Wednesday, March 15, 2023

"Everything you need to know about the wild world of heat pumps" is nowhere near everything you need to know about heat pumps

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  I had such high hopes for this MIT Technology Review article by Casey Crownhart . Finally, someone was talking about an important, ready-...
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Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Housing starts and neighborhood character

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This is Joseph. Mike Moffatt is at it again . He looks at the growth in non-permanent residents in Canada from 2014 to 2022 and it has incre...
Monday, March 13, 2023

Your Silicon Valley Bank Primer

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 As is often the case, the best thumbnail comes from Matt Levine. And so if you were the Bank of Startups, just like if you were the Bank o...
Friday, March 10, 2023

Deferred Thursday Tweets -- Dems in Disarray and other favorites

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We've been talking about consistently this here at the blog since 2015. All Trump has to say is "don't vote" and the GOP i...
Thursday, March 9, 2023

We need to talk about tests (in the "I got an A" sense, not the RCT sense)

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We are hearing all sorts of hype about large language models passing various exams , but before we can have that conversation, we need to ha...
Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Seems like a good time to revisit IBM's war on cancer

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We provided mental health support to about 4,000 people — using 2nd-hand Furbies. Here’s what happened — Mark Palko (@MarkPalko1) March 4, ...
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Tuesday, March 7, 2023

An interesting piece of housing history

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70,000 mail-order homes between 1908 and 1940. Some enthusiasts estimate that about 70% of Sears houses are still standing today. Sears pro...
Monday, March 6, 2023

A human knight/knave puzzle

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In real life, very few people are wrong reliably enough to be useful. You get people who are basically coin flips and others who are wrong m...
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Friday, March 3, 2023

Law and order

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This is Joseph. You need to read the responses to these tweets by Matt Yglesias to believe them : Even the Libertarians get why this is a pr...
Thursday, March 2, 2023

Thursday Tweets -- You can take the boy out of South Africa...

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Sometimes in life, you just have to take a stand on the things you really believe in. Like racial segregation. https://t.co/Zr6yRYmfK6 — Ro...
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

It always feels reassuring when Josh Marshall agrees with you

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Kilmeade desperately trying to find someone in a FL diner who wants Desantis for president. It doesn’t go well. pic.twitter.com/IxJPYa9lVF —...