Our house has a box room, full of boxes that we still haven’t unpacked from our last move. A couple of weeks ago something in that room started intermittently beeping. …
rssone-thingKyle tries out Lonnies, a new neighborhood restaurant in Brooklyn that is local in a globalized way; painter Celia Paul pierces her own self-mythology; loneliness influencers aren’t lonely enough — everything you should know for your weekend, really.
Things…
rssone-thingFirst, this week’s culture links (my fav: do artists need to be hot now?), then a guide from Nate on how to best follow the World Cup, whether you know a lot about international soccer or nothing at all.
Things of the week
David Hockney, Christopher…
rssone-thingSummer is the time for silly parties. You don’t need a reason or an excuse; just send out the email or mass text and go from there. Whatever happens will be fun. Nick Andersen suggests combatting adulthood ennui with an entertainment challenge.
Don’t put all…
rssarg-minHi there, argmin readers! Today’s post is about the history of failing to rigorously define efficiency in computer science. Like my previous post on Fourier transforms, it’s more technical than usual, but I tried to make it as accessible as possible.
I’ve…
rssarg-minHi there, argmin readers. Today I’m Monday Morning Quarterbacking and wrote one of my sporadic football analytics posts.
NFL Sunday was a wild and weird one. Rare events dominate the NFL and are what makes it so fun to watch. The Tampa Bay Bucs destroyed the…
rssarg-minHi there, argmin readers! Today’s post is a live blog of Class 17 of my graduate seminar “Forecasting: A Critical Retrospective.” In this class, we’re going to discuss simulation as a means of prediction. The syllabus and list of past posts are here.
In a…
rssarg-minHi there, argmin readers! Today’s post is a late and brief reaction to a tiny subplot of yesterday’s historic election: the widespread rejection of AI datacenters. It was inspired by an insightful Dan Davies thread on bluesky that I have been unable to get…
The outsourcing era showed that making code cheaper moves the real cost from production to comprehension. AI-generated code makes that problem more acute. ...