Great initiative, but I must ask: is the Greek compound formed from makro and gamy entirely accidental? Because it describes the past twenty years quite accurately.
Danish government makes its new economic model open source
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#52I've often wondered whether the first super-intelligent AI that gets created, if it somehow manages to be both under government control and not put to strictly military uses, might be tasked with modelling the economy and deciding on the "correct" set of economic policies. Extending the scope of AI decision-making outside of the realm of economics seems much harder, though, as there's much less training data for ques…
Isaac Asimov thought so too :-)
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Do you mean the Turkiye government? ;) (Reference to the recent news item that Erdogan made a public statement in which he renamed Turkey to Turkiye in English.)
Do countries get to declare how their names are spelled in other languages?
Excuse me? Of course! Do people get to declare their name and pronoun?
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do countries get to declare how their names are spelled in other languages?
Excuse me? Of course! Do people get to declare their name and pronoun?
So Germany really decided that its name in English is "Germany" and not "Deutchland"?
I always assumed those names originated externally.
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Thanks! Julia was not even in 1.0 when we started the project, but would absolutely be a great choice today. So far, only the Conopt4 solver can solve our model, which means we have to go through GAMS even if we rewrite in Julia. I saw Rackauckas' JuliaCon presentation where he talks about ML approximations and immediately got excited too.
What is your opinion of this vs Gurobi ? The only reason I ask is because your model is written in a proprietary language. While Gurobi models are written in Python (and solved by the silver). Just curious if you found it not effective.
My guess is that the non-linearity of the problem might make it harder for something like Gurobi to solve. GAMS is essentially a frontend for solvers, so you are compiling your input source into a format suitable for an underlying solver or a set thereof.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Excuse me? Of course! Do people get to declare their name and pronoun?
So Germany really decided that its name in English is "Germany" and not "Deutchland"? I always assumed those names originated externally.
I’m pretttttty sure it originates locally! Why would the U.S. tell China to call us “Meiguo”, and why would China listen?
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#58THIS is the way. It is a step forward in transparency (even though 90% of danes probably don't understand a thing of what was published) which is something no one I know is opposed to. Hope this sets a precedent for other countries to follow!
I guess the way is to verify and check the model over the coming years against the open data which initiated it... so we'll see :) these things can get quite chaotic when taking externalities into account.
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I don't understand the use of Chicago as a verb, can you help? Also, do we explicitly know it was the US, or just implicitly?
They're referring to the CIA assisted fascist coup where the Chicago Boys "ran" the economy afterward using it as a place to experiment with their ideology. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Boys 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d'%C3%A9tat
I guess the Chicago police murdering black communists fits too, although I hadn’t thought of that initially.
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#60Wow now I’m a fan of Denmark! This is the future of government!
Just now? Denmark is an interesting country for programming and technology education / discovery:
https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-about-Denmark-that-many-wel...