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Saturday assorted links
[[{“value”:”1. AI protection against epilepsy? 2. “Well the latest DeepSeek is very satisfying from an humanities perspective. The trick to generalize RL is replacing scalar grades with… source criticism (qualitative principles and critiques).” Link here. 3. Redrawing India’s electoral map (FT). 4. Build with Tract, an EV project that failed. 5. “How do you individualize…
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In Defense of Econ 101
[[{“value”:”People sometimes dismiss basic economic reasoning, “that’s just Econ 101!” yet most policymakers couldn’t pass the exam. Here’s an apropos bit from our excellent textbook, Modern Principles of Economics. Do you shop at Giant, Safeway, or the Piggly Wiggly? If you do, you run a trade deficit with those stores. That is, you buy more…
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In Defense of Econ 101
[[{“value”:”People sometimes dismiss basic economic reasoning, “that’s just Econ 101!” yet most policymakers couldn’t pass the exam. Here’s an apropos bit from our excellent textbook, Modern Principles of Economics. Do you shop at Giant, Safeway, or the Piggly Wiggly? If you do, you run a trade deficit with those stores. That is, you buy more…
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In Defense of Econ 101
[[{“value”:”People sometimes dismiss basic economic reasoning, “that’s just Econ 101!” yet most policymakers couldn’t pass the exam. Here’s an apropos bit from our excellent textbook, Modern Principles of Economics. Do you shop at Giant, Safeway, or the Piggly Wiggly? If you do, you run a trade deficit with those stores. That is, you buy more…
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In Defense of Econ 101
[[{“value”:”People sometimes dismiss basic economic reasoning, “that’s just Econ 101!” yet most policymakers couldn’t pass the exam. Here’s an apropos bit from our excellent textbook, Modern Principles of Economics. Do you shop at Giant, Safeway, or the Piggly Wiggly? If you do, you run a trade deficit with those stores. That is, you buy more…
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In Defense of Econ 101
[[{“value”:”People sometimes dismiss basic economic reasoning, “that’s just Econ 101!” yet most policymakers couldn’t pass the exam. Here’s an apropos bit from our excellent textbook, Modern Principles of Economics. Do you shop at Giant, Safeway, or the Piggly Wiggly? If you do, you run a trade deficit with those stores. That is, you buy more…
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My 1979 trip to Oxford and London
[[{“value”:”In my recent post on my Freiburg year abroad, I mentioned that my first time leaving the country was a trip to England. Somehow I was accepted into a multi-week economics course at Oxford. Of course it was not the real Oxford, just some program for foreigners held on Oxford campus. I didn’t much care…
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My 1979 trip to Oxford and London
[[{“value”:”In my recent post on my Freiburg year abroad, I mentioned that my first time leaving the country was a trip to England. Somehow I was accepted into a multi-week economics course at Oxford. Of course it was not the real Oxford, just some program for foreigners held on Oxford campus. I didn’t much care…
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My 1979 trip to Oxford and London
[[{“value”:”In my recent post on my Freiburg year abroad, I mentioned that my first time leaving the country was a trip to England. Somehow I was accepted into a multi-week economics course at Oxford. Of course it was not the real Oxford, just some program for foreigners held on Oxford campus. I didn’t much care…
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My 1979 trip to Oxford and London
[[{“value”:”In my recent post on my Freiburg year abroad, I mentioned that my first time leaving the country was a trip to England. Somehow I was accepted into a multi-week economics course at Oxford. Of course it was not the real Oxford, just some program for foreigners held on Oxford campus. I didn’t much care…