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Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is the episode summary: Joanne Paul is a historian at the University of Sussex, author, and a go-to Tudor expert on YouTube. She tells Tyler she’s drawn to the 16th...
Read article →If you want to help, an aid expert advises you to donate cash to nonprofits involved in local rescue and recovery efforts.
Read article →Due to travel I have not had time to read this detailed report, but it is getting very good reviews The post Azeem Azhar (and others) on the state of the AI economy appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.
Read article →1. Can we make respiratory infections a thing of the past? 2. The new balance of power across companies and governments. 3. Using AI to find Brazil’s next soccer star? (NYT) 4. Token resale markets in everything. 5. A...
Read article →This is not a one-year blip. The US has been underperforming in terms of health, education and more for the past 25 years.
Read article →The latest issue of Works in Progress is superb. Every article is interesting. Chris Gillett points out something surprising: the US has plenty of electricity generation capacity ready to go, the problem is connecting...
Read article →We now have de facto AI regulation. It’s not obvious why from here on out models that have certain levels of capability or are trained on certain compute sizes won’t have to be reviewed by the government before releas...
Read article →More than 2 billion people participate annually in Ramadan fasting, making its potential effects on cognitive performance important for workplaces, education and high-stakes decision-making. We study these effects in ...
Read article →The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 represents the most significant reform of the U.S. income tax code since the Tax Reform Act of 1986. Previous analyses of the TCJA’s economic impact often rely on estimates bas...
Read article →It might seem surprising, in a world of global stars, that the 6m Danes, many of whom are fluent in English, listen mainly to homegrown music. And until fairly recently they did not. In 2019 only five songs in Denmark...
Read article →The tightly integrated North American beef market, under pressure from drought and the spread of the screwworm, could get further roiled by trade uncertainty.
Read article →A key challenge for the Federal Reserve is that higher gas prices are inflationary, but they also reduce households’ spending power and dampen growth.
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