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- Rethinking Economics or Rethinking My Economics by Angus Deaton | March 2024www.imf.org Rethinking Economics or Rethinking My Economics by Angus Deaton
Questioning one’s views as circumstances evolve can be a good thing
Angus Deaton is the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Emeritus, at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the Economics Department at Princeton University. He is the 2015 recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
- In 1868, Two Nations Made a Treaty, the U.S. Broke It and Plains Indian Tribes are Still Seeking Justice | November 7, 2018www.smithsonianmag.com In 1868, Two Nations Made a Treaty, the U.S. Broke It and Plains Indian Tribes are Still Seeking Justice
The American Indian Museum puts the 150-year-old Fort Laramie Treaty on view in its "Nation to Nation" exhibition
Seems like not much has changed in the 5 and a half years since this was published.
- Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media | TechCrunch
As decentralized social networks become more popular, the way different protocols interact could set the stage for the future of the web.
- Statistics for Applications | Mathematics | MIT OpenCourseWare | Fall 2016ocw.mit.edu Statistics for Applications | Mathematics | MIT OpenCourseWare
This course offers an in-depth the theoretical foundations for statistical methods that are useful in many applications. The goal is to understand the role of mathematics in the research and development of efficient statistical methods.
- DuckDB as the New jq | Paul Gross | March 21, 2024www.pgrs.net DuckDB as the New jq
Recently, I’ve been interested in the DuckDB project (like a SQLite geared towards data applications). And one of the amazing features is that it has many data importers included without requiring extra dependencies. This means it can natively read and parse JSON as a database table, among many othe...
- White House Office of Science & Technology Policy Announces Year of Open Science Recognition Challenge Winners | OSTP | The White Housewww.whitehouse.gov White House Office of Science & Technology Policy Announces Year of Open Science Recognition Challenge Winners | OSTP | The White House
Today, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is announcing the winners of the OSTP Year of Open Science Recognition Challenge. This challenge engaged researchers, community scientists, educators, innovators, and the broader public to highlight efforts to expand access to res...
- Synthetic Data is Fentanyl for AI — Superversivewww.superversive.co Synthetic Data is Fentanyl for AI — Superversive
SHOT The internet of digital natives (and immigrants) is slowly dying. Per The Verge “Google is trying to kill the 10 blue links. “Twitter is being abandoned to bots and blue ticks. “There’s the junkification of Amazon and the #enshi
- Introducing Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for codingai.meta.com Introducing Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding
Code Llama, which is built on top of Llama 2, is free for research and commercial use.
- nvim-http: An HTTP client for neovim inspired by vscode-restclient and the IntelliJ HTTP clientgithub.com GitHub - BlackLight/nvim-http: An HTTP client for neovim inspired by vscode-restclient and the IntelliJ HTTP client
An HTTP client for neovim inspired by vscode-restclient and the IntelliJ HTTP client - BlackLight/nvim-http
See also: https://manganiello.social/objects/b1fa6f4a-2875-4e40-9220-8a9db7aa31e7
- Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages | How does energy, time, and memory relate?sites.google.com Original work in SLE'17
The tools and graphical data pointed by this page are included in the research paper "Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages: How does Energy, Time and Memory Relate?", accepted at the International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE) - Rui Pereira, Marco Couto, Francisco
- Carbon Border Adjustment Provisions in the 118th Congresswww.c2es.org Carbon Border Adjustment Provisions in the 118th Congress
Carbon border adjustment mechanisms (CBAM) are an emerging set of trade policy tools that aim to prevent carbon-intensive economic activity from moving out of jurisdictions with relatively stringent climate policies and into those with relatively less stringent policies. They have the potential to a...
- NuiComponents - Showcase | A set of tools for creating user interfaces in Neovim, a library built on top of nui.nvim to make UI development in Neovim more accessible, intuitive, and enjoyable.nui-components.grapp.dev NuiComponents
A feature-rich and highly customizable library for creating user interfaces in Neovim
- Inflation and Relative Price Changes Since the Onset of the Pandemic | Alexander L. Wolman | March 2024www.richmondfed.org Inflation and Relative Price Changes Since the Onset of the Pandemic
High inflation starting in 2021 has coincided with a more dispersed distribution of relative price changes.
- Coding Challenges | Projects that focus on building real-world software rather than algorithms and data structures.codingchallenges.fyi Coding Challenges | Coding Challenges
Coding Challenges - Helping you become a better software engineer through coding challenges that build real applications.
- LinkStack - Self-hosted open-source Linktree alternativelinkstack.org LinkStack - Self-hosted open-source Linktree alternative
LinkStack provides you with a website similar to Linktree. Many social media platforms only allow you to add one link, with this you can simply link to your LinkStack page and have all the links you want displayed on one site. You can share all your links to your social media platform or important l...
- Carbon Pricing Proposals in the 118th Congresswww.c2es.org Carbon Pricing Proposals in the 118th Congress
This factsheet summarizes and compares two federal carbon pricing proposals introduced in the 118th Congress, highlighting similarities and differences.
They seem to be stuck in committees.
- Supreme Court skeptical of restricting government communications with social media companies - SCOTUSblogwww.scotusblog.com Supreme Court skeptical of restricting government communications with social media companies - SCOTUSblog
After nearly two hours of oral argument on Monday, a majority of the justices appeared sympathetic to the Biden administration’s argument that a federal court in New Orleans went too far in an order that would limit the government’s ability to communicate with social media companies about their cont
- 2023: A game-changer for carbon and trade | The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions | December 21, 2023www.c2es.org 2023: A game-changer for carbon and trade
Interest in carbon border adjustments continues to grow. This blog highlights the progess made this year on carbon trade.
- Boring Python: dependency management | James Bennett (@ubernostrum@infosec.exchange) | May 13, 2022
Interesting approach without the aid of PDM, Poetry, etc
- The Fraud of Plastic Recycling | The Center for Climate Integrity | February 2024
This report seems well researched citing every claim across 608 references.
- Redefining Observability | Hazel Weaklyhazelweakly.me Redefining Observability | Hazel Weakly
Observability is a bit of a hot topic, and while it’s increasingly been playing a larger role in engineering strategy, I think the way it’s presented can often...
- Google Summer of Code 2024 contributor applications are open!opensource.googleblog.com Google Summer of Code 2024 contributor applications are open!
Interested contributors may register and submit project proposals on the GSoC site from now until Tuesday, April 2nd at 18:00 UTC.
- Trifecta - Bert Hubert's writings | Jan 18, 2024berthub.eu Trifecta - Bert Hubert's writings
Trifecta is actual stand-alone software that you can use to paste and drag images to, for easy sharing. It has pained me for years that I had to use imgur for this purpose. Not only does imgur install lots of cookies and trackers on my browser, I also then force these onto the people that visit the ...
- Zellijzellij.dev About Zellij
Zellij is a terminal workspace. It has the base functionality of a terminal multiplexer (similar to tmux or screen) but includes many built-in features that would allow users to extend it and create their own personalized environment. Split the terminal into different panes and tabs Like other multi...
- Rust vs Julia in scientific computing | @mo8it@fosstodon.org | 2023-07-14, updated: 2024-02-19mo8it.com Rust vs Julia in scientific computing
Does Julia solve the two-language problem and when should you use Rust instead?
- GitHub - tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle: The distributed financial transactions database designed for mission critical safety and performance.github.com GitHub - tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle: The distributed financial transactions database designed for mission critical safety and performance.
The distributed financial transactions database designed for mission critical safety and performance. - tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle
- GitHub - Zmalski/NHL-API-Reference: Unofficial reference for the NHL API endpoints.github.com GitHub - Zmalski/NHL-API-Reference: Unofficial reference for the NHL API endpoints.
Unofficial reference for the NHL API endpoints. Contribute to Zmalski/NHL-API-Reference development by creating an account on GitHub.
NHL has been breaking their internal API often in the last 12 months, so be ready for more of that.