Skip to content

  1. World 2, qui tacet 0

    The good (?) news is that Geoffrey and I won third place in the university category for the MAS competition for our paper on currency liberalization. The first and second places went to an MAS local scholar and a pair of postgrads (NUS MSc and NTU doctoral), so I think we did fairly well considering we’re both prefrosh. However, the relevant benchmark is Judith who did the same thing, except she won second place and did it at 19 – we should have done so much better. I feel like I’ve let both of us down.

    Continued…

    Posted in Economics, Essays & Writing, Singapore.

    2 comments

    By qui tacet – May 27, 2006

  2. NUS Bizad’s marketing strategy

    The National University of Singapore’s undergraduate business program (Bizad) is pursuing an aggressive advertising campaign. The first one I saw was the designer-jeans metaphor. The second was about A-level results – the message is that bizad is the school of choice for the very best. The third is about a foreign student who picks bizad over wharton/sloan (suspension of disbelief aside, note the small envelopes, and you know what that implies…)

    Continued…

    Posted in Business, Education, Singapore.

    5 comments

    By qui tacet – May 25, 2006

  3. Symmetrical affection

    Tyler Cowen’s symmetry thesis:

    A given person likes (loves) you as much as you like (love) him or her.

    Do I want to know how much you like me? It is simple. I imagine how much I like you. (If you do the same, are we circular? Or does some kind of fixed point theorem apply?)

    Perhaps we like other people for their intrinsic qualities less than we pretend. Mostly we like people for liking (loving) us.

    If the theory is correct, then not being loved is entirely my fault. I’m the selfish shortsighted one when the optimal strategy for the iterated prisoner’s dilemma is preemptive reciprocal altruism. This is actually quite compelling because it purportedly explains why efforts to improve my prospects have failed.

    Continued…

    Posted in Bildungsroman, Economics.

    Comments Off

    By qui tacet – May 23, 2006

  4. Review of Jyu Oh Sei / 獣王星

    This season’s anime lineup is actually quite wonderful (ouran high school host club, suzumiya haruhi, higurashi no naku koro ni) and completely make up for the ‘filler’ arcs in Naruto/Bleach – I hesitate to call them ‘fillers’ because they leave one hungry for the real thing. The best of this season is Jyu Oh Sei (planet of the beast king), an SF epic. The synopsis on wikipedia doesn’t do the series justice – it has production values that match last exile and ergo proxy (w/o using CG), and the epic scale to match them.

    Continued…

    Posted in Anime.

    2 comments

    By qui tacet – May 12, 2006