Merry Christmas!
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AI is Not Slowing Down, Except for Stop Lights
After 25.3 million fully autonomous miles a new study from Waymo and Swiss Re concludes: [T]he Waymo ADS significantly outperformed both the overall driving population
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