It's been almost ten months since I uploaded any new work to Flickr, so I've added some new pictures, along with some write-ups. Here's the link to the first new one, and you can page forward from there (left arrow).... Related Stories Mystery Pic The Week of the Yellow Dandelion … | Continue reading

Teamwork has become more important in recent decades. We show that larger teams generate an unintended side effect: individuals who finish their PhD when the average team in their field is larger have worse career prospects. Our analysis combines data on career outcomes from the … | Continue reading

That is the (very good) title they gave my recent Bloomberg column. Should Europe have more air conditioning? Basically yes. Here is one excerpt: Some 90% of the US has air conditioning, according to one estimate, compared to only 19% for Europe. Worldwide, the US, China and Japa … | Continue reading

Adjusting for inflation, President Biden is one of the lowest-paid Presidents in American history. See the first and last figures in this analysis from 2012. This source’s figures are all in 2012 dollars, and there’s been 39% cumulative inflation since then, while the President’s … | Continue reading

The best way to be a photographer might be to not put "photography" first as your main interest. Better to have an ulterior purpose or outside motivation of some sort—to be interested in something, to have an aptitude that defines... Related Stories A Curious Thing About a Book I … | Continue reading

1. Live caption glasses let the deaf see conversations. And use ChatGPT to estimate true male height. 2. Claims about claims, this guy says it’s happening. 3. Karpathy on RLHF. 4. Pro-progress will win when it wins women. 5. How you would do in various Olympic sports, a ranking. … | Continue reading

In July 1946, 20-year-old Helen Hutchison walked into the Vanderbilt University prenatal clinic in Nashville, Tennessee. Helen found herself pregnant after her husband had returned from combat in World War II. The pregnancy, however, had not been easy. During her visit to the cli … | Continue reading

Some 40 per cent of the biggest US manufacturing investments announced in the first year of Joe Biden’s flagship industrial and climate policies have been delayed or paused, according to a Financial Times investigation. The US president’s Inflation Reduction Act and Chips and Sci … | Continue reading

1. August Strindberg, The People of Hemsö. Hardly anyone (non-Swedish?) reads this classic novel any more, but it holds up as one of the more compelling creations of its time. Direct and compelling. Swedish people on an island, but will this marriage work? Why has it so faded fro … | Continue reading

1. Simon Kuper on how to read a riot (FT). 2. “Did a furniture carver in Crouch End crack the code to early human writing?” (FT) 3. Mackenzie Hawkins on how the Chips Act is going (Bloomberg). 4. “Our findings indicate that a surviving [Chinese] revolutionary makes his birth coun … | Continue reading

For the United States, might it be a suburb of Columbus, Ohio? Or perhaps Knoxville, Tennessee, which is not too far from the country’s population center? Those locales are relatively generic, and not too much of any single region, or perhaps they straddle regions. They represent … | Continue reading

That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, and here is one excerpt: What do the numbers show? A new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City offers some important keys toward an answer. Start with the good news, or what appears to be the good news. Post-legalizati … | Continue reading

“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 wh … | Continue reading

This isn't a review. Just my chatty impression after trying a D-Lux 7 a few times. (Note the new Category, which you can see in the footer.) I took it to the local Art Fair weekend, where I met this... | Continue reading

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. … | Continue reading

Do you know about Reader View? I can only speak to the Firefox browser, which I've been using for years. In the address bar, over at the right, there's a small page icon: Click on it and it turns blue,... Related Stories VSL and ZV-E10II You May Pay Every Month Now The Upcoming P … | 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 … | 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 someti … | 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, … | Continue reading

Sorry for the dearth of content this week. I know you'd like something new every day. I had to spend the whole day yesterday doing house- and yardwork, cooking, shopping, bills, that sort of thing—the administrative duties of life. Usually... Related Stories Blog Note Anyone Have … | Continue reading

1. 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 rul … | 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, Y … | Continue reading

I 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, … | 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 … | Continue reading

Noah writes: I would love an update to this @tylercowen 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 cre … | Continue reading

1. Horpedahl reviews Haidt. 2. Paul Davidson, RIP. 3. A neoliberal case for Walz? (not necessarily endorsing, I do not yet know enough to say, but some contrarianism is called for here). And ChinaTalk, Tim Walz on China. 4. “Joss Naylor, the English King of Racing Up Mountains, D … | Continue reading

Maybe so: Using thousands of essays written by 11-year-olds in 1969, we construct an index measuring girls’ conformity to gender norms then prevalent in Britain. We link this index to outcomes over the life-cycle. Conditional on age-11 covariates, a one standard deviation increas … | Continue reading

I will not double indent: “Dear Tyler, I am a great fan. I am currently focused on Guinea (Conakry) and wondered what you might have posted about the country over the years. My search for “Guinea” in Marginal Revolution results in 50 posts: In 13 of them you are referring to “gui … | Continue reading

The president of Bangladesh on Tuesday appointed Muhammad Yunus, a pioneer in microfinance and a Nobel laureate, to oversee an interim government, accommodating demands by protesters and offering a reprieve for a country scarred by violence. The plans for a new government were an … | Continue reading

Here goes, enjoy! It is a very good one. Here are Rick Rubin playlists from other people, including Carlos Santana. The post Tyler Cowen world music playlist for Rick Rubin appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related Stories Tyler Cowen playlist for Rick Rubin The French Olymp … | Continue reading

1. Could Rome have had an Industrial Revolution? 2. Video on the yen carry trade. 3. How Harvard decided to tenure Jim Duesenberry. 4. More life on icy moons? Are you celebrating yet? 5. Canada is trying to tax its athletes more (NYT). 6. Russell Kaplan predictions for the future … | Continue reading

...or a photograph, or a painting, or indeed any kind of artwork: not all of what it offers is in it. Bear with me for a sec if you will. I recently attended a short talk about the 6th and... Related Stories In It For Love Good Pictures With Bad Cameras Dog Bites (OT) | Continue reading

Houston First, the city’s tourism department, revealed that it is paying $90,000 per year for three years — meaning the city will invest a whopping $270,000 to have the Michelin Guide here in Houston. Holly Clapham-Rosenow, Houston First’s chief marketing officer, says the city r … | Continue reading

This paper estimates the long-run impacts of banning affirmative action on men and women from under-represented minority (URM) racial and ethnic groups in the United States. Using data from the US Census and American Community Survey, we use a difference-in-differences framework … | Continue reading