Rabu, 30 Juli 2008

Canada's Phillip's Curve looks like Canada?

John Palmer of EclectEcon believes that the result may be systematic as he has discovered that Canada's Phillip's Curve looks like Canada.

Source: http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2007/11/rorschach-econo.html

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Peter Goodman recently referred me to this paper in the Queen's University Working Paper Series. It shows a plot of Japan's Phillips Curve using data from 1980 through 2005. The researchers noticed that if you do a mirror image of the plot, it looks very much like the map of Japan.

I think the same thing is true for Canada. Here is a plot of the Canadian Phillips curve data from 1948 - 1996
http://www.eclectecon.com/posts/1193364742.shtml

difference between a mathematician and a physicist

Q: What's the difference between a mathematician and a physicist?
A: A mathematician thinks that two points are enough to define a strait line while a physicist wants more data.

Source: http://www.juliantrubin.com/physicsjokes.html

Enrico Fermi

Enrico Fermi, while studying in college, was bored by his math classes. He walked up to the professor and said, "My classes are too easy!"
The professor looked at him, and said, "Well, I'm sure you'll find this interesting."
Then the professor copied 9 problems from a book to a paper and gave the paper to Fermi. A month later, the professor ran into Fermi, "So how are you doing with the problems I gave you?"
"Oh, they are very hard. I only managed to solve 6 of them."
The professor was visibly shocked, "What! But those are unsolved problems!"

– Enrico Fermi, Phys Today, Oct 1994, pg80.

source: http://www.juliantrubin.com/physicsjokes.html