youre only seeing the times it has thousands of likes

The real answer is that it’s a space-filling curve, which is the natural consequence of any surface of dimension n growing within a topological space of higher dimension. This, specifically, occurs because a 2-manifold (the cortex or cabbage sheaves) begins to grow within a

Thanks to Kevin Frazier and scaling_laws for this wonderful conversation. I always enjoy the opportunity to be a contrarian wet blanket curmudgeon in public :)

This ProMarket piece rests on the premise that concentrated markets undermine democracy due to the political influence of large firms. This is a standard assumption of antitrust populism, but there are significant problems with it. A short threat. 1/n

there is a NES emulator that simulates the behavior of individual transistors of the semiconductors not cycle level, not even gate level, transistor level

The other day a student asked me about the prevalence of insider trading in prediction markets. I now have an answer.

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Mokyr

Wow, incredible! Mokyr is awesome - he’s the father of the “ideas school” of the Industrial Revolution, which is one of the inspirations for Works in Progress, and the author of the best book I’ve read on the Irish Famine. So exciting.

beyond true. to celebrate these three who expanded on schumpeter’s profound optimism. here, my book of the year ages ago. thomas mccraw’s gift.

I’ve decided not to post my annual “women on the Econ job market” thread this year. Social media has splintered too much, and now that I’ve left academia I’m focused on other priorities. I hope someone else picks it up! It was super useful to have a reason to comb through the

Somewhere in BBC Scotland: "Did you know that an AI data centre uses 27 million bottles of water a year?" "What size of bottle?" "That doesn't matter. 27 million sounds like a lot doesn't it?" "I guess so, but how does that compare with residential usage? Or waste by leaks? Or

This is so dumb. A *decade* after the government broke up ATT a single line of code still brought down all voice communications networks (5 years before the internet). Then again in 1998, almost two decades later the same thing. How much smaller should AT&T have been broken up?

My review of Dan Wang 's excellent *Breakneck* is not like anyone else's review of *Breakneck.* hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/dan-wangs-br…

Given the extent to which Lina's FTC both retconned and memory-holed past FTC materials, her post truly is disturbing and bizarre. For the record, when anyone in leadership does this, it undermines credibility and trust and comes at the expense of accumulated knowledge.

I don’t see a problem here. It sounds like the date was a resounding success!

Big victory for Milei’s party in Argentina’s mid-term elections where it’s gotten about 41% of the votes. The market reforms will continue. lanacion.com.ar/politica/elecc…

Excellent job Lina Khan, you successfully destroyed iRobot, a company that Amazon wanted to purchase, but you blocked it for fear of a creating some kind of robot vacuum monopoly. Now which companies are winning? Well of course Roborock, a Chinese robot vacuum company that's

Harvard reports that it is “failing to perform the key functions of grading.” Its grading practices are “damaging the academic culture of the College.” “Faculty newly arrived at Harvard are surprised at how leniently our courses are graded.” Students say academics feel “fake.”

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“Tech journalism that isn't reflexively anti-tech” is a great emerging category Ashlee Vance / Core Memory, Arena Magazine, TBPN, also Cool Tech News forthcoming from Eoghan McCabe / Patrick McGuire … what else?