Monday assorted links
1. Why slow fields may determine the pace of discovery. 2. Touch screens on your jacket? 3. Astras performance on Bach bench. 4. More on regional productivity differences (and puzzles)…
1. Why slow fields may determine the pace of discovery. 2. Touch screens on your jacket? 3. Astras performance on Bach bench. 4. More on regional productivity differences (and puzzles)…
1. A safe harbor for open source? 2. False but interesting claims about economic growth. 3. “In a calibrated model of the welfare effects of the estimated impacts of the…
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. The cherries trade. 2. New YouTube channel for Indian architecture. 3. Where do Math Olympiad gold medal winners end up? “By total gold medal count, China is the clear…
1. The Romans and sex. 2. Apartments that expand at the touch of a button. 3. Has this guy composed more songs than anybody else? 4. Psychoanalyzing Elizabeth Holmes. 5.…
1. Freddie as AI skeptic (and I have given my predictions in fact). 2. Claims about Shakespeare and Marlowe. 3. How did “artificial intelligence” get its name? 4. How is…
1. More on Nigerian and African mega-cities, by the great David Pilling (FT). 2. Quantum gravity labor arbitrage. 3. New (non-AI) claims about consciousness. And more here. 4. “Stop Pink-Washing…
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…