Consumer Reports Thought a Tesla Took Too Long to Stop. The Company Fixed It Via a Software Update.
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On evangelical bigotry and the “ick” factor
LinkChristianity, when properly understood, is a religion of losers
LinkRenting is throwing money away … right?
LinkTinder and the dawn of the dating apocalypse
LinkIs legal marijuana more potent?
LinkPass-through rates of minimum wages into retail consumers
LinkPass-through rates of minimum wages into retail consumers
Fascinating study by Tobias Renkin, Claire Montialoux, and Michael Siegenthaler that uses micro-level supermarket scanner data (retail is famously good at tracking data).
The seven deadly sins of AI predictions
LinkThe seven deadly sins of AI predictions
Most AI proponents seem to make assumptions based on a very poor understanding of Moore’s Law or other hubristic “technology will continue exponential growth forever”; most skeptics seem to make assumptions that make them sound like Luddites. Brooks, the former director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, makes neither mistake.
Stock trades of SEC employees
LinkIn no way definitive (nor meant to be), but fascinating look at an under-developed topic: how SEC employees’ trades fare and why it might be the case that their portfolios preempt bad news better than peers’. Worth remembering that while capitalist firms are imperfect and prone to cheating, so are regulatory agencies…
Using Yelp data to measure economic activity
LinkUsing Yelp data to measure economic activity
Extremely interesting approach. My (non-academic) sense is that economics data collection approaches haven’t adapted as quickly to the “Big Data” era and this paper seems like a very cool outlier.