Monday, August 31, 2020

Musk also promised you could use it to mentally summon your Tesla

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Julia Carrie Wong writing for the Guardian Neuralink: Elon Musk unveils pig he claims has computer implant in brain The tech entrepren...
Friday, August 28, 2020

The perils of aggregation in complex systems

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This is Joseph I want to follow up on Mark's great cigarettes and cocaine post . I think the key to the post is the danger of aggregatio...
Thursday, August 27, 2020

Would "North Dakota" have been funnier than "Wyoming"?

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It's probably a good thing that Nate Silver doesn't read my blog because for all the man's considerable talents (I'm a big a...
Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Another old post that's feeling newly relevant

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Tuesday, June 13, 2017 Ponzi Thresholds Another post based on Reeves Wiedeman's Uber article in New York magazine. This one sets ...
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Tuesday Tweets

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When the dust finally settles and we try to makes sense of all this, one of the key elements of the story will be the way the conservative m...
Monday, August 24, 2020

A cigarettes and cocaine argument

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Been meaning to do a post on this for a while. The basic form goes something like this: Our household spending is out of control. Betwe...
Friday, August 21, 2020

Friday video miscellanea

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Thursday, August 20, 2020

Franchises for Netflix are like full self driving for Tesla. Big, companies-saving breakthroughs that are always around the corner. The key difference is, with Netflix when a car crashes and burst into flames, it’s all CGI.

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We’ve already covered the discussion of reality television in Julia Alexander’s article for the Verge. Here’s another section that jumped ...
Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Getting into Match King territory

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At least we still have a little ways to go. Ivan Kreuger In 1929, at the peak of his career, the Kreuger fortune was thought to be worth...
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Tuesday Tweets

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Not the greatest, but top five. A Godzilla museum just opened in Japan. Very soon they will open phase two that includes a ZIP LINE that ...
Monday, August 17, 2020

He basically came out and admitted they're playing a short term game and no one noticed (Damn, Netflix is good at this)

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This is another master class in controlling the narrative from Netflix's Ted Sarandos. For those coming late to the party ... The st...
Friday, August 14, 2020

Analog recording without analogs

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[slightly edited repost] Two examples of artists who manually created their works on media normally used for analog recording. Conlon N...
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Thursday, August 13, 2020

Yes, more on Netflix, Avatar and the New Yorker.-- controlling the narrative

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As we said earlier , there's nothing especially unscrupulous about Netflix (certainly not by 2020 corporate standards), but if ...
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Whatever-day-of-the-week-it-is Tweets

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A day at the beach in 1896 #FrèresLumière pic.twitter.com/SHzZGS6Wdg — Giles Paley-Phillips (@eliistender10) August 8, 2020 Even ...
Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Andrew Gelman is worth reading

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 This is Joseph Andrew Gelman has an important reminder: Lots of doctors can do this sort of thing—lots of them are indeed excellent at e...
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