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Here I found and interesting article about the coming of the new web generation: Web 3.0.

New horizons for OR-ers: making sense of the words, sentences, discourses!.

 I remember my first years at the University, trying to get a global idea of how was going to be my life as a professional after college, so I decided to take a look to some jokes. I’ve got a degree in economics, I can’t hide it, so it was easy to find loads of jokes (I specially liked Jokec at the time). Afterwards, when the virus of operations research got into my veins I tried to do the same (how am I going to spread the word if I can’t do it with a smile?); this wasn’t going to be an easy task though.

NO ONE HAS SPECIFIC JOKES ABOUT OR-ers!!!

You can find jokes about mathematicians, engineers, computer scientists, statisticians, and even economists , but there’s no "Unified Theory" for us when related to humor. Such it is the variety of sciences that are grouped into OR that we’ve lost our definition, so consider this as a proposal to create a repository of OR-ers jokes.

That’s an easy question?, so let’s found an easy answer.

Then: ARE YOU A PYTHAGOREAN OR-ER?, or you think maths won’t solve everything?; do you believe in the mighty power of maths?, or you think sometimes are flawed?; and so on, and on, and on…

Now, seriously: I don’t believe in extremes, neither believe you believe so.

Don’t remember now what I was looking for that I stopped by the side of this article:

Brans & Gallo (2007). "Ethics in OR/MS: past, present and future". Annals of Operations Research, 153, pp.165-178.

It addresses the tricky issue of ethics within the practice of OR and how it has evolved through the times, involving relationships between the OR-er, the clients, society, and the models (!!!). This made me think about politics; as an economist (as well as an OR-er; is this genetically possible?) I always think about the impact of any individually made decision on the whole economy (where’s politics then?), and how politics will affect the decision, the decision-maker, and the effects (from the one to the all). Then I remembered my last read book ("Tonterias Economicas", from Carlos Rodriguez Braun), and it made me think about the political spectrum. Please let me jot down a table barely adjusted from that one appearing in the Wikipedia, which will broke my motto "don’t talk about politics, you’ll always be wrong!".

PS If you were looking for an explanation about a mystical experience revealing the relationship between ethics and politics…, I’m very sorry.