It's fun that we're all talking about SOFR swaps now. Sorry, "fun".

Starting to think that in order to unravel this mess, we might need some sort of general agreement on trade and tariffs, perhaps housed under some sort of world trade organization. If we want to work closely with our neighbors, might I suggest some sort of north american free

Marshall Law is just a theorem in political-economy which says that economically aiding your allies is better for you in the short, medium, and long run than indiscriminately kicking them in the teeth.

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The under-staffing of the statistical agencies, particularly BLS, has become a *serious* problem. Someone really needs to take action. The statistical bureaus are so cheap in the grand scheme of the federal bureaucracy, and their marginal value to the US economy is huge.

Can we just pass a skinny bill that gives tax breaks to rich people (you gotta pay the donors) and nothing else? I will gladly forgo a couple grand in tax relief for my son to avoid 20 years of uncontrolled inflation and budgetary borrowing crises.

Fun fact: Keats and Yeats are the same person. Yeats is just the way you spell “Keats” in Ireland. Unless you’re using the Gaelic spelling with its weird downcasing rules, in which case it’s spelled “ee cummings”

I still find prompt engineering to be profoundly weird. Why isn't this code? Why are we still reverse engineering a black box with an educated guess as to the best input scheme made of English sentences? It's fine, but it is so unlike all other computing.

Reminiscing about stagflation is going to bring me so much closer to my parents.

Decibels are logarithms base 1.2589. johndcook.com/blog/2021/05/1…

Do British cyclists refer to Campagnolo as “Campag” while Americans say “Campy”?

It’s pathetic. Distributed computing was a bigger deal 20 years ago than it is now. Yes, that’s because cloud computing got way cheaper, but crypto is still all talk in this space.

It’s always DNS!

Great op-ed by Rachel D. Humphries defending Halloween trick-or-treating: wsj.com/opinion/hallow…