Thursday, March 13, 2025

I tried to come up with a snarky title, but I was hard-pressed to top "timeless appeal" -- another entry in our Adventures in IP thread

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Not the worst IP proposal for a universe we've seen recently (remind me to talk about the return of Atlas Comics), but probably the most...
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

How can we possibly hope to rebuild after losing more than one half of a percent of our housing?

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 Two months later and the Wall Street Journal is still pushing the drama (not to mention a couple of its favorite narratives). Rebuilding Lo...
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Note to Elon: When people are accusing you of being a Nazi, blaming it on a George Soros conspiracy may not be the smartest move.

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It's not often that I recommend a Motley Fool article over a Lawyers, Guns & Money post , particularly not one by Scott Lemieux, ...
Monday, March 10, 2025

Ten years ago at the blog, March was pretty much Mars One month

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It has largely been shoved down the memory hole, but in 2014 and 2015, virtually every major news organization was credulously reporting on ...
Friday, March 7, 2025

XKCD on DST

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From XKCD Monroe also suggests an alternate solution in the title text, averaging out the spring and fall changes and setting clocks 3...
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Have we mentioned how unfair it is to single out Arthur Conan Doyle?

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Yes, I'll admit that falling for those fairy pictures was pretty embarrassing, but Doyle had lots of company in his belief in the parano...
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Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Clive James's example may be god-awful, but what about the point he was trying to make?

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 Picking up on our discussion of this claim: The best Hitchcock film was directed by someone else. Charade would not be as good as it is i...
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Tuesday, March 4, 2025

A Blacker Black Box

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From Matt Levine's newsletter: There are two basic ways to use artificial intelligence to predict stock prices: You build a deep learn...
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Monday, March 3, 2025

The Grandiosity/Contribution Ratio -- another newly relevant repost

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One of the recurring threads at the blog for years now has been the Lords of Ithuvania , the way we have collectively treated people who stu...
Friday, February 28, 2025

More thoughts on criticism -- critics and reviewers

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 Both reviewer and critic are honorable professions, with, if anything, the former being more valuable. The best reviewers by a wide margin ...
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Thursday, February 27, 2025

Two completely unrelated news stories

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From the Arkansas Times: Bill deregulating raw dairy products passes Senate, heads to governor’s desk  by Phillip Powell A bill to deregulat...
Wednesday, February 26, 2025

"There seems to be a plague of jellyfish and really a plague of anything is usually not considered good."

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As previously mentioned ( "The city would naturally form a line as it tried to get away from itself." ), Patrick Boyle is one of t...
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Thiel is Dr. Mabuse. Musk is Cobra Commander.

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From Josh Marshall: Against the backdrop of a month of chaos and destruction, something began to shift more or less in the middle of this w...
Monday, February 24, 2025

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the LLM part 2 -- a proof-reader, not an editor

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I have two dictation options which, being a horrible typist, I use frequently. The first is Dragon NaturallySpeaking on my laptop, which wor...
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Friday, February 21, 2025

"What was Clive James thinking?" Maybe the question is when was he thinking it?

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From Andrew Gelman : From The Dreaming Swimmer (1992), one of Clive James’s classic essay collections:     The best Hitchcock film was direc...
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