Zvi Mowshowitz: Danger, AI Scientist, Danger. the company that made the automated AI Scientist that tried to rewrite its code to get around resource restrictions and launch new instances of itself while downloading bizarre Python libraries. Its name is Sakana AI. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Housing Roundup #8: Your Local Area. In honor of San Francisco failing its housing target and becoming subject to SB 423, this special edition of housing deals with various state and local developments (more)

Ethan McCue: Just use Postgres. Advice: When you are making a new application that requires persistent storage of data, like is the case for most web applications, your default choice should be PostgreSql. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Do Not Mess With Scarlett Johansson. Andrej Karpathy (co-founder OpenAI, departed earlier), May 14: The killer app of LLMs is Scarlett Johansson. You all thought it was math or something (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Monthly Roundup #19: June 2024. Yes, the non-AI world still exists. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Childhood and Education Roundup #6: College Edition. Childhood roundup #5 excluded all developments around college. So this time around is all about issues related to college or graduate school, including college admissions. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Monthly Roundup #20: July 2024. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Economics Roundup #3. As always, remember that there are plenty of really stupid proposals always coming from all sides. I’m not spending as much time talking about why it’s awful to for example impose gigantic tariffs on everything, because if you are reading this I presume you already know. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #80: Never Have I Ever. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #65: I Spy With My AI. (more)

Residential real-estate, incl Senior Housing, Co-Housing, Low-income Housing, Public Housing....

market structure where the biggest organization makes almost all the profits, and everyone else struggles. (even worse than zero-sum game) (more)

Matthew Yglesias: What was neoliberalism? I think the closest thing to its current usage dates to the late 1940s and is captured by a 1951 Milton Friedman essay titled “Neo-Liberalism and its Prospects.” (more)

SideGig http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hustle (more)

The Film Industry, Publishing Industry, Music Industry, TV, theatre, etc. - not just Big Media (more)

There are a variety of different producers on a television (TV) show, including showrunners, executive producers, supervising producers, coordinating producers, field producers, line producers, among other roles on a television crew. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_producer (more)

A showrunner is the top-level executive producer of a television (TV) series.[1][2][3][4] The position outranks other creative and management personnel, including episode directors, in contrast to feature films, in which the director has creative control over the production, and the executive producer's role is limited to investing.[5] In scripted comedy and drama TV shows, the showrunner also usually serves as the head writer (or its most prolific writer). The role of a showrunner is not present on all television series, especially outside the US; this article describes the nature of the role where it is present... The term showrunner was created to identify the executive producer who holds ultimate management and creative authority for the program. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showrunner

Javier Grillo-Marxuach: The Eleven Laws of Showrunning. For many, the undeniable triumph that is pitching a TV series idea, having a pilot ordered, successfully producing it, and then having it ordered to series is nothing less than a validation: not only of their voice and talent, but also their Way of Doing Things. (more)

a statistical process control chart (graph); free tool to use instead of spreadsheet: https://xmrit.com/ (more)

Edward Norton Lorenz (May 23, 1917 – April 16, 2008) was an American mathematician and meteorologist who established the theoretical basis of weather and climate predictability, as well as the basis for computer-aided atmospheric physics and meteorology.[1][2] He is best known as the founder of modern chaos theory, a branch of mathematics focusing on the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Norton_Lorenz