Favorites December 30th 2023
This is a personallized vaccine, they modify it so that it carries instructions your specific cancer cells. Very cool.
Here's the article he's linking about Italy's problems with productivity. In America the kids don't run the family firm, they fritter away the family money to ensure we don't have a permanently wealthy class. Amanda Orson looked up the old robber baron era wealthy families, they're mostly long gone. The most significant remaining wealthy family (Hearst) barred their progeny from taking over the family business.
Still insane that Apple decided to knock over the business model of all social apps while giving a massive advantage to their own ad platform. And they've so far entirely avoided repercussions. Don Draper, advising Apple: "No everybody else’s ads are tracking you. Ours are personalized.” I couldn’t help myself, I went ahead and created this:
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Longer Reads
• Short argument that folks who are complaining about the decline of the internet right now are complaining for reasons beyond the standard "SNL in my day was better" reasons. (src)
Flotsam and Jetsam
– Still insane that Apple decided to knock over the business model of all social apps while giving a massive advantage to their own ad platform. And they've so far entirely avoided repercussions. (src)
– Trump posts a word cloud of his own speeches, largest word is 'revenge', why is he proud of that? (src)
– New Zealand has tripled their home construction rate with YIMBY policy changes (src)
– Low income voters' policy preferences match actual redistribution policies across countries. Democracy Works! (src)
– Regarding an economic year-end review for the United States: yup serious overperformance. (src)
– Yet more imagery of North Korea vs South Korea at night (src)
– Rags-to-riches folks have less sympathy for the poor than people born into wealth (src)
– Homeownership among americans under 35 is up significantly since 2016. The last few years have been quite good for millenials even if millenials say it hasn't been. (src)
– Red states build housing and renewable energy much faster than blue states (src)
– American politics: everyone thinks their side is losing. (src)
– Real GDP growth across the US, really quite well spread out (src)
– Figuring out how bumpy roads are from uber rides (src)
– Storm surge hitting Santa Cruz is pretty wild. (src)
– Someone else managed to optimize a 70B LLM model to run on a Macbook with just a couple gigs of ram. (src)
– Link to an article with a socratic dialogue discussing whether it'll be possible to continue to scale LLMs and get better results out of them. (src)
– Even the most optimistic experts undershot how much solar would be installed this year (src)