Beautiful. One of the best political speeches in a long time. Japanese PM Kishida addresses US Congress.
asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Inter…

In the video (in French) Yann LeCun channels Polanyi ('we can know more than we can tell') arguing , with a nice visual example, that text captures a limited sliver of what we know, and hence (text trained ) LLMs cannot rival human intelligence.

Lección de economía para el gobierno de España: La oferta de vivienda en alquiler se duplicó y el precio del alquiler BAJÓ un 30% en términos reales tras eliminar el gobierno de Argentina la ley de control de alquileres que llevó a muchos propietarios a retirar sus viviendas.…

He escrito sobre las formas de manipulación presentes en parte de la cobertura de RTVE sobre la invasión rusa de Ucrania.

Una cobertura que bien podría estar firmada por un reportero de Russia Today.

1/7
elespanol.com/opinion/tribun…

That’s right. Fox News took advantage of the eclipse to scare viewers that migrants and smugglers were going to take advantage of three minutes of darkness. Wait until their viewers learn about this thing called “nighttime.” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Great observation --and, as with all good observations, once made it seems obvious: the obsession with identity and race of these radical left fit like a glove with the radical right preoccupations with the exact same issues.

He has done it again! Grant Sanderson has put out the best (and as usual, beautiful) video to understand the math behind transformers. Only basic matrix algebra needed. (The video right after this one does 'Attention is all you need') youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJ…

Strongly recommended.

What an amazing life. Great thread.

A great thread on a wonderful life. I have been reading Hirschman’s early work and found it deep and insightful. It’s long lost in economics.

More than his development work (more well known) or his later dubious push away from modern econ…it is his early work on trade, finance,…

USA progressive paradox:
- Championing the environment, but sabotaging clean energy projects.
- Advocating education, but shuttering schools for 18 months (and no algebra for kids, please!)
- Promoting housing access, while opposing construction.
Why?

All the handwringing in headlines about “oversupply” is always funny to me.

Oh no, the horror of consumers benefiting from falling prices…

Y si le sumamos la deuda explícita del Gobierno, la cifra se eleva al 600% del PIB de 2021.

Did you know foreign airlines can’t run flights between American cities? That limits our options for domestic flights and makes them more expensive. Competition means innovation and cheaper prices. It’s time for American airlines to step up their game.

España tiene la mayor 'deuda implicita' por las pensiones de Europa (EU+Efta): el número es gigantesco -el valor de las promesas hechas a los pensionistas futuros es 5 veces el PIB.

on.ft.com/3PLQC2U via Financial Times

This is great news. You would be hard pressed to find anyone in the profession with a bad word to say about him. A great economist and a great person. Indeed, Stanford is lucky to have him.

Wow. AI generated song with impossible lyrics. But it works.

It's seems impossible that within a week of taking your company public that:

• it launched at an $8B evaluation
• reported revenue at $4M year
• lost $60M in a year
• you're suing the co-founders
• arrests for insider trading
• connected to Russian money laundering
•…

Excellent New York Times Opinion essay by Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳: 'Israelis know...food is not a weapon of war. Israel is better than the way this war is being waged. It is better than blocking food and medicine to civilians. It is better than killing aid workers.' nytimes.com/2024/04/03/opi…