Chilling Effects Team on May 13, 2015 [Chilling Effects is a project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.] “We at Chilling Effects are thrilled to share Reddit’s announcement that the site has begun sharing takedown notices with us! Following on the heels of the release of its first transparency report earlier this year,… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: May 2015
Wolfram Language Artificial Intelligence: The Image Identification Project
Stephen Wolfram Blog: “What is this a picture of?” Humans can usually answer such questions instantly, but in the past it’s always seemed out of reach for computers to do this. For nearly 40 years I’ve been sure computers would eventually get there—but I’ve wondered when. I’ve built systems that give computers all sorts of… Continue Reading
Evolving Credit and the U.S. Macroeconomy: 1920-2011
Amir-Ahmadi, Pooyan, Evolving Credit and the U.S. Macroeconomy: 1920-2011 (May 17, 2015). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2607191 “This paper studies evolving macroeconomic consequences of adverse credit spread shocks for the US economy over the past century. The key objective is to characterize and quantify how the credit transmission mechanism has changed in shaping the… Continue Reading
DOT announces Fiat Chrysler public hearing and issues special order
News release: “U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced that the Department’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) will hold a public hearing to determine whether automaker Fiat Chrysler has failed to remedy safety defects and issue required notices in 20 recalls. During the July 2 hearing, witnesses from NHTSA, the automaker, and the public… Continue Reading
Best Legal Departments 2015
Corporate Counsel – “Two legal departments are fully immersed in the digital age, two maintain a solid presence in the world of bricks and mortar. What’s more, one of them is a nonprofit, which renders many of the concerns of the other three irelevant. Examined from another angle, two of them are resolutely, explicitly multinational;… Continue Reading
Rethinking Financial Deepening: Stability and Growth in Emerging Markets
IMF – Rethinking Financial Deepening: Stability and Growth in Emerging Markets. May 4, 2015. “The global financial crisis experience shone a spotlight on the dangers of financial systems that have grown too big too fast. This note reexamines financial deepening, focusing on what emerging markets can learn from the advanced economy experience. It finds that gains… Continue Reading
Atmospheric changes through 2012 as shown by iteratively homogenized radiosonde temperature and wind data
Atmospheric changes through 2012 as shown by iteratively homogenized radiosonde temperature and wind data (IUKv2) Steven C Sherwood and Nidhi Nishant 2015 Environ. Res. Lett. 10 054007 “We present an updated version of the radiosonde dataset homogenized by Iterative Universal Kriging (IUKv2), now extended through February 2013, following the method used in the original version… Continue Reading
Most Agencies Falling Short on Mandate for Online Records
“Nearly 20 years after Congress passed the Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments (E-FOIA), only 40 percent of agencies have followed the law’s instruction for systematic posting of records released through FOIA in their electronic reading rooms, according to a new FOIA Audit released today by the National Security Archive at www.nsarchive.org to mark Sunshine… Continue Reading
Wham, Bam, Thank You Spam! Don’t Click on the Link!
Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation – Posted by Paul A. Ferrillo, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, May 17, 2015. “It seems that just like in old times (in cyberspace that means last year) the existence of “snake-oil” salesmen on the Internet is getting worse, not better. Rather than selling something… Continue Reading
Financial Assistance Measures in the Euro Area from 2008 to 2013
European Central Bank – Financial Assistance Measures in the Euro Area from 2008 to 2013: Statistical Framework and Fiscal Impact – April 2015. “This paper summarises the accounting principles and methodology used by statisticians within the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) to assess the impact on the government’s fiscal position of the assistance measures… Continue Reading
New on LLRX – IBM’s Watson is Now Data Mining TED Talks to Extract New Forms of Knowledge
Via LLRX.com – IBM’s Watson is Now Data Mining TED Talks to Extract New Forms of Knowledge – Alan Rothman’s commentary offers actionable information about a new technology from IBM called Watson that is a powerful tool for researchers whose work engages data mining, knowledge management and competitive intelligence. Rothman attended a recent presentation that… Continue Reading
New on LLRX – Book Review – “The Age of Cryptocurrency”
Via LLRX.com – Book Review – “The Age of Cryptocurrency” – Alan Rothman highlights the increasing impact of an online payment system that is immersed in finance and economics around the world – the expanding use of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. With actionable links to expert professional topical sources on these subjects, Alan’s article will bring… Continue Reading
