Top ranked Leicester played runner-up Manchester City this morning, the dark horse may be crowned BPL champion at the end of this season. If so, it will be a shocking news given Leicester not owning super stars as far as I am aware of.
I skipped first half of the second match but caught the second half on big screen in our living room. Tottenham eventually scored a textbook goal.
It would be Chinese Lunar New Year's Eve on Sunday, I drove my parents to Ranch 99 Super Market to buy groceries while my son was sleeping at home. After coming back from Costco, I found my parents had finished shopping. Wow, they filled two carts today, which cost my credit card billed 450 bucks. So many shoppers were inside the markets, I could also tell so many cars in the parking lots when I was waiting my parents to come out. The shopping carts were all run out of.
When my dad and I loaded the groceries into the trunk, my mom heavily fell onto the cemented ground. She had very weak legs, so didn't stand firmly when turning around after chatting with someone. At her age of 79, it's very scary. However, she managed to only get minor muscle pain on her left arm.
Before going home to pick up my son for our routine lunch, I stopped by Licensing office to pick up the renewed tab for my caravan. Being asked whose name being on the register by the clerk, I just realized that my ex-wife's name was still listed on it as the primary. It had been since we bought it brand new in 2000. It's not a big deal, so I had never had it changed to my name exclusively.
Next, I stopped at eyecare store to pick up my son's contact lenses and just learned that our vision insurance carrier was changed, so I couldn't get 120 bucks benefits immediately. I couldn't remember I received any notification for this change at the beginning of the year, so had to find it out on Monday. I was told that I supposed to receive a new number from this new insurance company but I never got it. It's possible I threw the letter away as a junk mail.
My mom didn't want to go to the lunch due to the incident earlier, so I drove my dad and son to New Star Seafood Restaurant to have a delicious lunch to celebrate Chinese Lunar New Year in advance.
After the lunch, we dropped my son back to his dorm because he needed to finish heavy homework and prepare for an exam to be taken on Monday. In addition, he loved staying on campus because it was so convenient for him. He planned to live in this dorm through graduation scheduled in 2018.
Coming back home, I had been staying in bed until an hour ago. Watching politics on CNN, I learned GOP Debate to be held on ABC. Listening to the candidates' arguments, I figured GOP candidates fighting each other pretty harshly tonight. I wasn't interested in Trump's campaign but assumed him being set up to lose Iowa. I hoped him to win New Hampshire to teach all politicians a lesson.
$TWTR planned to implement algorithm as early as next week, which would manipulate the tweets. I want it to keep real time, otherwise it would lose its competitive advantage.
After pausing for almost two weeks due to the cold I caught during the weekends before the last, I read the Chapter 5 of Rodrik's Economics Rules - When Economists Go Wrong. Two classic errors economists generally make are:
- Errors of Omission: Author used 2008 Financial Crisis as an example to illustrate that economists were overconfident in the models of Supply and Demand, Efficient Market Hypothesis, ect but omitted the influences of Psychology and Sociology. This reminds me that I repeatedly debate with others in early 2000 that US economic system had been fully efficient, which could be adjusted by itself sufficiently. So I didn't believe there would be any significant recessions in future. My perception was misled by my error of omission then;
- Error of Commission: Author argued that economists attempted to apply relatively universal models to stimulate economy in Latin America, such as free market without government interventions, which didn't succeed. His conclusion is Model being selective. As I shared, I still believe a universal economics model to having all global issues cured being possible. Of course, a universal economics system has to be established all over the world. This won't happen any time soon. However, that selective models have specific issues resolved isn't the ultimate solution, otherwise Economics couldn't be defined as a complete subject of science.
Author uses "Hedgehogs" and "Foxes" to distinguish two types of Economists and advocates more Foxes to deal with specific economics issues. My goal is to discover a universal solution but it has to be based on a universal system. Am I a Hedgehog?
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