Is Indian food the world’s best?
From my latest Bloomberg column: Why is the food so good? I have several overlapping hypotheses, most of them coming from my background as an
The class gap in academic career progression
There is a new and excellent paper by Anna Stansbury and Kyra Rodriguez on this topic: Unlike gender or race, class is rarely a focus
Alice Evans on female labor force participation and appreciation of female talent
Abhay Aneja and colleagues reveal that daughters of civil servants who were more exposed to female co-workers during WWI were significantly more likely to work. For each standard
Saturday assorted links
1. Do AI compansions reduce loneliness? 2. Inflation rates across the income distribution. 3. Was the Antikythera mechanism a kind of lunar calendar? (NYT) 4.
Finland knows how to troll MR commentators
Perhaps that is why I like the country so much: Ideally, Marianne Korkalainen’s high school in Rautavaara, a tiny town in eastern Finland, would enroll
Sunday assorted links
1. Newswire data set from Melissa Dell. 2. “At the nuances level, low LS [life satisfaction] was most strongly associated with feeling misunderstood, unexcited, indecisive,
The Turku food hall – Marginal REVOLUTION
This is perhaps my favorite food hall. Dating from 1896, the basic building is notable, the displays are lovely and suitably Nordic, and for lunch
AI trends relative to AI predictions
In 2021, researchers were asked how smart AI would be in 2022. They predicted 12% pass-rate on the MATH dataset; AI outperformed significantly, scoring 50%.
Friday assorted links
1. WSJ profile of David Autor. 2. By Dean Ball, a simple public choice theory of what will go wrong with SB 1047. I genuinely
Analyzing my text messages with my ex-boyfriend
With sentiment analysis over time, messages containing the word “sorry, and more. Trends! There is also a graph on how often “marginalized identity” was discussed,