Favorites December 14th 2022

September 2022, Google Bayview

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

@krishnanrohit @AgnesCallard I used to laugh at the idea that there was one guy responsible for delivering all the world's presents directly to everyone's house, who knows everything about you and maintains a vast army of overworked workers.

I did not expect this to work on so many angles.

Alec Stapp @AlecStapp

We need to automate our ports this is embarrassing

And here's an excerpt about how much better the one automated US port has been handling high traffic volumes.

Ethan Mollick @emollick

Though we can hope this is changing, an analysis of 20M research teams finds that the further team members are located each other, the less likely they are to come up with a disruptive, breakthrough innovation. Time zone differences really kill innovation. arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/pape…

Seems bad if you like remote work. He also referenced some older paper, a study of scientists working remotely: remote teams on projects going well did even better, but ones on failing projects handled the situation even worse remotely.

Carbon Brief @CarbonBrief

Analysis: IEA’s renewables forecast grows 76% in two years after ‘largest ever’ revision | @Josh_Gabbatiss Read here: bit.ly/3FQrd3f

If you're unfamiliar with IEA's renewable growth projections, they undershoot every year, and not by a small amount.

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

As I said in the episode, I think feminists sometimes fall into a trap where they assume society-wide gender equality requires 50/50 sharing of responsibilities within every individual family.

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

But that's wrong. If we want more women to be CEOs, senators, law firm partners, etc, they're going to need to put in long hours at work, which means they'll need spouses who do more than 50 percent of the work at home.

I've heard Tim Lee talk about this subject a lot, but this version of his point is the most succinct I've heard yet.

Randall Munroe @xkcd

Optimal Bowling xkcd.com/2711

Threads

• Short thread covering Europe's chip capabilities. TL;DR: they're good at making the machines that make the chips, and the capabilities are spread out over the entire region

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