Tamil songs by AM Raja
More songs from the 60s and 70s. These are by A M Raja. Can you guess which movie they are from? (Some films appear twice)
Don’t worry about the spelling. Just spell it like it sounds, and the box will turn green.
Google Notebook
Google Notebook released. Would be more useful when they
- Add offline functionality
- Reduce the accesses to the server
Books for download
Shared books at esnips.com. You can download the entire book. Authors include Jeffrey Archer, Fredrick Forsyth, Arthur Hailey, Erich Segal, Michael Crichton, J K Rowling, Terry Pratchett, etc.
Tamil Songs by P B Srinivas
Playback singers ruled the day in the 60s and 70s. At least, I remember songs more by the singers than the music directors.
Here is the background music from some songs from the 1960s and 1970s, sung by P B Srinivas. Can you guess which movie they are from?
Don’t worry about the spelling. Just spell it like it sounds, and the box will turn green.
Psychological framing in behavioral economics
People act on the spur of the moment, most of the time. So, as you can see from this example below, psychology can be more important than economics.
Senthil Mullainathan worked with a bank in South Africa that wanted to make more loans. A neoclassical economist would have offered simple counsel: lower the interest rate, and people will borrow more. Instead, the bank chose to investigate some contextual factors in the process of making its offer. It mailed letters to 70,000 previous borrowers saying, “Congratulations! You’re eligible for a special interest rate on a new loan.” But the interest rate was randomized on the letters: some got a low rate, others a high one. “It was done like a randomized clinical trial of a drug,” Mullainathan explains.
The bank also randomized several aspects of the letter. In one corner there was a photo-varied by gender and race-of a bank employee. Different types of tables, some simple, others complex, showed examples of loans. Some letters offered a chance to win a cell phone in a lottery if the customer came in to inquire about a loan. Some had deadlines. Randomizing these elements allowed Mullainathan to evaluate the effect of psychological factors as opposed to the things that economists care about, i.e., interest rates-and to quantify their effect on response in basis points.
“What we found stunned me,” he says. “We found that any one of these things had an effect equal to one to five percentage points of interest! A woman’s photo instead of a man’s increased demand among men by as much as dropping the interest rate five points!
More Google services
Google launches Google Co-op, which lets you search deep content (and share deep content), and Google Trends, which is like Google Zeitgeist for your searches.
10 ways to add variety to your digital photographs
10 ways to add variety to your digital photographs. Exposure bracketing sounds especially interesting.
Share your OPML
Share your OPML. Seems to be down, though.
Tamil Songs – 1975s
Ilayaraja scored Annakkili in 1975, and ruled Tamil film music for 15 years as isai gnaani. He took the mantle from MSV, who continued to score great melodies until 1980.
Here is the background music from some hit songs between 1975 – 1980. Can you guess which movie they are from? (Some films appear twice)
Don’t worry about the spelling. Just spell it like it sounds, and the box will turn green.