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Metascience of the Vesuvius Challenge
The Vesuvius Challenge is a million+ dollar contest to read 2,000 year old text from charcoal-papyri using particle accelerators and machine learning…
Mar 27
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Maxwell Tabarrok
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American Acceleration vs Development
Both is best but which is better?
Mar 20
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Maxwell Tabarrok
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Claude vs GPT
Claude does less but does it better
Mar 13
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Maxwell Tabarrok
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Boomer NIMBYs vs Zoomer NIMBYs
When someone opposes new construction in their neighborhood they give one of two explanations: This will lower property values! This will raise rents…
Mar 6
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Maxwell Tabarrok
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February 2024
Don't Endorse the Idea of Market Failure
Javier Milei and Econ 101
Feb 28
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Maxwell Tabarrok
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We Need Major, But Not Radical, FDA Reform
Fellow progress blogger Alex Telford and I have had a friendly back-and-forth going over FDA reform. Alex suggests incremental reforms to the FDA, which…
Feb 21
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Maxwell Tabarrok
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When Should Copyright Get Shorter?
Information goods have private costs and public benefits. Pharmaceutical research requires upfront investment from one firm, but once a certain compound…
Feb 14
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Maxwell Tabarrok
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A Puzzle in Voter Behavior
Why are old republicans against immigration?
Feb 7
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Maxwell Tabarrok
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January 2024
Practicing my Handwriting in 1439
Tyler Cowen’s latest Bloomberg column on the dangers of AI predicts, among other things, that AI will disrupt the current high status and earnings of…
Jan 31
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Maxwell Tabarrok
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Surgery Works Well Without The FDA
The best evidence against the FDA
Jan 24
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Maxwell Tabarrok
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Against the Burden of Knowledge
Why the most intuitive explanation for ideas getting harder to find is wrong
Jan 17
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Maxwell Tabarrok
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Land Reclamation is in the 9th Circle of Stagnation Hell
Land reclamation is a process where swamps, wetlands, or coastal waters are drained and filled to create more dry land. Despite being complex and…
Jan 10
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Maxwell Tabarrok
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