Nic Duquette

Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches For Grandkids

Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches For Grandkids

“Experts credit the universal dose with the near elimination of hepatitis B in babies—from about 16,000 cases per year to fewer than 20.“ 🧪🛟

I am increasingly convinced the optimal number of laptops per child is 0 (or at least much lower than 1).

From the latest Journal of Public Economics issue:

doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...

While the point about regulatory hassles and complexity is probably right, it is crazy to imply that kei cars are unusually dangerous when the US is the outlier in deaths per VMT

Radio reminds me of my home far away (where there is radio)

You would have to turn off the internet completely, as AI is now woven into everything so deeply. Which might be part of the pitch, or effectively impossible. A school with landlines and a library with paper books and airgapped computers that serve cached Wikipedia and academic journals

The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.

if you do even moderately computationally demanding tasks, get a GPU - even an older one.

testing scripts and benchmarks on a 5070 series here, 2060 from @detectiveenters.bsky.social in replies, and 1070 here apoorvalal.github.io/lalgorithms/...

ICE heads to Minnesota as the triple dip polar vortex starts

How do you like the framework? im considering Linux for a future machine

fuck

This is the entirety of his bio on the official Vandy roster

Jimmy Sexton’s a hard money guy and decided he needed to shake up the Fed Chair race:

USC announces adoption of ChatGPT

Calling it, the peak of the bubble is today

I have had this wrong my entire life. I always thought PVI was an estimate of two-way vote margin.

Bought a few years' worth of holiday-themed international forever stamps, in a bold bet on the survival of the US Postal Service, the globe, and the holidays

'It's a win-win': How Toronto is planning 20km of new bike lanes without defying Ford The City of Toronto is also planning $30-million worth of infrastructure upgrades, including bike lanes, cycle tracks, and trails.

Salute to Toronto for this pivot:

Ontario premier Doug Ford banned Toronto from building new bike infrastructure that replaces car lanes.

Toronto's response: Narrow but retain existing car lanes, freeing enough space to keep installing bike lanes. (Better yet, narrower traffic lanes are safer.)

Take control of the Federal Reserve and slash interest rates at the right time to have a boom going full swing but the hyperinflation just getting started on Election Day

Wow.

The AEA has issued a life time ban against Larry Summers.
www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...

Zillow dropped climate risk scores. Redfin kept them.

Why? Our research shows these scores are useful to homebuyers.

Ideally, we'd have information on rising insurance costs. But until insurance disclosure rules change, we will continue to provide the best info available.

weird

*TRUMP REFERS TO KEVIN HASSETT AS 'POTENTIAL' FED CHAIR

Clean electricity is officially growing fast enough in China that the level of fossil generation is falling, even as overall demand rises. They've gotten over the hump.

People used to say, with great confidence, that variable renewables could never safely provide more than 5% of grid power. That estimate has crept up ever since, though the "great confidence" part never wavers.

Anyway, about China ...

she and Webster have three days to save Orthographville and its beloved tree lighting ceremony from the machinations of OttoCorrect, an evil corporation that wants the town to pivot to video

With the semester ending, I did a focus group with my class today on what they liked and didn’t like in the course.

Got surprisingly positive student views on:

—my in-class device ban
—graded in-class writing assignments (my unimaginative way to beat AI)

Elizabeth Jennings Graham - New York Transit Museum 100 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a 24-year-old black New Yorker stood her ground on an omnibus. With courage and perseverance, she won the first recorded legal victory for…

Represented by Chester A. Arthur (who would later become U.S. President) the court ruled in her favor in 1855, creating a powerful catalyst in the fight for desegregation on all of New York's public transit vehicles. To learn more, visit nytransitmuseum.org/ElizabethJenningsGraham.

Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.

Don't look up!

Cal-SMU, a classic matchup in the Atlantic Coast Conference

Went down a Fred rabbit hole, and it looks like, as a % of population, we have more people employed in "Accounting, Tax Preparation, Bookkeeping, and Payroll Services" now (sept 2025) than we did in 1990 (link: fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1OjRj)

(spreadsheets didn't "kill" accounting)