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The perfect beach — Agia Eleni, on Kefalonia (Greece).

Below was a tiny white beach at the bottom of a looming, shadowy mountain; I knew in an instant I had found what I wanted. My luck had returned.

Agia Eleni is, to my mind, the perfect beach. Unadvertised, hard to reach and utterly pristine, it has a 20-foot cliff from which you can dive, a second, smaller shore reachable only by wading or swimming, and schools of fish that follow you as you swim among its rocks and over areas of undulating vegetation. And the people who go there (and who revealed its name) are just the sort you hope to see at a Greek beach, the kind who inspire comparisons to the deities of antiquity.
–Matt Gross, “Found on Kefalonia, the Perfect Beach”, New York Times, July 5, 2006

Yesterday Redelmeier & Tibshirani showed us how operational researchers rule.

A conversation overhead by Alex Tabbarok, of Marginal Revolution:

Can I bring anything to the party tonight?

No thanks. I’m stopping by the store on the way home and there’s no point both of us shopping.

Ah, the Coase Theorem.

Yeah, since there are no women involved we can be efficient.