Stories by yorwba

China overbuilt high-speed rail, says leading economic geographer

Improving Generative Ad Text on Facebook Using Reinforcement Learning

The gains from trade are not the gains from trade

Radial Attention: Sparse Attention with Energy Decay for Long Video Generation

LayerPeeler: Autoregressive Peeling for Layer-Wise Image Vectorization

The Common Pile v0.1: An 8TB Dataset of Public Domain and Openly Licensed Text

Evidence-based policy is hard when social science journals publish poor research

Hardware testing automation: a status update

Heritability: Five Battles

BYD, "Slave-gate" and the soul search about China's cutthroat industrial model

Scoring my predictions about self driving cars, robots, AI/ML, and space travel

The Misperception Spiral in US-China tech policy competition

Why Recursion Pharmaceuticals abandoned cell painting for brightfield imaging

Why the Global Standard Deviation Statistic does not filter out the noise [pdf]

Machine Failing: How Software Development Flaws Contribute to Military Accidents

Knuth–Bendix Completion Algorithm

Why We Shut Down

Speculating on what is next for Ctrl Labs' wristband neural interface

VoteMatch Europe

Notes on El Salvador

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