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Economist at the Hoover Institution; wrote The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and blogs as The Grumpy Economist.

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  When the Fed buys long-term Treasuries under QE and issues overnight debt, the result is equivalent to the Treasury having issued overnight debt.

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  In QE, the Treasury issued long-term bonds. The Fed bought up the long bonds, issued overnight debt, and passed the interest difference back to the Treasury. In the end, it is just as if the Treasury issued overnight debt in the first place.

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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  AI has passed nearly every human at finding security vulnerabilities, because the work is chaining together small flaws that are harmless on their own.

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  So the irony here is that when you look at that field, it seems like we've reached levels of intelligence that virtually no human can match because many of these security holes are about stringing combo moves together. You find one little vulnerability here that by itself might not be the worst thing in the world, but then you combine it with four others, and suddenly you have RCE, remote command execution. Humans who are able to do that are very rare.

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Chief product officer at the live-shopping marketplace Whatnot, previously chief product officer at Twitch and a product lead on growth at Twitter.

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  Agentic shopping will not take over commerce, because most shopping is low-intent — e-commerce has never passed twenty percent of American retail.

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  most of commerce in America isn't actually high intent. Like how many years are we into e-commerce now? Like 30 years into e-commerce and e-commerce has never exceeded 20% of retail spend in America.

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Professor of psychology at UCLA, where he studies human memory, attention and cognitive ageing, and author of Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging.

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  Alzheimer's pathology in the brain does not settle whether a person has dementia: the nuns' brains were full of plaques and tangles while they went on functioning normally.

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  and you found that these nuns, how they aged, some of them certainly when they passed away, their brains had these kind of hallmark signs of dementia, plaques and tangles, but behaviorally they were still high functioning. So, it's really interesting that the hardware shows what we see as dementia and specifically Alzheimer's disease, but their behavior uh was that of a fairly healthy cognitive person.

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Historian of the Renaissance at the University of Chicago and a science-fiction novelist; wrote Terra Ignota and Inventing the Renaissance.

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  Copyright was born out of the Inquisition: the record of having passed censorship was the first document proving an exclusive right to print.

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  and you may now use the actual Inquisition record of you having gone through censorship as the document to prove that you and only you have the right to print the book and therefore you can sue people for plagiarizing it or printing an unauthorized edition. And so, the very first version of copyright is the Inquisition.

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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  Peak programmer has passed: the economic value of writing code by hand has peaked, and Jevons' paradox will not bail every programmer out.

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  It may no longer have as much economic value as it once did. I think that I'm quite convinced is true that we perhaps have seen the peak.

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  So, I do think it is correct for the average programmer to think maybe we've seen the best of the golden days.

Director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the A Wealth of Common Sense blog and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Michael Batnick.

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  The Four Things That Matter Most

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  Someone recommended this book after my brother passed away. I didn’t want to read a bunch of books about grief, but this one struck a chord. I wish I had read it before he died.

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Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.

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  The one thing no science-fiction writer dared predict is that the Turing test would be passed and nobody would notice.

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  And you know what no sci-fi author dared to predict is that the Turing tests just passes by.

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Designer and co-founder of Lux, makers of Halide, Spectre and Kino; formerly a designer at Apple.

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  Opaque, inert, obstructive interface elements will become as niche as the full-screen command line once interfaces are infused with dynamic materials.

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  Opaque, inert and obstructive elements might occupy the same place as full-screen command line interfaces — a powerful niche UI that was a marker in history, passed on by the windowed environment of the multi-tasking, graphical user interface revolution.

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Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.

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  Personal History

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  That story is told in her riveting memoir Personal History, which came out in 1997—just a few years before she passed away—and won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

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Writes Where's Your Ed At and hosts Better Offline; runs a tech PR firm, and argues at length that the AI business does not add up.

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  The modern executive is symbolic: what gets rewarded is the appearance of doing work rather than any output anyone can measure.

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  We live in the era of the symbolic executive, when "being good at stuff" matters far less than the appearance of doing stuff, where "what's useful" is dictated not by outputs or metrics that one can measure but rather the vibes passed between managers and executives that have worked their entire careers to escape the world of work.

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Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.

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  Remote workers are often passed over for opportunities in favor of less-qualified local colleagues

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  Opportunities can be given to local workers despite the remote worker being more qualified, or even number one in the world in that area.

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Founder of the toy manufacturer Viahart; writes about manufacturing, importing and why bringing production back to America is harder than it sounds.

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  Technological capability has to be practised to be kept: a country that stops making something forgets how.

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  The people who knew how to build and repair molds have either passed away or are long retired.

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Writer on a lost civilisation of the Ice Age; wrote Fingerprints of the Gods and presented Ancient Apocalypse. Archaeologists reject the claims, which he disputes at length.

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  The same afterlife journey along the Milky Way turns up in cultures too distant in space and time to have shared it, so it is an inheritance from one remote common source rather than a coincidence.

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  And I don’t feel that that can be a coincidence. I feel that what we are looking at is an inheritance of an idea, a legacy that’s been passed down from a remote common source to cultures all around the world, and that has taken on a life of its own within those cultures.

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Neuroscientist at UC Davis; studies memory and wrote Why We Remember.

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  In a monotonous stretch of life the days crawl and the weeks vanish, because the sense of how much time passed is built out of what you can remember happening.

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  Almost everyone in the class said that the days were moving by slower. Then I would say, “Okay, so do you feel like the weeks are passing by slower, faster, or the same?” The majority of them said that the weeks were passing by faster. According to the laws of physics, I don’t think that makes any sense, but according to memory, it did because what happened was people were doing the same thing over and over in the same context.

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Research scientist at Meta in Berlin working on multilingual models and evaluation; led the multilingual team at Cohere and was a research scientist at Google DeepMind before that.

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  Reliance on public benchmark results for evaluating AI models will decrease over time.

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  The time when benchmarks lasted multiple decades has passed. Going forward, we will rely less on public benchmark results.

  The Evolving Landscape of LLM Evaluationruder.io

Historian of Ukraine at Harvard; wrote The Gates of Europe, Chernobyl and The Russo-Ukrainian War.

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  The right question about the Cold War is not what we did wrong but what we did so right that seventy years passed without a world war.

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  The right question to ask is how did it happen? What did we do so right that for now more than 70 years, we don’t have a world war? How come that after World War I, World War II came within 20 years?

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Author and clean-energy analyst who writes on solar cost curves.

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  Solar's future price should be predicted from how much has been built, not from how much time has passed.

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  We can use the last decade to predict the future prices of solar power. Not by looking at the cost of solar as a function of time, but by looking at the cost of solar as a function of cumulative scale of the solar industry.

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Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.

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  Every website needs HTTPS, including a static site with no login and nothing sensitive on it.

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  So that's precisely what I've done - intercepted my own traffic passed over an insecure connection and put together a string of demos in a 24-minute video explaining why HTTPS is necessary on a static website.

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