Technology advances forced the Census Bureau to use sweeping measures to ensure privacy for respondents. The ensuing debate goes to the heart of what a census is.

This is a great article on a big-name application of differential privacy: it even features an interview with Dworkin! This, to me, seems like a pretty necessary change to preserve the privacy of folks.

via: https://mit.edu/6.1800/www/tutorials/01-intro.shtml

If you want to liberate women, don’t major in gender studies. Major in reproductive biology.

When someone says something like “The us paid $1.1 trillion for its 2003 invasion of Iraq,” you can think to yourself, “Okay, that’s like a paying for the repairs of a global 100-year natural disaster in the PC age.”

Are the youth succumbing to a “negativity bias” where they see the past through “rose-colored glasses”? Are the economists looking at some ivory tower High Modernist metric that fails to capture real life? Or is there something more complicated going on?

As per usual in economics, the answer is “it’s complicated.”

Ekonomisida från ett vänsterperspektiv.

A brief theory of young men, “the loneliness crisis,” and life in the 21st century

Nice quote:

The first half of the twentieth century was about mastering the physical world, the first half of the twenty-first has been about escaping it.

Zohran Mamdani is writing a new blueprint for the left to actually win.

Our future is also a blind box.

Our future is also a blind box.

Very nice introduction to sheaves with bog implications on metascience, cryptography, and economics.

see: https://github.com/DavidJaz/DavidJaz.github.io/blob/master/Talks%2FFRA_2021_David_Jaz_Myers.pdf

Recent findings reveal that even simple pricing algorithms can make things more expensive.

Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question. The Perplexity Finance page utilizes the platform’s AI capabilities to provide a specialized search and answer tool for queries related to financial markets, investing, and economic data.

This http webpage serves as a collection of Jim Shamlin’s study notes on various short-form works, covering topics in software development, business, economics, and ethics, intended primarily for his own research and reference.

This blog post visualizes the extreme wealth distribution in the United States using a histogram with a linear scale, demonstrating that from the perspective of the ultra-wealthy, nearly the entire population is crammed into the first bar.

Mankiw’s 10 principles of economics, translated for the uninitiated

via: https://www.reinvent.science/p/use-humor

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