives Inc.’s request to create a futures exchange based on box office receipts. The exchange “is primarily focused on the development of...
https://knowledgeproblem.com/2010/04/16/cftc-approves-box-office-futures-market/