Friday, June 16, 2023

John Galt

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This is Joseph. John Galt, the hero of Atlas Shrugged, has a number of conceptual problems. However, one major issue is the absolutism of in...
Thursday, June 15, 2023

Thursday Tweets -- I thought we could go two weeks without Musk, but I hadn't counted on dictator nostalgia.

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I'm not really a finance guy, but I don't think this is a good sign. $TSLA SVP Drew Baglino also sold shares this week. Honestly, h...
Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Do I owe Ron DeSantis an apology?

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[For the record, none of this applies to Michael Hiltzik, who pushed back on the standard narrative from day one.] Andrew Gelman pushed back...
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Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Who would have thought that deciding to base a pick-up on those cars from Blade Runner would lead to engineering issues...

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Before we get into this, it should be noted that the market reacted (or more accurately, failed to react) to this by pumping the stock up 15...
Monday, June 12, 2023

"Melted, that would be enough to hypothetically drape almost 5 inches of water across the entire state of California."

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It's been strange watching California's weather become such a big national story, partially because of the disconnect in tone The at...
Friday, June 9, 2023

Ten years ago at the blog

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Thomas Friedman demonstrates the Roommate Effect I have mixed feelings about criticizing Thomas Friedman. For one thing, it's been ...
Thursday, June 8, 2023

Thursday Tweets -- now less musky

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We are overstocked with bad science this week (AI, UFOs, Flat Earthers and RFK jr.), I thought I'd skip any tweets about a certain indiv...
Wednesday, June 7, 2023

The sad part is he's still better at his job than Chapek was

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Living within walking distance of the Warner Brothers lot, I see an uncountable number of For Your Consideration billboards and I hear a lot...
Tuesday, June 6, 2023

The term of the day is "Reverse Centaur"

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 From Cory Doctorow : In AI circles, a “centaur” describes a certain kind of machine/human collaboration, in which “decision-support” system...
Monday, June 5, 2023

Over the next year and (almost) and half, you're going to hear a lot of historical "rules" from 538, the Upshot, etc. Here's a counter example to keep in mind when they start to sound persuasive.

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 The pattern was clearer than almost any of the rules that were dredged up by data journalists in the past couple of elections to support th...
Friday, June 2, 2023

Ten years ago at the blog -- I may owe Burger King an Apology

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Not because BK has notably upped their game, but they don't seem to have had any big screw-ups lately and they certainly haven't don...