Wednesday assorted links
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. 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…
1. Palo Alto Networks (cybersecurity firm, check out YTD). 2. OAI doing math again. Quasi-Riemann! And just one metric of import. 3. The AI agents pitching literary magazines. 4. Redux…
1. What is the real rate of Chinese economic growth? 2. An Abundance caucus rolls out a bipartisan agenda. 3. Canada fell to 18th from 9th in global ranking of economic…
1. Jokic. And another angle. 2. Six questions for believers in AI consciousness. 3. Prediction markets do not seem to be politically biased. 4. “AI writing is absent before 2023,…