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Evan Miller's News (RSS feed)
Left: deliciousness. Photo credits: J. Hoffman Yip.
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Economics
- Deterministic Dynamic Programming: An Example With Cake (video)
- Golden Footballs and the Economics of Groupon
Mathy/Sciencey stuff
- "Abundance of pseudoknots: theory and observation" (pdf) (with Daniel Aalberts) - thermodynamics of RNA structures
- "Holt-Winters Forecasting Applied to Poisson Processes in Real-Time" (pdf) (undertaken while at IMVU.com) - monitoring business processes
- How Not To Sort By Average Rating (brief note)
- Rank Hotness With Newton's Law of Cooling (brief note)
History papers
- "The Very Long Run" (pdf) - Does culture aid or hinder economic development? Lessons from Robert Keayne, Jeffrey Skilling, and John D. Rockefeller
- "Radicals of the Industrial Revolution" (pdf) - Brief analysis of Eli Whitney, Nathan Appleton, and Alfred Houghton
Miscellaneous writing
- Is Groupon The Next Google?
- Are These Your Socks? I Have Your Panties - Craigslist MC
- Prose Appreciation Blog - brief analyses of short passages
- The Devil's Writing Admonitions - Words to use with care
- How I Read
- Evidence That No One Has Actually Read The Stimulus Bill
- A Plan for the Automotive Bailout Money
Maps & Apps
- Police Radio Chicago for iPhone/iPod Touch
- Police Radio DC for iPhone/iPod Touch
- Top Ten Facts About Economist Kevin M. Murphy
- Unofficial UofC Bus Map
- Hyde Park Coffee Map - now with beer and sandwiches
- Hyde Park Crime Counter - robberies, burglaries, and car thefts
Web software that I wrote
- Chicago Boss - a web MVC framework for Erlang
- Google Maps Extension - Google Maps for MediaWiki
- mod_zip - ZIP archiver for Nginx
Software references
- An Evening With Chicago Boss
- Emiller's Guide to Nginx Module Development
- Emiller's Advanced Topics In Nginx Module Development
- Write a Template Compiler for Erlang
How you might already know me
- Schools: McCallie '02, Williams '06
- Jobs (2006-2007): operations engineer at A9, software engineer at IMVU
- Now: Second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Economics at The University of Chicago
- Police Radio Chicago in the newspaper: “New Outlet for Scanner Buffs,” Chicago Tribune 10/9/09
