Thursday assorted links
1. Shruti on Coltrane. 2. On the drop in Pisa scores. Quite exaggerated, it turns out. 3. Hope you all reoptimize your views accordingly, on AI agreements with China. 4.…
1. Shruti on Coltrane. 2. On the drop in Pisa scores. Quite exaggerated, it turns out. 3. Hope you all reoptimize your views accordingly, on AI agreements with China. 4.…
Last weekend the quiz master was taking in the sights, sounds and overwhelming history of Istanbul. Did that deter the writing of 15 questions on the week’s headlines, random pop…
1. An American at Brazil’s largest rodeo. 2. Ingeborg Bachmann centenary. 3. “Huawei Technologies Co. predicted on Wednesday that global computing demand will surge 100,000-fold by 2035, with AI agents…
1. On India’s new gdp statistics. 2. Reasons why robotics are hard. 3. On 20th century music. 4. Is the inflation picture shifting? (correct link) 5. The importance of nuclear…
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. 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. …
The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading… #Panic #Kyiv #prize #sheep #photos #day #Thursday
1. This guy is productive. Yes very productive. 2. “Mercor is building a network of experienced data scientists for potential future projects with leading AI research organizations.” And The New…
1. Write a paper in six days with only AIs, then record all of that and write a second paper about writing the first. 2. Saloni on the future of…
‘Extreme heat’ warning issued for parts of England on Thursday The Met Office has issued an amber heat warning for large parts of England on Thursday, covering areas including London,…