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For those keeping track, this is now (at least) the third wholly or partially AI-generated article on the theme of "taste" as enduring source of human comparative advantage to hit …

Yes. I use and enthusiastically endorse Math Academy. It is far and away the best self-learning educational resource I have ever tried; leagues better than Khan Academy. I'm a self…

These "what ifs" are kinda funny because the origins of JSX can be traced back to Facebook's XHP[1], which took explicit inspiration from E4X[2], an early JS standard that looked a…

> the scene is moving towards Leipzig Speaking as someone who's split ~half my time between Leipzig and Berlin for the last 5 years, this is not true. Leipzig's club scene is an ex…

If we limit this claim to _just_ German manufacturing competitiveness (which is often synonymous with "European manufacturing" in the context of these discussions -- and I will ass…

Air travel accounted for 2.5% of CO2 emissions in 2020, and its total contribution to global warming was probably closer to around 3.5%.[1] Only 11% of the world's population trave…

“Curtis’s stitched-together compositions are less collages than they are Rorschach blots: look into their murk, and you can find your own worldview confirmed.” This passage, which …

+1 daydream's comment on LLMs. But I think the steam on FP hype was already starting to run out for unrelated reasons. The briefest account I can offer on "peak FP" from my (web de…