Links for 11/27-12/03
- Are there anymore industry secrets in the tech world when most change jobs every four years?
- Another influential Twitter anon gets doxxed. But I guess Forbes does not count it as doxxing because "revealing the name behind an anonymous account of public note is not “doxxing,” which is an often-gendered form of online harassment that reveals private information — like an address or phone number — about a person without consent and with malicious intent. Okay, Emily Baker White. At least it lends credibility to the e/acc movement.
- In-depth article about the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership, and the details behind what happened over the weekend the board ousted Altman.
- Hardware still constrains software. OpenAI signs letter of intent to invest $51 million in AI-chip startup Rain.
- Google uses AI to find 2.2 million new inorganic crystals, of which 380,000 are stable and likely to work.
- So much at an Amazon warehouse is automated.
- Does GPT-4 think better in JS?
- Pete always says that GMU students should be like the short but good basketball players. Compensating differentials everywhere.
- Increase in regulations in the 1900s because the judicial court stopped blocking rent-seeking entrepreneurship policies after 1937, like the minimum wage.
- China's anti-corruption campaign reduced the bodyweight of public sector employees. Squeezing every drop out of your data when it doesn't talk?
- Do women bear a disproportionate burden of adult caregiving?
- Time to specialize in a male-dominated econ field. Women in male-dominated fields have a 56% chane of placing into a tenure-track assistant professor position, while counterparts in female-dominated fields only have a 44% rate. Selection definitely plays a role here, even though the authors control for it to the best of their ability.
- Why did top-down institutions stick after the Napoleonic invasion?
- ChatGPT has become far lazier this week, but tipping it produces better responses. Dog treats work just as well as tips.
- ChatGPT knows the date of its birthday. Had to be hard-coded in right?
- Grade inflation is real at Harvard and Yale.
- Cute thread of a cat working harder.
