Friday, October 29, 2021

The benefits of procrastination

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Andrew Gelman left this comment a few weeks ago: I think there's something else going on here that lots of people _want_ these people t...
Thursday, October 28, 2021

Lessons from the Russian Steppe

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This is Joseph This paper explores the huge increase in mortality seen in Russa in the 1990's, when the old system was replaced by a ne...
Wednesday, October 27, 2021

While we were out...

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The Tesla thread has been heating up a bit . Tesla, a company that makes electric cars but not an electric truck or electric semi, hit ...
Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Institutional accountability

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This is Joseph EDIT: the context of this case is that Sarah Everard was murdered by a police officer, Wayne Couzens, who arrested her for an...
Monday, October 25, 2021

More on the Missy Cummings story

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As Lora Kolodny points out, this sort of the thing has been happening to Tesla critics for years, particularly when the critics were women. ...
Friday, October 22, 2021

Moving on from historical grievances

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This is Joseph. In my youth I lived in the SE of the United States. It was not uncommon, at least back then, for people to bring up ways tha...
Thursday, October 21, 2021

Thursday Tweets

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As long as he doesn't try to write about California , he's always welcome. Big money thought it was using G.O.P. extremist...
Wednesday, October 20, 2021

I'm sure that Tesla fans will welcome having a leading AI researcher working with NHTSA...

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  Big news for NHTSA, Tesla, and autonomous vehicle regulation: "The White House plans to announce Duke University engineering & c...
Tuesday, October 19, 2021

The trouble with posting your review five years before the book comes out is that you tend to get left out of the conversation.

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I know some of you are going to quibble about this not actually being a review of Bobby Duffy's The Generation Myth , arguing that this ...
Monday, October 18, 2021

Either this is interesting or I'm doing something wrong

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This seems to be a good time to remind everyone following this thread that I have no expertise whatsoever here. I work with numbers for a li...
Friday, October 15, 2021

Weekend video miscellanea -- housing and transportation edition

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If you can find a more concise, approachable way to understand critical concepts in driving automation then by all means, watch them. Thing ...
Thursday, October 14, 2021

What we were talking about in 2015 was the possibility of basically this...

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Trump statement just now: "If we don’t solve the Presidential Election Fraud of 2020 (which we have thoroughly and conclusively d...
Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Urbanism

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This is Joseph. One piece of the housing cost piece that is complicated is that a lot of the YIMBYs are also urbanists. For example, look at...
Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Tuesday Tweets

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Growing up in the Bible Belt, I was always struck by how much white evangelicals based their identity on feelings of persecution. https://t...
Monday, October 11, 2021

Eleven years ago at the blog -- on a completely unrelated note, I've been thinking about how the hyperloop will revolutionize commuting

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Or maybe flying cars, but definitely one of the two. MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2010 The cusp of coolness One of the most popular genres of science ...