Thursday assorted links
1. Economics job market site. 2. Data on the flattening of consumer culture (NYT). One-sided, but still of interest. 3. A new and better measure of how much of educational…
1. Economics job market site. 2. Data on the flattening of consumer culture (NYT). One-sided, but still of interest. 3. A new and better measure of how much of educational…
1. “A whopping 79 NBA players are listed on today’s 2:30 PM injury report for tonight’s games. That’s roughly 15% of the entire league” This is just week one people! …
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. 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. 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…
Having reached 55 years around the sun, your quiz master was spoiled this week with ludicrously elaborate cocktails by his partner, and as a result vowed to deliver a grand,…
1. Cato’s Vision for Liberty award for 50k. 2. Gross output signals an economic surge (WSJ). 3. Echo, a new AI site to mimic the styles of particular writers or…
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…