Favorites September 27th 2023
Here's the article, I appreciated the visualisations as he goes through the output of the model.
If you haven't heard the term before, here's his explanation of "zero interest rate phenomenon".
Longer Reads
• Thread detailing a new study of which cities and counties under produce housing compared to demand. (src)
• Teriffic thread summarizing a paper about the limits of LLMs. TL;DR: they continue to have problems with situations where a similar but wrong answer common in the training corpus. (src)
Flotsam and Jetsam
– Trump bought a gun in South Carolina, but he's under federal indictment, and is not allowed to buy a gun. So his spokesperson is saying: oh, just kidding, he didn't buy a gun (src)
– The US Refugee resettlement program has doubled the number of admits two years in a row, and is now back up to 2017 levels. (50 thousand people) (src)
– Treasuries are up to 4.5%, which is concerning. (src)
– Idea for immigration reform that would pass: allow more doctors (src)
– Republicans want to cut funding for low income public schools. (src)
– Chinese birth rates have fallen by half since 2016 (src)
– Fire trucks are too big (src)
– Pentagon wants thousands of cheap military drones, their primary supplier has made 38 in the last year. (src)
– A new accent is developing in the science station in Antarctica, it's even measurable. However, it is almost imperceptible if you're just listening to conversation. (src)
– The key to getting DC's metro complete was to start digging asap, so that once there was resistance, it was more expensive to undo it than to just finish the project. (src)
– Texas is about to pass California in installed solar capacity (src)
– "Conservatives" are actually two groups, one that wants to keep things as they are, and one that wants to roll things back decades. This is true of liberals as well, but the split on the conservative side is wider. (src)
– The median wind farm protest is just 25 people. (src)
– Strike Force Five is coming to an end, since the strike ended. (src)