mjohn

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by mjohn 1y ago
That's a bit unfair. The Baumol effect is well known to most people in the author's audience. If you had clicked on the link to his book you would have found out that it's available for free: https://www.mercatus.o
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by mjohn 3y ago
Sure, why not, I'm just thinking out loud to be honest and am probably biased towards feeling quite comfortable using something like ChatGPT. I don't ask ChatGPT to write code for me but regularly use it to explore, a bit like a r
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by mjohn 3y ago
I've never tried it, but in the age of AI why not ask candidates to interact with ChatGPT to solve a problem? In my (limited) interviewing experience the good candidates were the ones who had a good mental model for solving novel probl
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Blue Screen of Death? Obsolescence and Structural Change in the Computer Age(papers.ssrn.com)
4 points by mjohn 4y ago|0 comments
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by mjohn 5y ago
https://archive.li/OfcAq
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San Francisco is scaring away the tech crowd(ft.com)
9 points by mjohn 5y ago|1 comments
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by mjohn 5y ago
https://archive.li/8iyD2
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by mjohn 5y ago
https://archive.is/FFrU5
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For Tesla, Facebook and Others, AI’s Flaws Are Getting Harder to Ignore(bloomberg.com)
132 points by mjohn 5y ago|182 comments
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London House Prices Surge in Places Where More People Go Hungry(bloomberg.com)
2 points by mjohn 5y ago|1 comments
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by mjohn 5y ago
No, because it's often very hard to estimate until you're actually working on something. It's common to get a consensus estimate that something is "easy" only for some poor developer to be left with something that i
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The Grim Reality of Jobs in Robotics and AI(alanwinfield.blogspot.com)
3 points by mjohn 5y ago|0 comments
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Why Immigration Drives Innovation(evonomics.com)
2 points by mjohn 6y ago|1 comments
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by mjohn 6y ago
In the UK there are regulations that require casinos and other gambling venues to block access if a problem gambler doesn't show restraint. It's much like how we would expect a barkeeper to tell a alcoholic who has had too much th
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Threat modelling case study: bicycles(calpaterson.com)
25 points by mjohn 6y ago|12 comments
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by mjohn 6y ago
In economics we would call the latter a Pareto improvement - ie an efficiency improvement without any trade off
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by mjohn 6y ago
That's a bit of a simplification. From £9.5k to £50k you pay 12% national insurance in addition to income tax, so it's really 32% not 20% tax. Over £50k you pay 2% national insurance. Your employer will also be paying 13.8% nation
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In the months my husband and I were apart, the world changed completely(theguardian.com)
1 points by mjohn 6y ago|0 comments
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by mjohn 6y ago
I pretty much agree with you, if the client doesn't have any in-house expertise and stays hands-off then you get the scenario I described but outsourcing can work if it's in addition to in-house expertise. In this case the client
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by mjohn 6y ago
I recently joined a company where my main task is to modernise a business critical application built and supported by Wipro over ten years ago. Everything is still on .Net 3.0 (first released in 2007), and despite hundreds of pages of docum
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by mjohn 6y ago
Privacy is not just relevant to advertising. There are a huge number of research opportunities in the social sciences that could benefit and can help make the world better.
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by mjohn 6y ago
Could be differences in risk tolerance. A portfolio of government bonds, for example, would be expected to have a lower return than the S&P.
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Under Armour dumped an app(bloomberg.com)
68 points by mjohn 7y ago|52 comments
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Stop Hiring Data Scientists(towardsdatascience.com)
1 points by mjohn 7y ago|0 comments
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Do Markets Make Us Fair, Trusting, and Cooperative, or Bring Out the Worst in Us(evonomics.com)
1 points by mjohn 7y ago|0 comments
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We're Teaching Coding All Wrong(bloomberg.com)
4 points by mjohn 7y ago|0 comments
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by mjohn 7y ago
I'd highly recommend How Behaviour Spreads by David Centola for anyone interested in this topic. His lecture at the Santa Fe Institute is also worth watching as a summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0fDcUJMzkI
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by mjohn 7y ago
It's worth bearing in mind that this is not a study on educational outcomes, but is assessing how useful value-added models are for quantifying teacher performance. While the biggest correlative factor may well be socioeconomic status,
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by mjohn 7y ago
I don't think pedantry about the name is a useful contribution to the conversation. While it's true that Economic Sciences prize is not a "real" Nobel prize, it is commonly referred to as a Nobel prize. Interestingly, th
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by mjohn 7y ago
It's pretty surprising that a service with access to all of your internal Slack conversations doesn't have a privacy policy on their website. Makes me wonder to what extent they've thought through issues like GDPR.

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