Friday assorted links
1. Weird diets (NYT). 2. Is this what the Denisovans looked like? 3. Measuring bottlenecks for AI. 4. How is violence diffferent when women lead drug cartels? 5. “Israel’s economy…
1. Weird diets (NYT). 2. Is this what the Denisovans looked like? 3. Measuring bottlenecks for AI. 4. How is violence diffferent when women lead drug cartels? 5. “Israel’s economy…
‘Friday the 13th’ premiered in 1980 and starred Kevin Bacon, Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King and Bing Crosby’s son, Harry Peter Brouwer, Kevin Bacon, Mark Nelson, Laurie Bartram, Harry Crosby and…
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%…
The unending exhaustion of IP has forced us to ask questions we never really wanted or needed to ask. How did the Pink Ladies in Grease come to be the…
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. How rich was Anglo-Saxon England? 2. New game theory paper on AI races. 3. Scott Sumner movie reviews, please note he is always correct and thus the greatest film…
Morning opening: French protests continue to escalate with 400 schools closed on Friday Jakub Krupa Some 100 schools have been severely damaged during French high school protests that escalated this…
1. “We find a significant and highly robust empirical relationship between gender conservatism and protectionism. That relationship has been evident since 2008 and it decidedly is not a product of…
1. Gender differences in financial information processing. 2. Urban harassment of women in India. 3. The making of Roger Scruton? 4. Astra vs. Enigma. 5. Coetzee on genocide. 6. Dan…
1. Some Princeton philosophers are converting to Catholicism. 2. New Ada Palmer podcast. 3. Nice statement of how intelligence is overrated in the AI debates. 4. Joshua Rothman on the…