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• On 22 May 2012 in The Endless Crisis, billrose said:

  "Why Socialism?" by Albert Einstein, the the premier issue of "Monthly Review."

  http://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism

• On 22 May 2012 in The Endless Crisis, billrose said:

  Thanks for citing Monthly Review, an excellent source. Have you linked to "Why Socialism?" by Albert Einstein, from 1949?

• On 9 May 2012 in Why do home appraisers not use regression statistics to determine home values?, billrose said:

  Matt McKissock developed and marketed a multiple regression analysis software package for appraisers several years back. McKissock is one of the largest appraiser educators in the US. Matt is a chemical engineering graduate of Carnegie Mellon, one of the brightest people I've ever met. I took a couple of courses in multiple regression analysis. The software appears to work well, although I'm not sure if it has been widely adopted. Multiple regression analysis was made possible in everyday problem solving by the evolution of the superfast computers we take for granted today. Not so song ago, a simple query using multiple parameters would have taken hours to process. Multiple regression analysis is used to calculate spacecraft trajectories (literally rocket science!) and to solve complex scientific and engineering problems, so I don't see why it couldn't work in appraisal. Several years back, there was fear that such programs operated by clerks sitting in remote offices would displace appraisers.