ECONOMY

Alice Evans on female labor force participation and appreciation of female talent
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . July 10, 2024
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
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . July 7, 2024
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
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . July 4, 2024
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
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . July 1, 2024
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
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . June 28, 2024
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
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . June 25, 2024
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
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . June 22, 2024
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
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . June 19, 2024
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,

*The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned*
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . June 16, 2024
By John Strausbaugh, an excellent book. Here is one good passage of many: Putting dogs on top of rockets was nothing new. Since so little

A virtual rodent predicts the structure of neural activity across behaviors
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . June 13, 2024
Animals have exquisite control of their bodies, allowing them to perform a diverse range of behaviors. How such control is implemented by the brain, however,