After 25.3 million fully autonomous miles a new study from Waymo and Swiss Re concludes: [T]he Waymo ADS significantly outperformed…
From my latest Bloomberg column: Why is the food so good? I have several overlapping hypotheses, most of them coming…
There is a new and excellent paper by Anna Stansbury and Kyra Rodriguez on this topic: Unlike gender or race,…
Abhay Aneja and colleagues reveal that daughters of civil servants who were more exposed to female co-workers during WWI were significantly more likely…
1. Do AI compansions reduce loneliness? 2. Inflation rates across the income distribution. 3. Was the Antikythera mechanism a kind…
Perhaps that is why I like the country so much: Ideally, Marianne Korkalainen’s high school in Rautavaara, a tiny town…
1. Newswire data set from Melissa Dell. 2. “At the nuances level, low LS [life satisfaction] was most strongly associated…
This is perhaps my favorite food hall. Dating from 1896, the basic building is notable, the displays are lovely and…
In 2021, researchers were asked how smart AI would be in 2022. They predicted 12% pass-rate on the MATH dataset;…
1. WSJ profile of David Autor. 2. By Dean Ball, a simple public choice theory of what will go wrong…