The wrong stuff

The Wrong Stuff? Creative Class Theory and Economic Performance in UK Cities

The soft stuff is really the hard stuff.

Complex pieces of machinery require regular systematic preventative maintenance to sustain their high-performance standards. The same is true with the complex human "machinery" that runs medical group practices. The behaviors, skills, and attitudes that are often referred to as the "soft 'touchy-feely' stuff" are not a luxury. Quite the contrary--they are essential to achieving and maintaining ...

The right stuff

Everyone seems to think they can tell the few good scientists from the mass of white-coated wannabes. We all have our own favourites, but generally speaking, people agree that a few scientists have got what it takes to make a Nobel laureate, while the majority just haven’t. Having what it takes doesn’t necessarily correlate with success. Another popular absolute is that some successful people a...

Looking at the Hard Stuff

Determining how computer graphics will evolve requires a good understanding of both software and hardware advances. As a software person, I tend to pay less attention to hardware than I should. I’ve fi nally realized that all the software I’ve written over the past few decades relies on hardware. And how my software behaves changes dramatically when my hardware changes. This issue’s column is d...

Decay stuff

Sections 3, 4 and 5 give results under Lp assumptions without any further assumptions on the decay rates. Section 3 deals with the case r ∈ Lp, p > 2. Section 4 generalises to p > 1. Section 5 covers the case p = 1 for mean zero observables. There is still the general p = 1 case to consider! The optimal result in the stretched exponential case is given in Section 6. Section 7 gives an alternati...