“Stephen is one of the most important and influential thinkers in the history of Vintage. No one else digs in to the details of cards or situations with his enthusiasm or talent.” –Randy Buehler, Magic: The Gathering Hall of Famer “A tour de force. In his best work yet, Menendian...
One interpretation of this non-obvious finding is that incentives are no magic bullet to motivate customers sharing more data with firms. And, even if customers disclose more data if firms incentivize the quantity (or “completeness”) of data disclosed by customers, these incentives might ...
In its most basic form, the turn four rule gives Wizards the opportunity to ban cards that win too fast in Modern. In practice, the rule and its application are much more muddled. Today, I'll try breaking down the turn four rule and its history in past banlist updates. I've touched ...
In other news I’m now officially a volunteer for the PDA Society. I’m very proud of this. It’s a pleasure to help them in any way I can. Also my Christmas cards have been selling very well, again it’s lovely to be able to help and so humbling that so many people want to ...
if the discs have more light-gathering to the edges of the disc, over-corrected spherical aberrations, you will get what is known as the “soap-bubble” bokeh effect. This bokeh resembles the aforementioned doughnut bokeh caused by mirror lenses, but it is created by aberrations, not by the...