~marginalrevolution | Bookmarks (568)
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The Black-Scholes-Merton Options Pricing Equation - Marginal REVOLUTION
A superb video on the history and mathematics of options pricing from Veritasium. The post The...
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Your friendly AI assistant (it's happening) - Marginal REVOLUTION
Klarnas AI assistant, powered by @OpenAI, has in its first 4 weeks handled 2.3 m customer...
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19th century British economic thought (another outline for my class) - Marginal REVOLUTION
1760-1830, typically considered peak of Industrial Revolution Malthus, first decade of the 19th century Ricardo’s Principles,...
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It's happening - Marginal REVOLUTION
Is DNA all you need? In new work, we report Evo, a genomic foundation model that...
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Tuesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Dan Klein responds to my Casablanca review. Of course my view is that what Dan...
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Genetic Insurance - Marginal REVOLUTION
Genetic testing identifies disease risk, enabling individuals to dodge environmental triggers, optimize treatments, and improve planning....
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Monopolized organ collection - Marginal REVOLUTION
The nation’s 56 organ procurement organizations collect organs — mainly kidneys — from deceased donors at...
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Do high interest rates get people down? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Unemployment is low and inflation is falling, but consumer sentiment remains depressed. This has confounded economists,...
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What international issues become national interests worth fighting for, and why? - Marginal REVOLUTION
That sentence starts the abstract, here is the rest of it: Contrary to conventional wisdom, I...
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Monday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Sociopaths remain underrated (NYT). 2. Claims about Asian birth rates, speculative but not to be...
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The Maniac - Marginal REVOLUTION
I enjoyed Benjamin’s Labatut’s The Maniac. Conventionally regarded as a “biography” of John von Neumann but...
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How I listen to music - Marginal REVOLUTION
Ian Leslie writes to me: I’m wondering, have you ever done a post about how you...
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Solve for the equilibrium? - Marginal REVOLUTION
At $US15,000, BYD’s new Qin EV is already being touted as a “Corolla killer”, as the...
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Sunday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Military lessons from the Ukraine war. Very good piece. 2. Merve Emre. 3. Rootclaim, lab...
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What should I ask Fareed Zakaria? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is Fareed’s home page, here is Wikipedia: Fareed Rafiq Zakaria…is an Indian-American journalist, political commentator, and...
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Claims about Iran (from the comments) - Marginal REVOLUTION
I’ve chatted with a lot of Iranians online in the past few years (they’re in Iran)....
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Saturday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. “In sports, South Korean women generally outnumber men in the stands.” (NYT) 2. Why don’t...
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Why don't nations buy and sell territory more? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Egypt has agreed to a $35bn deal with the United Arab Emirates to develop the town of Ras el-Hekma...
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Hazlett on T-Mobile/Sprint - Marginal REVOLUTION
Tom Hazlett whose op-ed on the T-Mobile Sprint merger I quoted earlier writes me: A few...
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Shruti Rajagopalan interviews Doug Irwin - Marginal REVOLUTION
Doug of course is one of the top trade economists. Here is the audio, video, and...
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Was Satoshi Hal Finney? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Working from the new batch of released Satoshi emails, here are some claims about the evidence....
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Grimes on Gemini images - Marginal REVOLUTION
I am retracting my statements about the gemini art disaster. It is in fact a masterpiece...
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Friday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Is dancing the best treatment for depression? Limited data, speculative. 2. Tom Cruise will use...
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Access to Medical Data Saves Lives - Marginal REVOLUTION
ProPublica: In January, the Biden administration pledged to increase public access to a wide array of...