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From Fortran and Algol to Object-Oriented Languages (1993) (acm.org)

11 months ago | Bostonian | acm.org | newest

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Stanford Follows Harvard, Yale in Reinstating Standardized Tests (bloomberg.com)

11 months ago | Bostonian | bloomberg.com | frontpage

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San Francisco Fetes Trump on Post-Conviction Fundraising Tour (bloomberg.com)

11 months ago | Bostonian | bloomberg.com | newest

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A Natural-Gas Billionaire Bets on Greener Fossil Fuel (wsj.com)

11 months ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | newest

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Verdad Financial Markets Curriculum (verdadcap.com)

11 months ago | Bostonian | verdadcap.com | newest

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[flagged] E.U. Censorship Laws Mostly Suppress Legal Speech (reason.com)

11 months ago | Bostonian | reason.com | best

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Appeals Court Blocks Venture Firm's Grant Program for Black Women (wsj.com)

11 months ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | newest

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It's Crunchtime for a New Generation of Climate Startups (wsj.com)

11 months ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | newest

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Evaluating AI-Generated Code for C++, Fortran, Go, Java, Julia, Matlab, etc. (arxiv.org)

12 months ago | Bostonian | arxiv.org | newest

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To Address the Irreproducibility Crisis, Invest in Digital Archiving (jamesgmartin.center)

12 months ago | Bostonian | jamesgmartin.center | newest

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What went wrong with federal student loans? (ssrn.com)

12 months ago | Bostonian | ssrn.com | best

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The Sea Change on Crypto-Regulation (marginalrevolution.com)

12 months ago | Bostonian | marginalrevolution.com | newest

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The AI 'Safety Movement' Is Dead (bloomberg.com)

12 months ago | Bostonian | bloomberg.com | frontpage

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The International Criminal Court Just Saved Benjamin Netanyahu (politico.eu)

12 months ago | Bostonian | politico.eu | newest

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Are Poor Schools Underfunded? (reason.com)

12 months ago | Bostonian | reason.com | newest

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NYPD could access shops' surveillance cameras in real time under anti-theft plan (nypost.com)

12 months ago | Bostonian | nypost.com | frontpage

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Will AI replace doctors who read X-rays, or just make them better than ever? (apnews.com)

12 months ago | Bostonian | apnews.com | newest

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Labor Market Reforms and Corporate Innovation:The Effects of Salary History Bans (ssrn.com)

12 months ago | Bostonian | ssrn.com | newest

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The Scandalous Science Behind Nuclear Regulation (reason.com)

12 months ago | Bostonian | reason.com | frontpage

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Talking to an AI Chatbot: how to phrase questions to get the best responses (wsj.com)

12 months ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | newest

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What You Aren't Hearing About Marijuana's Health Effects (wsj.com)

12 months ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | newest

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Virtual Workers Are Here to Take Your Job–and Give You a Promotion (wsj.com)

12 months ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | newest

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Gad Saad's Musings Fuel Elon Musk's Nightmares (wsj.com)

12 months ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | newest

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Inventing Drugs Is One of the Most Exciting Uses of AI (bloomberg.com)

12 months ago | Bostonian | bloomberg.com | newest

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French AI Startup Mistral Taking on Silicon Valley Is Set to Stuff Its War Chest (wsj.com)

12 months ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | newest

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Academics Use Imaginary Data in Their Research (reason.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | reason.com | newest

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Households Wince at the Rising Price of Going Green (wsj.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | newest

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The Science Behind Why the World Is Getting Wetter (wsj.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | newest

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Not Even Artificial Intelligence Can Make Central Planning Work (reason.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | reason.com | newest

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The Case of the AI-Generated Giant Rat Penis (reason.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | reason.com | newest

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My Fake Amazon 'Workbook' (wsj.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | newest

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The AI-Generated Population Is Here, and They're Ready to Work (wsj.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | newest

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The AI Gadget That Can Make Your Life Better–and Two That Definitely Won't (wsj.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | newest

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Making Documents with Makefiles (johndcook.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | johndcook.com | newest

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FDA Once Again Stands Athwart Biomedical Innovation (reason.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | reason.com | newest

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AI Startups Have Plenty of Cash. They Often Don't yet Have a Business (wsj.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | newest

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In the AI Economy, There Will Be Zero Percent Unemployment (reason.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | reason.com | newest

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AC and AI Are Demanding More of the Power–Renewables Can't Keep Up (wsj.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | newest

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Choosing a Computer Language for a Project (johndcook.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | johndcook.com | newest

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Banning Noncompete Agreements Are an Illegal Power Grab from the FTC (reason.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | reason.com | newest

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A Big Panic over Tiny Plastics (reason.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | reason.com | newest

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Using national health records, an AI learns to predict risk of pancreatic cancer (harvardmagazine.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | harvardmagazine.com | newest

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Why Is the Federal Reserve Always Surprised by Inflation? (wsj.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | newest

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Could Virtual Cashiers Be the Future of the Restaurant Industry? (reason.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | reason.com | newest

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Self-study materials for parallel programming (hlrs.de)

a year ago | Bostonian | hlrs.de | newest

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Guide to Options Trading (moontower.ai)

a year ago | Bostonian | moontower.ai | newest

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Open-sourced central bank macroeconomic models (ssrn.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | ssrn.com | best

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Hamas May Not Have Enough Living Hostages for Cease-Fire Deal (wsj.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | newest

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Hallucinations of AI Science Models (johndcook.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | johndcook.com | newest

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Study: Social Media Don't Displace In-Person Hangouts for Teens (reason.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | reason.com | newest

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Hacking the Humanities: Academic humanists should stop doomscrolling about AI (jamesgmartin.center)

a year ago | Bostonian | jamesgmartin.center | newest

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Is Fortran "Memory Safe"? (fortran.uk)

a year ago | Bostonian | fortran.uk | newest

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When Protectionism Kills Talent (ssrn.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | ssrn.com | newest

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The Absurd Apple Antitrust Lawsuit (reason.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | reason.com | newest

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How To Choose A Romantic Partner: What psychology tells us (robkhenderson.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | robkhenderson.com | newest

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Robots Are Entering the Ukraine Battlefield Following Success in the Air and Sea (wsj.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | frontpage

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AWOL from Academics (harvardmagazine.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | harvardmagazine.com | newest

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Super Micro Computer has gone from an obscure server maker to $60B market cap (wsj.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | best

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New AI Chip [from Cerebras Systems] Makes Nvidia's H100 Look Puny in Comparison (barrons.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | barrons.com | newest

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Productivity Changes Around Childbirth: Evidence from the Mutual Fund Industry (ssrn.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | ssrn.com | newest

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Stop Constantly Asking Your Kids How They Feel (wsj.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | newest

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Ask HN: Do you document LLM-generated code as such?

a year ago | Bostonian | ycombinator.com | frontpage

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AI Talent Is in Demand as Other Tech Job Listings Decline (wsj.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | frontpage

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Google's woke Gemini AI fiasco shows its vulnerability to AI competitors (wsj.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | newest

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Majorities in most countries surveyed say social media is good for democracy (pewresearch.org)

a year ago | Bostonian | pewresearch.org | frontpage

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Counter-Strike, One of the Most Successful Videogames, Is a Gateway to Gambling (barrons.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | barrons.com | newest

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Dialectical Man: Two Books on Hegel (wsj.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | newest

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The Uber of Foster Care: CarePortal connects charities with families in need (wsj.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | newest

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Why slow computing was a better learning experience (craftofcoding.wordpress.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | wordpress.com | newest

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Beware the Top Google Search Result. It Might Be Wrong (wsj.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | newest

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Best practices in scientific software development (gjbex.github.io)

a year ago | Bostonian | github.io | newest

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America's Lost Boys and Me (robkhenderson.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | robkhenderson.com | newest

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Fortran: Array Language [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | youtube.com | newest

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Both parties are using emotional manipulation to push an agenda of censorship (reason.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | reason.com | newest

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Microsoft's Rise to $3T Took Much More Than Windows (bloomberg.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | bloomberg.com | newest

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RIP Nick Higham (constantinides.net)

a year ago | Bostonian | constantinides.net | frontpage

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How Working Beside Colleagues Affects Training and Productivity (newyorkfed.org)

a year ago | Bostonian | newyorkfed.org | newest

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Your Child's Favorite Teacher May Soon Be a Chatbot (bloomberg.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | bloomberg.com | newest

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SBF Faces Prison, but 'Effective Altruism' Lives On (wsj.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | newest

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Nearly 1000 People Were Convicted of Stealing over Decades Due to Computer Bug (wsj.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | newest

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[flagged] Alan Sokal's Joke Is on Us as Postmoderism Comes to Science (wsj.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | frontpage

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Innovation Booms, Easy Financing, and Human Capital Accumulation (ssrn.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | ssrn.com | newest

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Writing Lesson, Comment on Friedman. Don't piss people off if you don't have to (grumpy-economist.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | grumpy-economist.com | frontpage

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Uber and Traffic Fatalities (direct.mit.edu)

a year ago | Bostonian | mit.edu | newest

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America's Startup Boom Is Stretching Beyond Silicon Valley (wsj.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | newest

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AI Is a Healer, Not a Killer. It will find new drugs (wsj.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | newest

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Diffusion Models for Generative AI: An Introduction for Applied Mathematicians (arxiv.org)

a year ago | Bostonian | arxiv.org | newest

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Race, class, and criminal adjudication:Is the US criminal justice system biased? (sciencedirect.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | sciencedirect.com | newest

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Weird Algorithms (Fireship) [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | youtube.com | newest

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Self-Driving Cars Have Arrived. They Will Make Us Safer (reason.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | reason.com | newest

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Open-Source Chip Design Takes Hold in Silicon Valley. Firms Invest in RISC-V (wsj.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | newest

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Retailers Enlist AI in Fight Against Returns (wsj.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | newest

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Time for a new (?) theory of regulation (Elon Musk and Starlink) (johnhcochrane.blogspot.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | blogspot.com | newest

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Patent Hunters (ssrn.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | ssrn.com | newest

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There Is No 1.5°C Climate Cliff (reason.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | reason.com | newest

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How are startups shaped by macro conditions at birth? (ssrn.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | ssrn.com | best

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Why No One Wants to Pay for the Green Transition (wsj.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | newest

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CA Senate Bill 54 brings venture capital into progressive political compliance (city-journal.org)

a year ago | Bostonian | city-journal.org | newest

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AI 'Accelerationists' Come Out Ahead with Sam Altman's Return to OpenAI (wsj.com)

a year ago | Bostonian | wsj.com | newest

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Why Research Fraud Is Getting Worse (jamesgmartin.center)

a year ago | Bostonian | jamesgmartin.center | newest