Following a 2018 ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court, 38 states have legalized sports gambling. We study how this policy has impacted consumer financial health using the state-by-state rollout of legal sports gambling and a large and comprehensive dataset on consumer financial outcomes. Our main finding is that overall, consumers’ …
Akash Kulgod is a 23-year-old cognitive science graduate from UC Berkeley and chief canine comrade at Dognosis, where he is building tech that increases the bandwidth of human-canine communication. He received his EV grant for a pilot study in Northern Karnataka testing the performance of cyber-canines on multi-cancer screening from …
A further bump in real wages of up to 3.5 per cent is expected this year, alongside an expected 3 per cent jump in real disposable income, according to Russia’s Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-Term Forecasting. The unemployment rate, forecast to hit between 7 and 8 per cent in …
1. Two Patrick Collison citations on mentorship. 2. The refrigerator anecdote. 3. Nick Whitaker puts forward AI policy. 4. “The US economy has been expanding for 15 years, only interrupted by 2 months of contraction in early 2020″…and…”The US economy has now been in an expansion for 51 months with …
Reuters: To learn how this global industry works, reporters made multiple buys of precursors over the past year. Though a few of the sales proved to be scams, the journalists succeeded in buying 12 chemicals that could be used to make fentanyl, according to independent chemists consulted by Reuters. Most …
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one excerpt: A recent study finds that, of all domestic subsidies, the most effective involve replacing the dirty production of electricity with the cleaner production of electricity. In practice, that means subsidies or tax credits for solar and wind …
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is the episode summary: Tyler and Taylor take a walking tour of early history through North America covering the decisions, and ripples of those decisions, that shaped revolution and independence, including why Canada didn’t join the American revolution, why America in turn …
We’re presenting the first AI to solve International Mathematical Olympiad problems at a silver medalist level. It combines AlphaProof, a new breakthrough model for formal reasoning, and AlphaGeometry 2, an improved version of our previous system. Here is further information. From the NYT three days ago “A.I. Can Write Poetry, …
1. Malaysia to build a large AI and data centre next to Singapore (FT). 2. The Indicator from Planet Money NPR on whether AI might possibly be underrated, I am one of the guests. And beta website for The Rational Optimist Society. 3. Shruti on why observers of American politics …
An excellent post from Maxwell Tabarrok at Maximum Progress: On 75 percent or more of the residential land in most major American cities it is illegal to build anything other than a detached single-family home. 95.8 percent of total residential land area in California is zoned as single-family-only, which is …
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