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It’s truly astonishing how fiscally irresponsible New York is. The state budget proposal calls for $254 billion in spending, which…
1. More uses for ChatGPT? 2. How the AI regulation moratorium fell apart (WSJ). 3. Good Noah Millman piece on…
If you want to destroy the ability of DeepSeek to answer a math question properly, just end the question with…
Many AI evaluations go out of their way to find hard problems. That makes sense because you can track progress…
Europe has more heat deaths per year than the United States loses to gun deaths. Here is coverage from o3.…
Every few years, I post on an excellent article on the American revolution by economic historian Jeff Hummel. It’s…
1. Ringo Starr profile (NYT). 2. SSC on using AI for research. 3. Michael Giberson on electricity deregulation. 4. Better…
Despite Ronald Coase’s many contributions to economics, he is most famous for the co-called Coase Theorem, which is just one…
Amazon now employs almost as many robots as humans leading to huge productivity improvements. From the second graph, “end-to-end” packages…
The new Cercas book is El loco de Dios en el fin del mundo. That title translates roughly as “The…