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LinkFest 2018-07-16

LinkFest 2018-07-16

Ways to think about machine learning I've been a skeptic about artificial intelligence in general, and a critic of the ways the actual technology has been hyped. This is a pretty reasonable take from someone who is willing to invest a lot of money in machine learning. Machine

Linkfest 2018-07-09

The Good, the Pulp, and the Superversive – Introduction Superversive is a neologism intended to be the contrary of subversive. H. P. at Every Day Should Be Tuesday tries to figure out what the term is really getting at. While there is a small group of authors that like to describe

Linkfest 2018-06-18

Perhaps Monday is the new Friday around here. Conan the Barbarian: A Review, an Analysis, and a Little Bit of a Misunderstood and Improperly Played - While Talking About the Pulps I found this reading the Conan roundup from Monday. I also rate the 1982 Milius Conan higher than Rick

Linkfest 2018-06-11

I meant to get this one out last Friday. Ah well. How we can learn from the history of protectionism It is easy to find lots of economists who are down on protectionism, but the evidence turns out to be rather mixed on exactly what its effects are. There are

I have a beautiful dream

My first article published somewhere other than my own website is now up at Ordinary Times: I Have a Beautiful Dream I have a beautiful dream. My dream is that Flagstaff, my hometown, could become more beautiful as it grows. This is likely to seem a little strange to most

The Long View 2005-11-03: Taxes, Techno-Libs, Intifada

The same basic plan for fixing the US Federal tax system keeps coming up: get rid of deductions, and make the rates lower so the change is revenue neutral. And, it will always never happen, because far too many voters and donors have lots of long-term economic decisions made with