Periklis Daflos

OpenAI’s computing deals top $1tn Partners including Nvidia, AMD and Oracle have signed up to Sam Altman’s huge bet on the future of artificial intelligence

The incredible numbers - an actual trillion of investment, via an unquoted start up - and circularities (Nvidia investing in OpenAI and Intel, OpenAi in AMD, billion dollar purchases paid with stock, the cash, where's the cash etc? - are just mind boggling

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Bonn is (close to) free regarding tuition if that helps

For once it‘s worth looking at the comment section here

Junge Inder in Deutschland: Das Geschäft mit den Studis Ritik Yadav und Shivam Kumar kamen zum Studium an einer Privat-Uni nach Deutschland. Jetzt arbeiten sie beim Lieferdienst und in der Gastro.

Sehr lesenswerter Artikel zur katastrophalen Lage von Studierenden aus Südasien an privaten deutschen Hochschulen taz.de/Junge-Inder-...

This graph shows labor productivity in Germany since 1970. The manufactoring sector is on top, the whole economy, services & construction is below. The index is set to 1991 = 100.

Crazy that this is in such a stark contrast to manufactoring labor productivity in Germany (not quite the same statistic though: different timeline & output per worker, from here: www.wirtschaftsdienst.eu/inhalt/jahr/... )

What’ll happen if we spend nearly $3tn on data centres no one needs? Nineties adults remember

Related reporting: www.ft.com/content/7052...

You can order these online through various online shops, here's an overview PDF with some shops on the third page: assets.adac.de/image/upload...

Screenshot from Positron showing code that connects to a database, and then highlights the connection in a Connections Pane and shows the data in a Data Explorer tab Here's the code: library(dplyr) # Connect with {connections}, which automatically adds this to the panel con <- connections::connection_open(duckdb::duckdb(), ":memory:") # Or do it manually with {DBI} # con <- DBI::dbConnect(duckdb::duckdb(), ":memory:") # connections::connection_view(con) # Add some stuff to the database copy_to(con, penguins, name = "penguins", overwrite = TRUE) copy_to(con, gapminder::gapminder, name = "gapminder", overwrite = TRUE) # Get stuff out of the database adelie_query <- tbl(con, I("penguins")) |> filter(species == "Adelie") # Check it out! It's SQL! show_query(adelie_query) # Actually run the query penguins_from_db <- adelie_query |> collect() penguins_from_db connections::connection_close(con) # Or this: # DBI::dbDisconnect(con)

Ooh, @posit.co's Positron is no longer in beta as of this week(!), and it recently added support for DuckDB databases in the Connections Pane positron.posit.co/connections-... - any db connection you add with {connections} shows up there—this is magical! #rstats

Why is Scandinavia the Most Gender Equal Place in the World?

My two part series weaves economic history, sociology, and my own qualitative research

1) www.ggd.world/p/why-is-sca...

2) www.ggd.world/p/why-is-sca...

I wonder what the results of this paper would look like today, after many years of speed optimizations in many programming languages www.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/com...

Are Employers Playing a Game of Monopsony? Labor&rsquo;s share of national income&nbsp;has fallen, and competition for workers may have something to do with it.

Very nice article on rising market power and the fall of the labour share www.chicagobooth.edu/review/are-e...

Olivier Blanchard argues that we should understand better the macroeconomics of the medium run, and I could not agree more. Since I have been working on this for a while, let me show you why this is a promising field for young researchers!

Not anymore :)

The Case Against Streaming TV Shows New streaming TV shows ask for a 20-30 hour time commitment. Unlike network TV, you will often be binge-ing alone and may never even get a pay-off (or the pay-off will suck).

Amazing piece on how recent TV shows haven't been that great, actually: www.readtrung.com/p/the-case-a...

The blog post linked at the end of this thread (and the thread itself) is a very nice summary of recent research on how cross-gender friendships affect gender equality, check it out!
The corresponding working paper can be found here: www.nber.org/papers/w33480

Drawing on different disciplines: macroeconomic agent-based models - Journal of Evolutionary Economics Macroeconomic modelling has been under intense scrutiny since the Great Financial Crisis, when serious shortcomings were exposed in the methodology used to understand the economy as a whole. Criticism...

See also this complementary paper on Macroeconomic ABM: doi.org/10.1007/s001...

An interdisciplinary model for macroeconomics Abstract. Macroeconomic modelling has been under intense scrutiny since the Great Financial Crisis, when serious shortcomings were exposed in the methodolo

After reading this paper, I don't understand why ABM hasn't found its way into modern Macro yet, especially as ABM is basically the definition of Microfoundations. doi.org/10.1093/oxre...

The same guy also has a wonderful Econ PhD placements dataset on his website btw: pablogguz.shinyapps.io/econphd_plac...

A map showing the absolute amount of German immigrants in different Spanish provinces. Surprisingly, there are quite a few German immigrants in e.g. Alicante, Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Málaga (besides of course Barcelona and Madrid), although one would think that all Germans would move to Mallorca/the Balearic Islands.

It looks like not all Germans living in Spain are living in Mallorca after all!
(Map created with a tool by Pablo García-Guzmán: pablogguz.shinyapps.io/dataviz_migr...)

Trying something new:
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"

It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social

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Auf Anhieb vielleicht die "Bilder des Tages" der SZ? www.sueddeutsche.de/thema/Bilder

Discussion papers Discussion Papers On this page, you’ll find discussion papers from the Rockwool Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin) and Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), as well as early-access chap...

For anyone who's looking for (some of) the other chapters, they are all neatly organized here: www.rfberlin.com/discussion-p...

YouTube video by demonflyingfox Shrek - Redneck Fairytale (Official Music Video)

The cutting-edge version of this can be found here, a Shrek-Redneck song with an accompanying music video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppyF...