The death of the AI security movement?
This is the subject of my latest column for Bloomberg, and here is part one: The security movement almost reached its peak in March 2023 […]
Month: May 2024
Non-Farmer Employment and Total: CES, QCEW, BED Early Benchmark, ADP
How confident are we of private NFP growth? Other concerns from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) through December. Figure 1: Month-to-month changes […]
How well is Wisconsin doing economically?
In early April. Wisconsinites’ views of the state’s economy have fallen sharply, despite some positive indicators [0]. In explaining the possibility that the perception of […]
The US government could approve quantum-resistant encryption from July
In July of that year, NIST selected four encryption algorithms to be part of the agency’s post-quantum cryptographic standard. At the time, Commerce Secretary Gina […]
Gotland Two Years Ago, Two Hundred Years Ago, and Now
In the past two years: That’s a picture from my hotel room, right after Sweden asked to join NATO. Just a few months after Russia’s […]
Microsoft Azure’s Russinovich sheds light on the key threats AI poses
The Microsoft Azure CTO pointed out that by changing just 1% of the data set – for example, using a backdoor – an attacker can […]
How important is the “scientific method”?
From a recently published paper by Alexander Krauss: Using the data of all important discoveries in all sciences including all Nobel laureates and major Nobel […]
Tom Hazlett on TikTok Ban
In my opinion, the best economics writer today is Tom Hazlett. He has a way with words. And good writing requires good thinking. Tom just […]
Wednesday separate links
1. Give an example of this, state variation in youth suicide rates. 2. What Swedes think about driverless car algorithms and their behavioral weights. 3. […]
What Do They Think Politics Is?
A strange story echoed Newsweek it suggests that most people have never thought about how democratic politics works, or perhaps confuse politics as they wish […]