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Treating beef like coal would make a big dent in greenhouse-gas emissions

www.economist.com | Article | 2023-08-06 | Meta

Topics: Climate Change

Cattle are a surprisingly large producer of greenhouse gases

Men are hunters, women are gatherers. That was the assumption. A new study upends it.

www.npr.org | article | 2023-08-06 | Meta

Topics: Gender Roles

The implications are potentially enormous, says history professor Kimberly Hamlin: "The myth that man is the hunter and woman is the gatherer ... naturalizes the inferiority of women."

How the Kids Online Safety Act puts us all at risk

www.theverge.com | article | 2023-08-06 | Meta

Topics: Government Regulation Internet Privacy

Even kids could be harmed by KOSA’s chilling effects on speech.

Disney, ESPN Send Virtual-Production Tech Into Sports Stratosphere With New ‘Catalyst Stage’ in Bristol

www.sportsvideo.org | article | 2023-08-06 | Meta

Since the eye-melting release of the first season of Disney+’s The Mandalorian, virtual-production technology has been the hot new innovation in the Media &am

Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges | Opportunity Insights

opportunityinsights.org | article | 2023-08-06 | Meta

Vanguard’s Trillion-Dollar Man Leads a Fixed-Income Revolution — Bloomberg

stocks.apple.com | article | 2023-05-13 | Meta

When March’s bank failures ignited a historic bond rally, few, if any, made more money than Josh Barrickman.

Even Amazon can't make sense of serverless or microservices

world.hey.com | article | 2023-05-13 | Meta

Topics: Microservices Software Engineering

The Prime Video team at Amazon has published a rather remarkable case study on their decision to dump their serverless, microservices architecture and replace it with a monolith instead. This move saved them a staggering 90%(!!) on operating costs, and simplified the system too. What a win! But beyond celebrating their good sense, I th...

Monoliths are not dinosaurs

www.allthingsdistributed.com | article | 2023-05-13 | Meta

Topics: Software Engineering

Building evolvable software systems is a strategy, not a religion. And revisiting your architectures with an open mind is a must.

So many bad takes — What is there to learn from the Prime Video microservices to monolith story

adrianco.medium.com | article | 2023-05-13 | Meta

Topics: Microservices Software Engineering

The Prime Video team published this story: Scaling up the audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs by 90%, and the internet piled…

The beginning of the end of the password

blog.google | article | 2023-05-13 | Meta

We’ve begun rolling out support for passkeys across Google Accounts on all major platforms as an additional option that people can use to sign in.

Understanding Large Language Models

magazine.sebastianraschka.com | article | 2023-04-30 | Meta

Topics: Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

A Cross-Section of the Most Relevant Literature To Get Up to Speed

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twitter.com | | 2023-03-25 | Meta

The Age of AI has begun

www.gatesnotes.com | article | 2023-03-25 | Meta

Topics: Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence

Bill Gates explains why AI is as revolutionary as personal computers, mobile phones, and the Internet, and he gives three principles for how to think about it.

How to Understand the Well-Being Gap between Liberals and Conservatives - American Affairs Journal

americanaffairsjournal.org | article | 2023-03-25 | Meta

In a recent essay for Social Science & Medicine–Mental Health, epidemiologist Catherine Gimbrone and coauthors identified a significant gap in depressive attitudes between liberal and conservative teens. This gap was present in all years observed in the study (2005–18). It grew significantly starting in 2012, however, as depressive affect unilaterally spiked among liberals. Three years…

Banks do not create money out of thin air

cepr.org | | 2023-03-25 | Meta

Topics: Finance Government Regulation

In recent years, some have claimed that banks create money ‘ex nihilo’. This column explains that banks do not create money out of thin air. From an economic viewpoint, commercial banks create private money by transforming an illiquid asset (the borrower’s future ability to repay) into a liquid one (bank deposits); they would quickly be insolvent otherwise. In addition to bank solvency representing a constraint on private money creation, banks require access to liquid reserves in order to be able to engage in money creation.