Finance

The period from 1870 to 1910, which includes the Age of Prosperity, is shown everywhere as one of rapid economic growth. This growth is often […]

1. The latest @pmarca gambit. Crypto + AI. And Brian Armstrong’s offer, take it! 2. Where did all that Millennium wealth come from so suddenly? […]

If tradition means a set of shared moral rules (many) and common exposure to certain ideas (if this second category is not excessive), then culture […]

What is a piebald deer, a rare animal recently spotted in Western Pennsylvania? CBS Pittsburgh Kentucky Man Declared Brain Dead Awakens Moments Before Organ Harvest […]

This is the subject of my latest column for Bloomberg, here is an excerpt: It is also important whether Satoshi was an individual or a […]

Yves here. This post by Richard Murphy makes an important and often overlooked point: the roles played by small and large businesses are very different, […]

Yves here. We published a GPENewsdoc piece on AI for synthetic biology that highlights key risks. Unfortunately the post received a lot of comments, probably […]

We argue that deep learning offers a promising way to manage the curse of scale in economies of scale. We begin by examining the unique […]

Ryan Cummings and Ernie Tedeschi have a very interesting article on BriefingBook today that sheds new light on the divergence between measured sentiment and conventional […]

It won’t take long to answer this question. So most of this post will be devoted to thinking about why this is a problem. Consider […]