VPN to Get on the Campus Network from Home

Get the VPN software from Technology Services.  I use Tunnel All to access the Library.  There are lots of good resources for you to get to from the convenience of where you live.  You don't have to be physically on campus to get access.

Temps and Contractors - Dual Labor Markets

This piece is about temps at Google.  Temp jobs are clearly less attractive to the employee, but people will take them when a permanent job is not available.  The question is - what jobs are permanent and what jobs are temp?  When the same job has both sorts of employees, it makes one scratch one's head and wonder why.  Is it market power for the firm in the labor market.  (This is sometimes called monopsony.)  Is the temp job an internship, but with a different label?  Or is there some other explanation?

How Do Experts Differ from Novices?

This volume, which came out 20 years ago, is quite interesting on both the question in the title and on what it means to really understand something that you've learned.  The answer is transfer - you can apply the concepts in a novel setting, unlike where you first learned the concept. We really should practice transfer a lot, but I'm afraid it doesn't happen that often in current undergraduate education.

Excel Homework

Each homework will have its own post with a link to the Excel file, perhaps some commentary on the purpose of the homework and the due date.  Questions about the homework can be made as comments to the post.