NEW: Progressives have a birth rate problem For all the talk of a general fall in births, the drop is overwhelmingly driven by people on the left having fewer kids. By ceding the topic of family and children to the right, progressives risk ushering in a more conservative world.

After GDPR took effect, US venture funding in European startups dropped: 21% fewer deals, 13% less capital — about $1.6B a year. Data-heavy and first-time ventures were hit the hardest.

We’ve made enormous progress on cancer. To take just one example: Death rates from leukemia in young children have plummeted by 93% since 1950.

What’s the impact of an H1-B visa on firms? One extra high-skilled worker causes +23% in the probability of a successful IPO within five years!! (From 6.6% to 8.1%). These firms also get more external funding, are acquired more, and receive more patents and citations. The US

This could “Make Canada Great Again”. US companies will hire international students from US universities for roles in Canada, especially in the Vancouver, BC area. Same time zone. 2-hour flight from Silicon Valley.

~2012 must have been like a crazy time. Neural networks were considered nonsense by most people. Hinton, LeCun and Bengio were the amongst the very few people who kept it all alive for decades. Alex Krizhevsky, a mad coding genius and a socially aloof kid, shows up to Hinton's

This should be a poster in every classroom.

Huntington's disease was successfully treated for the first time with gene therapy. 75% reduction in symptoms & 113% protection of cognition. This is what a real medical breakthrough looks like.

🚨 BAD news for Medical AI models. MASSIVE revelations from this Microsoft paper. 🤯 Current medical AI models may look good on standard medical benchmarks but those scores do not mean the models can handle real medical reasoning. The key point is that many models pass tests

Excellent analysis on impact of AI on professional radiologists 10 years after the first AI model was released in that space. If this is going to be the pattern in other skill areas, maybe we don’t need to worry as much about AI related job losses as the doomsayers want us to

Air travel is a modern marvel we completely take for granted ‣ 45,000 daily flights in the US ‣ with only ~1% cancelled and ~0 accidents ‣ taking you about anywhere on the planet in <1 day

I worked in automotive manufacturing after undergrad and in glass mfg grad school. I got my first job in tech @ 30yo. I wouldn’t trade the intellectually stimulating tech career for hard labor.

Here's something fascinating happening in the apartment market right now. The cheapest, oldest apartments (Class C) are getting crushed right now. But ONLY in cities that just delivered tons of new apartments. Let me show you the numbers: Denver: Class C rents down 13.9%

I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. Lots of people have asked how I use Claude Code, so I wanted to show off my setup a bit. My setup might be surprisingly vanilla! Claude Code works great out of the box, so I personally don't customize it much. There is no one correct way to

NEW article by me! We are living through a golden age of vaccine development. worksinprogress.co/issue/the-gold… We can now visualize pathogens down to atoms; design vaccines in weeks; manufacture them in microbial factories; engineer them more precise than ever before. The future holds

A thorough deep dive into evolution and acceleration vaccine development. This thread will quite likely brighten your day.

NVIDIA CEO: "Every software company should get involved with Claude." Claude Code is the best tech invention of our generation.

David Ricardo showed in 1817 that if each country produces according to its comparative advantage, global output is maximized. Many analysts argue today that China's trade surplus reflects its comparative advantage in producing everything, and so its trade surplus is good for

US tech workers are automating themselves: The technology sector now reflects ~2.3% of total US employment, the lowest since early 2021. This percentage peaked around the ChatGPT launch in November 2022 and has fallen over the last 3 years. Over this period, employment in

I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. I wanted to quickly share a few tips for using Claude Code, sourced directly from the Claude Code team. The way the team uses Claude is different than how I use it. Remember: there is no one right way to use Claude Code -- everyones' setup is