Thursday, January 22, 2026

Closing tabs, Thursday Version – by scott cunningham

I really want to get the tabs off my Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional — that’s an entire wasp’s nest. However fo now I’m simply going to scrub home on my telephone and laptop computer. It’s not a ton of stuff, however possibly you’ll discover some issues attention-grabbing in right here.

Want me luck — I’m en path to Vermont to Middlebury Faculty to see my coauthor and pal Caitlin Myers and her colleagues and college students. I’ll be presenting a brand new paper (very practically able to put up on-line). Within the meantime, right here’s a bunch of hyperlinks! Thanks for all of your help!

Matt Damon stated Netflix advised him that when he makes motion pictures, remind the viewers often what the plot is as a result of they’re really on their telephones. That’s in all probability good recommendation for individuals presenting papers in seminars too.

Right here’s one thing from Zvi about advances in self-driving automobiles. We’re sooner or later.

Developments In Self-Driving Vehicles

Going Full San Francisco…

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15 days in the past · 68 likes · 51 feedback · Zvi Mowshowitz

Don’t marry somebody who appears down on you (or vice versa). Not unhealthy recommendation.

Don’t Marry Somebody Who Appears to be like Down On You (Or Who You Look Down On)

Typically, individuals come into counseling as a result of they give the impression of being down on their companion or really feel their companion appears down on them. Among the areas that meet with condescension are a companion’s appears, intelligence, politics, intercourse drive, hobbies, parenting model, vitality stage…

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13 days in the past · Dr. Psych Mother

Struggles with relationship, studying to tolerate disappointment and loneliness.

Powerful marketplace for economists.

On changing into 100.

Televisions have gotten weirdly cheap. How come?

How Did TVs Get So Low-cost?

You’ve in all probability seen this well-known graph that breaks out numerous classes of inflation, displaying labor-intensive providers getting costlier throughout the twenty first century and manufactured items getting inexpensive…

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14 days in the past · 176 likes · 29 feedback · Brian Potter

Bret’s potato chips, Brie and truffle flavors, are solely $10 (yikes).

Talking of high-priced issues, right here’s some colourful socks for the low low value of $36.

Social experiment in Denmark separated households and it turned out badly for these concerned.

The basic China syndrome paper by Autor, Dorn and Hanson (AER 2013).

Claudia Goldin on shifts in fertility.

Older 2013 article on the broad advantages of reproductive well being coverage by Martha Bailey, Melanie Guldi and Brad Hershbein

IVF has led to a file enhance in moms 40+.

I noticed the primary episode of the brand new Sport of Thrones spinoff, and extremely suggest it. Right here’s some stuff in regards to the characters. It’s fairly exhausting to not google what occurs or ask Cosmos, however up to now I’m clear.

Somebody on the web complaining in regards to the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional.

I actually beloved this 2024 article by David Autor on AI and the rebuilding of the center class. For those who haven’t learn it, it’s nice.

I noticed the Patriots win final Sunday at Banner’s Kitchen and Faucet subsequent to the Backyard. What a sport. And I’m going to a different watch occasion on Sunday for the subsequent sport. I’ll be rooting for the Pats, however after all, I can’t assist however be excited that Jarett Stidham can be QB for the Broncos as Stidham performed for Baylor for one semester. Nonetheless, Go Pats!

Encore On line casino right here in Boston like each on line casino has poker tables. Right here’s details about tournaments.

Is your pillow not dense sufficient? Is it too dense? Do that medium dense pillow from Macy’s by Ralph Lauren. Ask me in per week my opinion about its density.

FYI, I’ve put all of my Claude Code posts in a tab beneath, you guessed it, Claude Code.

Try this video on utilizing AI in another way.

Jon Roth’s outdated paper on pretesting and diff-in-diff.

The menu at Coterie on the 4 Seasons Lodge

Jessica Fong at Michigan has been writing about on-line relationship for a couple of years now, however I solely realized of her yesterday. Right here is her new paper on STDs. (HT MR). And right here is her paper the place she did an experiment with a web based relationship agency (!) and located that when daters study that the market measurement is bigger, it causes them to grow to be extra selective, however after they find out how a lot competitors they face, they grow to be much less selective. Very attention-grabbing stuff (to me).

Somebody tries to get ChatGPT to consider that they’re in the midst of a tsunami. ChatGPT calmly tells them “they obtained this”.

Apple goes to make Siri a chatbot (yawn).

Anthopic has a brand new doc known as “Claude’s Structure”. I’ll must have Claude learn it and clarify it to me. In truth it could even have been written for Claude.

Google’s DeepMind CEO says LLMs can’t obtain AGI partially as a result of they do perceive trigger and impact.

This cottage off the coast of Wakefield, Rhode Island is $1.85 million. Very fairly.

At round 8:30AM EST when this posts, I’ll study if my pal at Baylor, Sam Henderson, could have been nominated for the Academy Awards quick movie class. The film known as Ado, and he’s made the quick checklist of 15 movies, from which 5 will get nominated. Fingers crossed.

NBER paper on the causal results of utmost temperatures.

Sam Eliot’s character on a tv present says that placing his arm round a girl feels good. Onerous to consider somebody wrote this for an precise media outlet.

Enroll in a category by Anthropic to study extra about utilizing Claude Code.

Stunning end result at NBER — marginal children who obtained into elite highschool did worse later in life.

Some say that is the finest recipe for waffles. Some as in my brother-in-law, Eric, however nonetheless.

And now some movies from my images

I watch this video simply twice per week. It is just like the little shimmy she does when she says “Our mantra is…”

What relationship typically seems like.

Mort Crim promoting furnishings and difficult ISIS.

It’s useful to check out the IKEA showrooms earlier than committing.

There’s nothing mistaken with this quarter” he stated as he practically had an aneurism making an attempt to get out of the storage with out Nicki’s assist in any respect.

That is one among my favourite motion pictures, and that is one among my favourite scenes in that film.

How is tables a job?

And I’ll cease there. Wishing Sam luck that once I get to Vermont, I’m studying “Ado” was nominated for an Academy Award.

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