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	<title>Comments on: Nearest Book</title>
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	<description>Ό,τι του κατέβει του καθενός</description>
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		<title>By: Γιάννης</title>
		<link>http://blog.spitaki.org/2006/10/29/nearest-book/comment-page-1/#comment-17649</link>
		<dc:creator>Γιάννης</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 18:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;It was like the black seawater overtaking a crimson &lt;em&gt;Titanic&lt;/em&gt; stateroom, as recounted in one of Dad's favorite autobiographies of all time, the gripping eyewitness account &lt;em&gt;Black in My Mind, Yellow in My Legs&lt;/em&gt; (1943) by Herbert K. D. Lascowitz, who finally, in his ninety-seventh year, came clean about his Machiavellian behavior aboard the legendary ocean liner, admitting he strangled an unidentified woman, stripped her body, donned her clothes in order to pretend he was a woman with child, thereby securing a choice spot for himself on one of two remaining lifeboats. I tried to roll over and stand, but the carpet and the couch swerved upward and then, as shocking as lighning striking inches from my shoes, I was sick: cartoonishly sick all over the table and the carpet and the paisley couch by the fireplace and Jade's black leather Dior sandals, even on the coffee-table book, &lt;em&gt;Thank God for the Telephoto Lens: Backyard Photos of the Stars&lt;/em&gt; (Miller, 2002). There were also small but identifiable splatters on the cuffs of Nigel's pants.
They staret at me.
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&lt;em&gt;Special Topics In Calamity Physics&lt;/em&gt; , Marisha Pessl (Viking 2006)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>It was like the black seawater overtaking a crimson <em>Titanic</em> stateroom, as recounted in one of Dad&#8217;s favorite autobiographies of all time, the gripping eyewitness account <em>Black in My Mind, Yellow in My Legs</em> (1943) by Herbert K. D. Lascowitz, who finally, in his ninety-seventh year, came clean about his Machiavellian behavior aboard the legendary ocean liner, admitting he strangled an unidentified woman, stripped her body, donned her clothes in order to pretend he was a woman with child, thereby securing a choice spot for himself on one of two remaining lifeboats. I tried to roll over and stand, but the carpet and the couch swerved upward and then, as shocking as lighning striking inches from my shoes, I was sick: cartoonishly sick all over the table and the carpet and the paisley couch by the fireplace and Jade&#8217;s black leather Dior sandals, even on the coffee-table book, <em>Thank God for the Telephoto Lens: Backyard Photos of the Stars</em> (Miller, 2002). There were also small but identifiable splatters on the cuffs of Nigel&#8217;s pants.<br />
They staret at me.
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<p><em>Special Topics In Calamity Physics</em> , Marisha Pessl (Viking 2006)</p>
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		<title>By: Spot</title>
		<link>http://blog.spitaki.org/2006/10/29/nearest-book/comment-page-1/#comment-17619</link>
		<dc:creator>Spot</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 08:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;
During this meeting, the superior points out areas of the job at which the ratee is particularly accomplished and identifies other areas that need work. In the months that follow, each individual has an opportunity to develop and improve his or her skills before the final evaluation report. In the meantime, the organization benefits from improved productivity and open communication.
In complex organizations, it is important to &lt;em&gt;emphasize formal communication &lt;/em&gt; with structures designed to complement the chain of command.
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&lt;em&gt;Harvard Business Review&lt;/em&gt; on &lt;em&gt;Breakthrough Leadership&lt;/em&gt;</description>
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During this meeting, the superior points out areas of the job at which the ratee is particularly accomplished and identifies other areas that need work. In the months that follow, each individual has an opportunity to develop and improve his or her skills before the final evaluation report. In the meantime, the organization benefits from improved productivity and open communication.<br />
In complex organizations, it is important to <em>emphasize formal communication </em> with structures designed to complement the chain of command.
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<p><em>Harvard Business Review</em> on <em>Breakthrough Leadership</em></p>
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		<title>By: ekkeko</title>
		<link>http://blog.spitaki.org/2006/10/29/nearest-book/comment-page-1/#comment-17605</link>
		<dc:creator>ekkeko</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 01:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
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This might lead to a bimodal or trimodal posterior distribution to account for the two plausible scenarios. The prior distribution on the eight values y_j is still exchangeable, however, because you have no information telling which state corresponds to which index number. Finally, we tell you that the state not sampled (corresponding to y_8) was Nevada. Now, even before seeing the seven observed values, you cannot assign an exchangeable prior distribution to the set of eight divorce rates, since you have information that distinguished y_8 from the other seven numbers, here suspecting it to be larger than any of the others.
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&lt;em&gt;Gelman et al., Bayesian Data Analysis&lt;/em&gt;</description>
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This might lead to a bimodal or trimodal posterior distribution to account for the two plausible scenarios. The prior distribution on the eight values y_j is still exchangeable, however, because you have no information telling which state corresponds to which index number. Finally, we tell you that the state not sampled (corresponding to y_8) was Nevada. Now, even before seeing the seven observed values, you cannot assign an exchangeable prior distribution to the set of eight divorce rates, since you have information that distinguished y_8 from the other seven numbers, here suspecting it to be larger than any of the others.
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<p><em>Gelman et al., Bayesian Data Analysis</em></p>
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