Links & Stuff

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Cheap Talk: A blog about economics, politics and the random interests of Jeff Ely and Sandeep Baliga at Northwestern U.
A Fine Theorem: A blog by Kevin Bryan that summarizes recent as well as classic papers in economics.
The Economist

BaKoMa \(\sf\TeX\) Word: a true what-you-see-is-what-you-get \(\sf{\LaTeX}\) editor (kinda costly though)
- A review by Martin Osborne
L_YX: a FREE, easy-to-learn, what-you-see-is-what-you-mean, \(\sf{\LaTeX}\)-based document processor
ShareLaTeX: an online \(\sf{\LaTeX}\) editor. No local installation required; especially suitable for collaborative work.

Beamer: create presentation slides using \(\sf{\LaTeX}\)
- Amber Smith's quick introduction to Beamer
- A matrix of Beamer Themes/Colors
\(\sf{\LaTeX}\)-based CV and résumé templates by Ted Pavlic
MathJax: typeset math symbols beautifully on your webpage
- Like shit just got real: \(\big(\sqrt{(-shit)}\big)^2\)

Drawing Game Trees with TikZ: produce nice looking extensive form games in \(\sf{\LaTeX}\)
Implement a colored progress bar for Beamer's infolines theme (sample: PDF, tex)

My real techy obsession, on the other hand, is this (now upgraded to this).

PHD Comics: a comic strip series about the life (or the lack thereof) in grad school
- If you find these amusing, you should definitely consider applying for grad school.
Yoram Bauman: the world's first and only stand-up economist (and this is my favorite)
Trust Me, I'm an "Engineer": geek humor
- If you don't understand the difference between geeks and nerds, see this.
Pachebel's Canon on Matlab(!!!): download this m-file, run it on Matlab, and hear for yourself.
Check out my latest work on number theory (Don't miss the bibliography section, especially [8] - [10])
- How this paper was written.