Saturday assorted links
1. GLM-5.3 understands Bob Lucas (and then some). It amuses me how many basic principles of economics are being rediscovered in these new contexts. 2. Most famous book tied to…
1. GLM-5.3 understands Bob Lucas (and then some). It amuses me how many basic principles of economics are being rediscovered in these new contexts. 2. Most famous book tied to…
1. Can Dybantsa (and others) turn around the Wizards? (NYT) 2. Claims about interpretability. I have to say I do not quite “get it”…? Here is some exposition. 3. “90%…
1. Claims about military satellites. 2. book talk. 3. AI misalignment in Sweden? 4. Will El Salvador grow? 5. AI, automation, and the Indian workforce. 6. How language models revise…
1. Planets more habitable than Earth? (NYT) 2. Those new service sector jobs: “Cambiar de vida: cómo irte a contar pingüinos en la Antártida por hasta 2500 euros al mes.”…
1. Jon Hartley on Bob Hall. And Chad Jones on Bob Hall. 2. Nicholas Decker on who might have won the prize. 3. Koyama tribute to Wickam. 4. A parallel…
1. The cloud and economic concentration, the endgame? 2. Industrial policy for drones? 3. Samir Varma on AI and Linnaeus. 4. Pan-African Review. 5. A worldview different from mine. 6.…
1. Was Leonardo da Vinci Jewish? 2. Twenty things to listen to in classical music. 3. Ezra Klein and Arvind Narayanan on AI as a normal technology (NYT). 4. Gans…
1. Chris Blattman’s practical AI for academics. 2. Platypus Economics on red diesel. 3. Those new service sector jobs, Indian cricket edition. 4. Will AI make us more technocratic? 5.…
1. Charles Kenny on foreign aid. 2. Rise and fall of the plasma screen. 3. France also has very high private debt. 4. Ross Douthat will do a weekly column…
1. War in space? 2. How the math breakthroughs might matter. 3. Short proof of quasi-Riemann. 4. App for finding art exhibitions. 5. Podcast on African economic growth. 6. New…