Thursday assorted links

1. An Indian village addicted to chess.

2. Follow-up post on overvalued bike lanes.

3. B. McCoy’s review of Washington, D.C.

4. The energy expansions of evolution (interesting, speculative, worth reading).

5. Sorting two tons of Lego bricks by machine learning.

6. Marc Andreessen evaluates people not tech (podcast with Ritholtz).