Original article is over at GuptaOption.com Severe Panflu Response Strategies Version 0.5A Point of contact Vinay Gupta hexayurt@gmail.com Abstract To support this volunteer effort in the public interest, please click here to donate to the Hexayurt Project by Paypal. Abstract Historical evidence shows that the 1918-1919 flu epidemic virus, H1N1, was extremely fatal (CFR > [...]
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Severe Panflu Response Strategies
by Vinay Gupta • March 3, 2008 • The Global Picture • 4 Comments
The Bank of the South – a Latin-American Development Bank
by Vinay Gupta • March 2, 2008 • The Global Picture • 1 Comment
The new bank will permit Ibero-America “to free ourselves of those chains which tie us to financial dependency,” Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa, one of the intellectual architects of the bank, told the press upon arriving in Buenos Aires today. “We have a common past. The time has come to seek a common destiny.” The bank [...]
Read more →Unauthoritarians and Authoritarians: Worlds of Difference
by Vinay Gupta • March 2, 2008 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments
Once in a while I find something that really affects me. The first big change in my thinking based on new data, not new models, was Rudy Rummel’s work on democide. Note: RWA is short for Right Wing Authoritarian, a group identified by prior psychological screening. Unauthoritarians and Authoritarians: Worlds of Difference By now you [...]
Read more →Infoglut and cognitive aesthetics
by Vinay Gupta • March 2, 2008 • Personal, The Global Picture • 1 Comment
It’s official: I’m not even able to keep up with the highlights of my blogs, never mind the real meaty content. And that’s having sacrificed pretty much all of my book time to blog time. Infoglut has overtaken me. What’s interesting is that I can’t really collaborate my way out of this. Smari, Marcin, David, [...]
Read more →Pathological incentives block local/organic farming
by Vinay Gupta • March 2, 2008 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/01/opinion/01hedin.html?em&ex=1204520400&en=1850d11a7a2d5f01&ei=5087%0A
Read more →Small is Profitable – 207 benefits of distributed resources
by Vinay Gupta • March 2, 2008 • Hexayurt, The Global Picture • 0 Comments
http://web.archive.org/web/20070506151357/www.smallisprofitable.org/207Benefits.html 207 Benefits of Distributed Resources 1 Distributed resources’ generally shorter construction period leaves less time for reality to diverge from expectations, thus reducing the probability and hence the financial risk of under- or overbuilding. 2 Distributed resources’ smaller unit size also reduces the consequences of such divergence and hence reduces its financial risk. 3 [...]
Read more →Respect for SQL as a programming model
by Vinay Gupta • March 1, 2008 • Science • 0 Comments
http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2008/02/b75fe4f240d3a3985e50f9bd23013579.en.html
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