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Best Posts
Machine Learning
Why I'm Lukewarm on Graph Neural Networks. While the post is ostensibly about GNNs, I still like how it explains neural network and embedding systems.
Where will machine learning go after transformers and GPUs? A long walk through the history of computer hardware, how it drove changes in the machine learning/AI space and what the future holds.
Why Stephen Wolframs research program is a dead end. In 2020, Wolfram came up with a new "theory of everything". I poke holes into his scientific method.
Economics
An Anatomy of Bitcoin Price Manipulation. Probably my favorite post ever written. I go deep into how cryptocurrency markets are abused. The piece ended up being used by Ben McKenzie (yes, that one) in a WSJ article.
The economic effects of automation arent what you think they are. This post goes over how automation and AI will change the labor market. The changes aren't what you think they are.
Chronological archive
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- We've passed the peak of the economic cycle and everyone is sleeping on it
- Ego T6 Electric Lawn Tractor Review - Gas landscaping likely won't exist much longer
- Where will machine learning go after transformers on GPU? The history and future of Machine Learning hardware
- How I nearly got scammed on FB
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- Cryptocurrency interview with Stephen Diehl
- The State of Stablecoin Risks (June 2022)
- I was quoted in the Ben McKenzie's Washigton Post piece
- Fun Facts about Hieronymus Bosch
- A list of outstanding podcast episodes
- Why You Should Not Hire a Real Estate Agent
- Cryptocurrency interview with Casey Muratori
- An Anatomy of Bitcoin Price Manipulation
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- How badly is cryptocurrency worsening the chip shortage?
- A Nobel worthy game theory problem
- Inflation is not cost of living
- Is USDC another Tether?
- Podcast Interview: When the Music Stops with Aviv Milner
- The Tether Ponzi Scheme
- Economics Explained and bad hyperinflation takes
- The next BTC crash could be something to behold
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- Why I'm lukewarm on graph neural networks
- BadEconomics: Putting $400M of Bitcoin on your company balance sheet
- Starting a Brick & Mortar Business in 2020
- The publishing format defines the art: How VHS changed movie runtimes
- The rural/urban divide is an American phenomenon and other bad takes
- Why Stephen Wolfram's research program is a dead end
- Three months with MacOS after 20 years without: A Review
- [Bad Economics] Matt Stoller is an uninformed clown
- Why object oriented codebases are harder to refactor
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- Media franchises don't make their money from what made them famous
- The economic effects of automation aren't what you think they are
- A decade later, Reddit's comment sorting still fails to do its job
- FAQ: Does automation lead to political polarization?
- How to use "Thinking Fast and Slow" to be more successful
- 700x faster node2vec models: fastest random walks on a graph
- Bad FDA reporting reminds us self reported data is tricky
- Why is network analysis not popular yet?
- Why are video game movies are all terrible?
- Bad Economics: US could be at $160k GDP/capita, says John Cochrane
- Don't Use Spider Charts
- How 44 online facists got "redpilled" online (visualization)
- Lateral reading: the skill we need to teach everyone
- Word embeddings: From the ground up
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- Today in bad pop science: "You’re Probably a Psychopath if You Like Your Coffee Black"
- Bad Economics: Shame on you, Planet Money (MMT episode)
- Programming trick: Cantor Pairing (perfect hashing of two integers)
- "Key registers on keyboard but not on computer" fix
- Bad Economics: Redditor says government incompetence is overstated in Venezuela crisis
- Bad Economics: Is Obama Designing the End of Capitalism? (Ben Shapiro, 2009)
- How to get a job (efficiently)
- Bad Economics: Existential Comics and the productivity/workweek length myth
- Why does retro video game emulation not feel good? Latency analysis
- Bad Economics: NYC comptroller can't tell causation from correlation
- Bad Economics: Student Evaluations Can’t Be Used to Assess Professors. They’re Discriminatory against women. (says study with n=2)
- Bad Economics: What should we do about rising education costs?
- Safe subgame solving: the breakthrough in computer poker
- Bad Economics: You should know better than this, Priceonomics