Saturday assorted links – Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Joaquin Rodrigo’s Toccata. Rodrigo by the way was blind, 2. China word of the day. 3. “People Keep Sneaking Into New York City Sewers. No One Knows Why.” (NYT)…
1. Joaquin Rodrigo’s Toccata. Rodrigo by the way was blind, 2. China word of the day. 3. “People Keep Sneaking Into New York City Sewers. No One Knows Why.” (NYT)…
1. “After work, we’ll have each other.” 2. Gloria Steinem, RIP (NYT). 3. Henry Oliver on Finding Emily. 4. Solve for the Russian family squabble equilibrium (short video). 5. New…
1. “Some crazy stats from this new JEL paper: – IV est. average 3–10x OLS (meta analysis) – Sign. results 30x more likely to be published in experimental econ (Andrews…
1. Ruxandra on AI and the remaining roles for humans. 2. The buildings of university architecture departments. Most of them I like. 3. Dean Ball on the coming of untethered…
1. The AI market is still growing rapidly. And “In less than 200 days after launch, ChatGPT Ads has reached $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate.” 2. On Warsh.…
1. Prices, prices, prices: “Again I am asking how the following two things can be true at the same time: 1) we’re all massively compute limited so inferences & GPU…
1. NYT covers Maria Edgeworth. 2. A calmer look at the Hugging Face incident. And from Ciaran Martin in The Economist. And Elie. And Jacob Bruggeman. 3. Chandhana visits Egypt.…
1. Roger Myerson now has a Substack. 2. The future of higher education? 3. Another look at data centers in space. 4. “The Global Economics Lab is a non-partisan organization…
1. “With homicides up 50% since 2020—putting the country’s murder rate on par with Mexico’s—Costa Rican President Laura Fernández and her ruling party are blaming the independent judiciary.” (WSJ) 2.…
1. Data centers in space? Good Anton Leicht essay on the different considerations in the political economy. 2. More whales and Dr. Doolittle stuff. 3. Rohit on the AI hacks. …