Here's my conversation with Edward Gibson (Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT), a linguist and psychologist at MIT, heading the MIT Language Lab. We talk all about the human language: syntax, grammar, structure, theories of language, evolution of language, how it reflects culture, and of course LLMs,…

China’s thirsty data centres, AI industy could use more water than size of South Korea’s population by 2030
Hong Kong think tank says annual water use by Chinese data facilities – almost half of which are in dry regions – could more than double by 2030
scmp.com/news/china/sci…

🚨Are you interested in #geospatial analysis in #Economics ? Join me in June (17-21) for the Barcelona School of Economics #SummerSchool on 'Geospatial Tools for Development'.👉I will teach virtually how to conduct causal spatial analysis in #Development and beyond! INFO: ow.ly/EzCk50Rh0cl

China’s semiconductor output jumps 40% in first quarter amid growing dominance in legacy chips | South China Morning Post scmp.com/tech/tech-war/…

We promise this is not a person in a bodysuit. bit.ly/3w5XRvH

Graphite: natural v synthetic

China’s dominance of the graphite market is unparalleled in the critical minerals space: upstream mining, midstream refining, downstream production

Stats: @Benchmarkmin

Dai New Year in Xishuangbanna.😍😍😍
满船清梦压星河

Dziś mieliśmy przyjemność porozmawiać z prof. Markiem Hilbornem na Defence Academy of the United Kingdom Defence Academy, na temat rywalizacji mocarstw w przestrzeni kosmicznej. Spotkanie powiązane jest z projektem, w który zaangażowany jest Układ Sił, o której opowiemy więcej już…

Great to see an updated version of the new textbook 'Macroeconomics: A comprehensive textbook for first-year Ph.D. courses in macroeconomics'

by Marina Azzimonti P. Krusell, A. McKay, and T. Mukoyama (together with co-authors)

phdmacrobook.org

Jest tyle narzędzi AI, że nie wiesz za co się zabrać?

Stworzyłem zorganizowaną i skategoryzowaną Bibliotekę Narzędzi AI, w której znajdują się tylko najlepsze i sprawdzone narzędzia.

Więcej info 👇🏻🧵

This came from space ☄️ A metallic meteorite made up of iron-nickel and olivine crystals

🛰 Najnowocześniejszy i największy polski satelita wystartuje 🚀 w połowie roku.
🎙 Opowie o tym dr Piotr Piotr (dyrektor inżynierii w Creotech Instruments SA.).
📻 Zapraszam na audycję #Patronautyka w Radio 357 od 13:00 do 15:00!

Co-presidents of ASML, the ‘yin and yang duo’, since 2013, Martin van den Brink and Peter Wennink are stepping down. Great profile of the key executives by marc hijink 🎱nrc for NRC. In Dutch, but machine translation should do the trick.

nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/04…

LME bans Russian-origin metal after UK, US impose new sanctions bit.ly/4aUulb2

Where Stalin met Lenin.
Cracow 1912

Peak coal? Hmm, how to put it: no.

The world added last year ~60 GW of coal-fired power capacity, the most since 2016 (China, that green champion, accounted for more than ⅔ of the increase), according to a new report.

#CoalTwitter #energytransition
globalenergymonitor.org/report/boom-an…

Via George Magnus, a new Kiel institute study on China's industrial subsidies.

Highlights that most subsidies come from cheap funding (below market debt and equity) not direct government spending

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I'm really excited to annouce I'll be hosting the new Fastmarkets' new critical minerals & battery raw materials podcast, Fast Forward. Sign up and watch the trailer here. Episode 1 coming soon on Spotify/Apple/wherever you get your podcasts! fastmarkets.com/insights/fast-…

Heck of a graph in FT today: