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Current ArticlesThis feed's current articles are shown below. Subscribe for updates to all the content available in this feed, or click through here to see the original article. “We are increasing surveillance, in part to increase security, but also to prevent hired Swedish child soldiers who come to Copenhagen to carry out tasks in connection with gang conflicts,” he added. Hummelgaard revealed on Thursday that there had been 25 incidents since April where Danish criminal gangs had hired what he called “child...
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 Saturday assorted links
 2024-08-10 11:39 Eastern Daylight Time by Tyler Cowen
1. A weak LLM, but you can manipulate it in various ways. There will be more of this. 2. Economics Themed Comedy Show in NYC this Wednesday (8/14) at 7pm. 3. “We found that people with more consistent grocery shopping habits are more likely to pay their credit card bills on time. These are people who tend to shop on the same day of the... Continue reading »
When I travel abroad, I will often get recommendations of where to eat, what to do and what to read and watch from Sam Mendelsohn. Not just a few sentences, as if from a travel guide, but pages of unique and original material. I often have time to pick only one or two recommended items but invariably they are excellent. When I stayed in the ... Continue reading »
Of course the crypto prices fell first, over the weekend. I think Bitcoin fell by about 15 percent? You can think of crypto as a hedge against illiquidity, rather than against inflation, or against the decline of America, or whatever. There are not enough liquid assets! So sometimes solvent economies go tails up, because debtors do not have... Continue reading »
Post and selection done by Shruti Rajagopalan, no further indentation: Krishna Saproo is a BS-MS student at IISER Pune and founder of Maunitva Nirakaran. His research studies the impact of music on the cognitive behavioral system and explores the efficacy of Sangeetha Chikithsa, an ancient Indian therapeutic technique using music, in addressing... Continue reading »
Friday assorted links
2024-08-09 12:02 Eastern Daylight Time by Tyler Cowen1. One list of the most cited philosophers. 2. Politicized scientists lose credibility on Twitter. 3. Global polarization around social issues. 4. Cats grieve the death of other pets, including dogs. 5. Percentages of various national populations that speak English. 6. Think before you post. The post Friday assorted links appeared first on ... Continue reading »
Jake Seliger is Dead
2024-08-09 07:18 Eastern Daylight Time by Alex TabarrokWe all knew it was coming but it’s no less painful to learn that Jake Seliger has died. I never met Jake in person but we were pen pals? email pals? blog friends? for well over a decade. We shared an interest in speeding up drug research and development, including FDA deregulation, an interest which long preceded Jake’s cancer... Continue reading »
You will find it here. As I note on the list itself: “Here is an idiosyncratic list of some of my favorite classical performances. Some tasks drive you crazy if you think too long about them, and this is one of those — best that I did it quickly!” The post My “favorite classical performances” playlist for Rick Rubin... Continue reading »
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is part of the episode summary: Together Paul and Tyler explore whether psychologists understand day-to-day human behavior any better than normal folk, how babies can tell if you’re a jerk, at what age children have the capacity to believe in God, why the trend in religion is toward monotheism,...
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From Steve Landsburg in the WSJ: Here’s an economics brain teaser: Apples are provided by a competitive industry. Pears are provided by a monopolist. Coincidentally, they sell at the same price. You’re hungry and would be equally happy with an apple or a pear. If you care about conserving societal resources, which should you buy? Most of... Continue reading »
Thursday assorted links
2024-08-08 11:57 Eastern Daylight Time by Tyler Cowen1. Dynamic inconsistency in great apes. 2. New results against HIV. They seem pretty spectacular. 3. Feasibility of keeping Mars warm with nanoparticles. 4. At the bottom of his post, Noah responds on vibes. 5. David Wallace-Wells on Covid vs. bird flu (NYT). 6. Does the Sahm rule apply right now? (Bloomberg) The post Thursday assorted... Continue reading »
In 2000 the Clay Mathematics Institute offered a $1 million prize to anyone who could solve any of the seven Millennium Problems. Namely, the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, Hodge conjecture, Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness, P versus NP problem, Riemann hypothesis, Yang–Mills existence and mass gap, and the Poincaré... Continue reading »
Walking around Frankfurt
2024-08-08 02:22 Eastern Daylight Time by Tyler CowenI am here only briefly, and earlier I had visited the city perhaps seven or eight times, typically when passing through. But not within the last twenty years. My main impressions are thus: 1. The city itself has not radically changed in quite a while. Everything seemed familiar, and the types of stores were pretty familiar too. 2. The... Continue reading »
Just an interesting update: Chinese cars are rapidly replacing European & American cars in the city. An improvement in terms of comfort. Luxury cars still only European. Housing prices in Minsk are reaching highs not seen since 2016. Government bodies that deal with the sales of properties are booked out 2 weeks. (Not common) Subjectively,...
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Noah writes: I would love an update to this post, explaining why the vibes have seemingly shifted back!
I don’t think the vibes have shifted back at all, and here is my earlier post. To cite one key point, MZ referred to Trump being “bad ass,” and it still has not created anything close to a scandal. This... Continue reading »
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