Saturday assorted links
1. Simon Winchester, RIP (NYT). 2. Pork roll vs. Taylor Ham, a NJ map. 3. Those new service sector jobs, Bradford edition. 4. “New assessment of the greatest of all…
1. Simon Winchester, RIP (NYT). 2. Pork roll vs. Taylor Ham, a NJ map. 3. Those new service sector jobs, Bradford edition. 4. “New assessment of the greatest of all…
1. What will happen with Texas data centers? And more on that. 2. What is the half life of a claim about LLMs? 3. YouTube video created by AI. Titled…
1. Economics job market site. 2. Data on the flattening of consumer culture (NYT). One-sided, but still of interest. 3. A new and better measure of how much of educational…
1. Important people in the AI world. 2. Ted Nordhaus on Bill Nordhaus. 3. “That universities facilitate broader political mobilization can explain why governments often seek to restrict student activism.”…
1. Jason Furman on AI and the CEA. 2. Matt Kahn uses Refine and gets results. 3. Cyril Hilsum, RIP (flat screen TV, NYT). 4. How much of the return…
1. Why is it now so common to be asked about your food allergies? (GPT Pro answer) 2. Training for alignment, applies principal-agent theory. 3. Do people offload empathy when…
1. Dwarkesh interviews Robert Caro (!). 2. New and pretty brutal results on CTE and football. 3. Interview with Dan Wang. 4. Updated version of the Saez-Zucman audit. Contestable and…
1. Jakob Davidsen, The Individual and the Entire Tissue (song cycle). It is good. 2. The Oilers Entertainment Group pushed prices too high and here is what happened. 3. The…
1. Organizing Intelligence. 2. World Bank African urbanization report. Building out African cities in a decent way could end up being the task of our coming era. 3. Summary of…
1. Which musical styles do smart people prefer? 2. U. of Austin job ads. 3. Walter Koenig, RIP (NYT). Chekov. 4. One take on the new computational result. And one…