Results for “assorted links”

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1. These people think Montana is getting too crowded.

2. Pakistani geoengineering.

3. Do transparent placebos work?

4. Background on Venezuela vs. Guyana.

5. Social mobility, measured across the 50 states.  Utah and Minnesota take the top two spots.

1. How Bogotá urban planning succeeded (NYT).  Or did it succeed?  Relative to what?

2. Claremont Review of Books book recommendations for the year.

3. Why don’t we have more innovation in how we build homes? (NYT)

4. Housing supply doesn’t change much with political party.

5. Handel’s Messiah.

6. The beauties of sports data.

7. The Red Sea situation.

1. Did an alphabet make Korea more verbal?

2. Chances for life on Encedalus are getting better and better (NYT).

3. Christopher M. Schroeder 2023 book recommendations.

4. From the annals of Irish payments history: when the banks go on strike, the pubs step in.

5. The Argentina adjustment program.

1. 52 snippets from finance.

2. Paramilitary risk in the Balkans?

3. Why birds are smart.  And avian lookism, from humans.

4. The British Library, minus its digital infrastructure.

5. More chatting with whales.

1. Those new, super-duper specific service sector jobs, Federal Reserve edition.

2. The culture that is Korean email etiquette — “suffer a lot.”

3. The rise of the “extremely productive” researcher — a paper every five days? (Did they suffer a lot?)

4. Phil Magness appointed to a chair at the Independent Institute.

5. Preliminary results against lupus and other autoimmune diseases.

6. Henry Oliver reading suggestions.

7. Soumaya Keynes on British gains from YIMBY (FT).

1. “Opioid use disorder (OUD), a serious health burden worldwide, is associated with lower cognitive function.”

2. Is the 2017 corporate tax cut one of the most underrated in history?

3. What people searched for in 2023.

4. Jane Street graduate research fellowship.

5. Bill Benzon on economics GOAT.

6. Rembrandt prints on the rise.

7. New math knowledge from LLMs?

1. Robert Edgerton is underrated.

2. Artist Dana Schutz has been un-cancelled.  And Wisconsin DEI markets reestablished.

3. Profile of Byrne Hobart.

4. Doctor shortages don’t seem to affect subsequent mortality.

5. Branko Milanovic on how to treat books and authors.  And Branko’s book recommendations on capitalism.

6. How Israel ended its hyperinflation.

7. The great John Pocock has passed away.

8. Superalignment Fast Grants, from Open AI and Eric Schmidt.

1. Göran Söllscher plays The Long and Winding Road.

2. “Hallucination is not a bug, it is LLM’s greatest feature.”

3. On commercial zoning liberalization.

4. Why are so many U.S. pedestrian deaths happening at night? (NYT)  And provocative sex is back at the movies (NYT).

5. Maurice Obstfeld argues that low real interest rates will continue.

6. Why do some areas recover from deindustrialization and others not?

7. What is most watched on Netflix?

8. All sorts of Mercatus fellowships, new listing and applications open.

9. Okie-dokie people, Magnus basically vindicated.

1. Measuring the costs of the Jones Act.

2. Scott Sumner visits China.  And Scott on whether we will see a soft landing.

3. Model this.

4. Salim Furth on how AI will affect construction.

5. Electric vehicle miles traveled per 1,000 residents.

6. Did the PRC just annex a chunk of Bhutan?

1. Do fertility-boosting genes also shorten expected lifespan? (NYT)

2. An economic theory of the Manila to Mexico galleons and their shipwrecks.

3. How stable is the offense-defense balance in history?

4. Alas David Colander, economist at Middlebury, has passed away.

5. Quantum-computing approach uses single molecules as qubits for first time.

6. Is Northern Ireland a failed state?

1. Polysee: Irish YouTube videos about YIMBY, aesthetics, and economics.

2. Germany political map of the day.

3. Thwarted Wisconsin DEI markets in everything.

4. The EU AI regulatory statement (on first glance not as bad as many had expected?).

5. The NBA Play-In was in fact a big success.  Is the implication that other sports do not experiment enough with producing more fame/suspense at various margins?  Basketball games are simply a much better product when the players are trying their best.

6. Your grandfather’s ACLU is back…for one tweet at least.

7. New GiveDirectly results on lump sum transfers, from Kenya.

8. Ideas matter.

9. The Chinese are using water cannons at sea, against the Philippines.

1. A piece on Magill and free speech, written before the recent brouhaha.

2. “Today, Future House is announcing WikiCrow, our first automated system for synthesizing scientific knowledge.”

3. Erik Hoel on the marginal value of intelligence, and AI.  And with a clever restatement: “call it the supply paradox of AI: the easier it is to train an AI to do something, the less economically valuable that thing is”

4. And was some version of democratized AGI technology released yesterday?

5. Modeling “Assorted links.”

6. Apply for an ACX grant from Scott Alexander.

7. The extremely large telescope.

8. Google’s NotebookLM aims to be the ultimate writing assistant.

1. The culture that is British crunchy hedgehog food markets in everything.

2. Alex & Books summarizes some of my takes on reading (though he gets the number of books wrong).

3. “Karin Kneissl (Austrian ex-minister) danced with the Russian leader at her wedding. Now she’s building a new life in Russia.”

4. On the Gimbal incident.

5. Which construction tasks have become cheaper?

6. Poor German PISA results.

7. “Before she was Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay was involved in the pushing out a dean after students protested his legal representation of Harvey Weinstein.”  Link here.

1. Where is San Francisco housing policy headed?

2. Whole genome sequencing for embryos advances.

3. The Indian siblings taking the chess world by storm.

4. Catherine Project classics courses for next year.

5. Why is religious attendance linked to more anxiety in U.S. South Asians?

6. “We introduce a new approach to decode and interpret statutes and administrative documents employing Large Language Models (LLMs) for data collection and analysis that we call generative regulatory measurement. We use this tool to construct a detailed assessment of U.S. zoning regulations. We estimate the correlation of these housing regulations with housing costs and construction. Our work highlights the efficacy and reliability of LLMs in measuring and interpreting complex regulatory datasets.”  Link here.

1. The South Korean woman who adopted her best friend and thus created a family.

2. Who is the literary critic GOAT?

3. Are wealthier people returning to NYC or at least increasing in number?

4. Claims about the declining donor price of Ivy League admission.

5. What predicts risk-taking in research?

6. How many Koreans shoot basketball free throws, and NYT explanation.