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Machine Learning
Why I'm Lukewarm on Graph Neural Networks
Where will machine learning go after transformers and GPUs?
Why Stephen Wolframs research program is a dead end
Economics
An Anatomy of Bitcoin Price Manipulation
. I wrote several articles in 2020-2022 on cryptocurrencies - I'm generally skeptical of the entire domain. This post goes deep into how certain markets are abused.The economic effects of automation arent what you think they are
Talks & Guest Appearances
(2022) Casey Muratori Interview on cryptocurrencies
(2021) When the music stops with Aviv Milner
(2018) Feedback Loops in data systems
Chronological archive
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- Cryptocurrency interview with Stephen Diehl
- The State of Stablecoin Risks (June 2022)
- Weekly Links 2022-04-13: I was quoted in WaPo edition
- Weekly Links 2022-04-06: Hieronymus Bosch Edition
- Weekly links 2022-03-31: Podcast Episodes Edition
- Weekly links 2022-03-25: you're not getting posts for a while edition
- Weekly links 2022-03-16: Distraction edition
- Weekly links 2022-03-07: Ukraine still holds edition
- Weekly links 2022-02-28: Ukraine Invasion Edition
- 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