Fuzzy Math Returns October 7, 2001. fuzzy math Returns. By PAUL KRUGMAN. ostterror nervesaside, what mainly ails the US economy is too much of a good thing. http://www.mines.edu/students/a/alombard/Krugman_Fuzzymath.htm
Extractions: October 7, 2001 By PAUL KRUGMAN ost-terror nerves aside, what mainly ails the U.S. economy is too much of a good thing. During the bubble years businesses overspent on capital equipment; the resulting overhang of excess capacity is a drag on investment, and hence a drag on the economy as a whole. In time this overhang will be worked off. Meanwhile, economic policy should encourage other spending to offset the temporary slump in business investment. Low interest rates, which promote spending on housing and other durable goods, are the main answer. But it seems inevitable that there will also be a fiscal stimulus package. That package should include only measures that really will promote spending now, when the economy needs it. It shouldn't include anything that worsens the long-run budget position more than is necessary, or anything that looks like "hitchhiking," exploiting the short-run difficulties of the economy to pursue unrelated long-run goals. Unfortunately, the Bush administration has just taken a big step away from those principles. Until late last week it looked as if much of any stimulus package would consist of increased government spending to rebuild New York, to pay for military operations and to provide unemployment benefits. This would put money into the economy in a clearly temporary way.
Extractions: With High Leverage by Scott Thompson about the author We need to take both a deeper and longer view and ask, Where will an approach to educational accountability that is tied to annual standardized testing take us? One powerful set of lenses for gaining a deeper perspective on these issues is provided by systems thinking. This way of thinking and taking action has been evolving over many decades, but it reached its widest audience with the 1990 publication of The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge. Shifting the Burden Among the systems thinking tools are systems archetypes, which are patterns of counterproductive organizational behavior that are repeated in diverse contexts. Because these patterns play out under the surface, they are seldom recognized, which essentially dooms people and organizations to blindly repeat them. Systems theorists have identified at least a dozen systems archetypes. Daniel Kim, publisher of The Systems Thinker, uses an aspect of the Helen Keller story to illustrate this archetype.
Saturday Night You: George Dubya's Fuzzy Math George Dubya's fuzzy math written by Duane Bertelsen SOUND AUTOMOBILE ENGINEGEORGE BUSH , DICK CHENEY, AND CONDELEEZA RICE ARE TRAVELING TOGETHER. http://snlyou.jt.org/archives/01ytarareid/bush.phtml
Fuzzy Math fuzzy math By Mark Boslet and Jason Krause Issue Date Feb 26 2001 Critical Pathstumbled on a problem that has plagued the software industry Accounting http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,22293,00.html
Extractions: The troubles that have beset e-mail software maker Critical Path CPTH ) in the past few weeks sound familiar. The accounting irregularities that drove CEO Doug Hickey and President David Thatcher to resign two weeks ago have become distressingly common in the software business. They stem from the way their products are bought and sold, as well as accounting rules that have become more restrictive. And then there's the occasional instance of outright fraud. Database firms Oracle ORCL ) and Informix IFMX ) have each struggled with this problem in the past decade, while smaller software companies such as Legato and MicroStrategy MSTR The difficulty - and the temptation to fudge the numbers - derives from the nature of software. First, software is much easier to deliver than, say, truck engines; a single keystroke can send programs anywhere in the world.
Diversion Structure Use: A Lesson In Fuzzy Math Diversion Structure Use A lesson in fuzzy math By Austin Meyermann Diversionstructures play an important role in storm drain design. http://www.baysaver.com/newsarticles/diversionstructurepr.html
Extractions: By Austin Meyermann Diversion structures play an important role in storm drain design. They are essential to prevent upstream flooding, resuspension of pollutants, and system blowouts. It is by the very nature of stormwater that these structures are a necessary component for some designs. That being said, diversion structures are increasing in number due to the use of many proprietary treatment systems now seen on stormwater plans. The use of diversion structures in this regard should be viewed with both caution and consideration. What differentiates a proprietary technology from a commodity product? It is that the proprietary technology possesses some patented, and therefore novel, aspect that a comparable commodity product does not. It is hoped that this novel component makes the proprietary technology superior in design. This is the pitch behind many of the new stormwater treatment technologies. Whether it is a screen, a swirl, or a baffle, the manufacturers of these technologies claim that their system does what no previous system could, due to its novel nature. Some of these claims are true and some of these claims are false. One aspect that is the same about all these proprietary technologies is that the customer has to pay for the intellectual properties associated with the system. You may be asking yourself what this has to do with diversion structures. Answer: the proprietary technology has a high dollar value per unit of water treated, less water will be treated by the system than by a commodity product of the same price. Due to the cost of proprietary treatment, upstream diversion structures are used so that a portion of influent flows can be treated while the remaining flow can be bypassed, making the proprietary treatment technology price competitive against other products.
Fuzzy Math Fuels Criticism Of Bush Benefits Plan fuzzy math Fuels Criticism Of Bush Benefits Plan. Sounds like one of the candidate'sSocial Security proposals is suffering from a bad case of fuzzy math. http://www.socialsecurity.org/pubs/articles/art-tanner001026.html
Modern Humorist Either try to remember, or take this quiz to find out. You will be graded usingfuzzy math, so just give the best answer, not necessarily the correct one. http://modernhumorist.com/mh/0010/debates/
Extractions: Entire Document: The Governors Education Budget: More Deficit, Fuzzy Math, More Bureaucracy (pdf) Prepared by the Senate Republican Fiscal Office The Governor proposes funding K-14 education under Prop. 98 at the minimum level permitted by law. Because a primary assumption underlying the Administrations proposed Prop. 98 funding level may be more bleak than is actually the case, the Prop. 98 guarantee is likely to increase at the May Revision, creating perhaps as much as $1 billion in additional pressure on the General Fund.
Bush - Gore Debate: Money - Taxes And The Surplus referred to Bush's plan as a tax cut for the wealthy. Bush repeatedly accusedGore of basing that criticism on phony numbers and Washingtonfuzzy math. . http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa100600a.htm
Extractions: Wednesday Mar. 20, 2002 The past is getting closer. For a couple of weeks in September, it seemed that the timbre of American politics had changed drastically. However, the surreal bipartisanship brought on by Sept.11 was not an enduring phenomenon; six months later, it has already faded to a distant memory. In its place, we have experienced a return to the issues that defined the 2000 presidential race - tax cuts, debt, Supreme Court nominations and Medicare. The problem is, election-year rhetoric took its toll the first time around, and this time the issues feel a little stale. It's too bad; there's a reason they were such prominent issues during the campaigns. Though everyone got tired of hearing Al Gore whine about "the top 1 percent," he was right. Just look at the tax cuts in order this year - they are undeniably biased toward the economic elite. Look at the scary judicial nominee - Charles W. Pickering - who was barely rejected last week by the Senate Judicial committee. The election-year issue that has had the greatest relevance to post-Sept. 11 politics, however, is one that was only implied during the debates - deficit spending. At the outset of his campaign, Bush claimed that his proposed budget would run a deficit only if something unexpected transpired - as if that could happen in four years as leader of the free world - something like a major catastrophe, war or recession. As fate would have it, all three occurred.
Thomas Sowell Mr. Sowell's Fuzzy Math: Nantucket Campfire Mr. Sowell's fuzzy math Thomas Sowell Nantucket Campfire Thomas Sowell OtherNantucket Live Chats If ye would like to moderate the Thomas Sowell Nantucket http://businessphilosophy.com/business/ThomasSowellbusiness/cas/4.html
Is This Math Fuzzy? fuzzy math programs are those that emphasize process over content (and evencorrect answers), and are deficient in mathemat ical breadth and depth. http://edreform.com/parentpower/01august/fuzzymath.html
Extractions: Previous: How to advocate for your child Next: Understanding your child's mathematic education Home Library Join Parent Power! Helping You Make Sense of Schooling Today Managing Editor Caralee Adams Contributing Editors Onnie Shekerjian Paul Clopton Suite 204 parentpower@edreform.com www.edreform.com Published eight times a year by The Center for Education Reform Bring Parent Power! e-mail subscription www.edreform.com/ parentpower/signup.html F uzzy Math is one of the phrases used to refer to the many newer mathematics programs that are designed around current fads in mathematics educa- tion and often are inadequate word fuzzy is used in the sense of warm and fuzzy or fuzzy thinking, and does not refer to advanced topics like fuzzy logic. Fuzzy Math programs are those that emphasize process over content (and even correct answers), and are deficient in mathemat- ical breadth and depth. Fuzzy Math takes many forms, but here are some of the varieties. Publishers are selling instructional materials, including overheads, soft- ware, dice, spinners, and blocks instead of text- books, which have clear
[Cyberia-OT] Gore Pulls Ahead In Florida Recount - Fuzzy Math? CyberiaOT Gore pulls ahead in Florida recount - fuzzy math? DavidBolduc bolduc@smccollough.com Thu, 4 Jan 2001 163844 -0600 http://www.lawlists.net/pipermail/cyberia-ot/2001-January/002082.html
Extractions: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 16:38:44 -0600 I took the liberty of contacting the author of the story, and the numbers in the original article (which still seems to be the only one on the site, despite what the author says below) are a bit of a hash. (Maybe this was a headline in search of an article.) The exchange is reproduced below. From what I can tell from what he's told me, here's the story: - The "hanging chad" total in the figures is actual the "pinprick" figure. - There's no gain on either side from hanging chads. - Gore has an advantage of 28 "pinpricks". - Bush has an advantage of 5 in clear punches. - Gore has an advantage of 97 dimples. So the net gain or loss depends on what you think ought to get counted. (Wasn't this what was suggested as the problem with this "recount"?) Most pessimistic count for Gore: -5 Conservative count (no dimples) for Gore: +23 Most optimistic count for Gore: +120 **************** > the hanging chad totals are 81 a piece. Bush picked up 5 votes among
WirelessWeek.com LONDONWhen it comes to new cellular subscribers in the United Kingdom, there'sno fuzzy math to complain about.Britain touches on 58 percent p. http://www.wirelessweek.com/esec/Article_30783.htm
Extractions: Britain touches on 58 percent penetration for the first time, with more than 34 million cellular users. Over the July-to-September quarter, 100,000 customers were added each week, or 10 new customers every minute of the day. The quarterly subscriber figuresthe benchmark for operators and analystsexceeded expectations in a traditionally quiet quarter. vis-à-vis profitability and performance, the stock market loves the customer number ratios. The two DCS 1800 operators, Orange and One 2 One, are catching up with their 900 MHz GSM rivals. So much so, in fact, that despite a seven-year lead in business operations, Orange looks set to trump Cellnet in the next quarter, shoving the BT wireless subsidiary into third place.
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Weldon's Home Page Research focused on optimization, differential algebra equations, geographic information systems, biomedicine, environment applications and fuzzy industrial scheduling. University of Colorado at Denver. Page includes biography, hobbies, curriculum vitae, and publications. http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~wlodwick/
The MathWorks - Fuzzy Logic Toolbox a leading developer and supplier of technical computing software (MATLAB), incl. the fuzzy Logic Toolbox, among other math products. http://www.mathworks.com/products/fuzzylogic/
Extractions: Design and simulate systems based on fuzzy logic This toolbox extends the MATLAB environment to support the design of fuzzy logic based systems. The Fuzzy Logic Toolbox provides a graphical user interface to guide you through the steps of fuzzy design. It also includes functions for the latest fuzzy logic methods, such as fuzzy clustering and adaptive neuro-fuzzy learning.
