Read : 2024-06-22

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Articles for reading

1. “The sins of the educated class” by David Brooks (The New York Times, 2024-06-20).
2. “The science of having a great conversation” by David Robinson (WIRED, 2024-06-09).
3. “Seeing like a data structure” by Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security, 2024-06-03).

Articles for reference

Athletics

1. “What drives ninety-nine percent of performance” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2024-06-19).

Books

1. “Is the New York Times bestseller list politically biased?” (The Economist, 2024-06-11). The wag says, “Duh.”

Business and investing

1. “Nvidia is no Cisco, but it is getting expensive” by Dan Gallagher (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-22).
2. “Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s former chief scientist, launches new AI company” by Tage Kene-Okafor (Tech Crunch, 2024-06-19).
3. “How Japanese companies are benefitting from the chips battle” by Peter Landers, Yang Jie (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-06).

Cybersecurity

1. “Nearly 150,000 ASUS routers potentially exposed to critical vulnerability” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-06-21).
2. “US bans Kaspersky software” by Eric Geller (WIRED, 2024-06-20).
3. “MFA plays a rising role in major attacks, research finds” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-06-18).
4. “Alleged boss of ‘Scattered Spider’ hacking group arrested” by Brian Krebs (Krebs on Security, 2024-06-15).
5. “Microsoft grilled on Capitol Hill over security failures” by James Rundle, Kim S. Nash, Catherine Stupp (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-13).
6. “China-based hackers exploit Fortinet flaw, infecting 20,000 systems globally” by Newsroom (The Hacker News, 2024-06-12).
7. “AES-GCM and breaking it on nonce reuse” by FreReit (frereit.de, 2024-06-09).
8. “Cryptographers discover a new foundation for quantum secrecy” by Ben Brubaker (Quanta Magazine, 2024-06-03).
9. “AI will increase the quantity—and quality—of phishing scams” by F. Heiding, Bruce Schneier, A. Vishwanath (Schneier on Security, 2024-05-30).
10. “Lattice-based cryptosystems and quantum cryptanalysis” by Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security, 2024-05-28).

Economics

1. “How a college dropout changed what we know about the U.S. economy” by Justin Lahart (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-20).
2. “How to tax billionaires—and how not to” (The Economist, 2024-06-19).
3. “The death of NYC congestion pricing” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2024-06-17).
4. “Why house prices are surging once again” (The Economist, 2024-06-16).
5. “Why we have a housing crisis” by kyla scanlon (Kyla’s Newsletter, 2024-06-13).
6. “Producer price indexes—May 2024” (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-06-13).
7. “Consumer price index—May 2024” (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-06-12).
8. “Stung by past mistakes, a wary Fed takes its time” by Nick Timiraos (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-12).
9. “Jerome Powell is a happy Federal Reserve chief” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-12).
10. “Hiring and wages are up, reinforcing the economy’s resilience” by Sam Goldfarb (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-07).
11. “The employment situation—May 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-06-07).

Education

1. “Don’t sanction professors for speaking out” by Alex Morey (Persuasion, 2024-06-21).
2. “The sins of the educated class” by David Brooks (The New York Times, 2024-06-20).
3. “America is educating a nation of investors” (The Economist, 2024-06-20).
4. “The morning” by Dana Goldstein (The New York Times, 2024-06-16). Subtitled, “Public money, private education”.

Health, medicine, and wellness

1. “New insights into acute and long covid” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-06-21).
2. “The morning” by Reed Abelson, Rebecca Robbins (The New York Times, 2024-06-21). Subtitled, “why you’re probably overpaying for medicines”.
3. “Simple test for flu could improve diagnosis and surveillance” by Allessandra DiCorato (Broad Institute, 2024-06-18).
4. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-06-14). Subtitled, “We’re covering the origin of the Covid virus”. Highlighting Alina Chan’s recent article in Times Opinion.
5. “Testing fitness of aging brain” by Liz Mineo (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-06-12).
6. “The big miss: Inflammation and cardiovascular disease” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-06-09).
7. “How to die in good health” by Dhruv Khullar (The New Yorker, 2024-04-15).

Law

1. “The morning” by David McCabe (The New York Times, 2024-06-10). Subtitled, “Free speech online”.
2. “Supreme Court’s strains intensify as term’s end approaches” by Jess Bravin (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-09).
3. “Democracy in the balance” by Lewis Rice (Harvard Law Bulletin, 2024-05-03).

Mathematics

1. “How the square root of 2 became a number” by Jordana Cepelewicz (Quanta Magazine, 2024-06-21).
2. “Game theory can make AI more correct and efficient” by Steve Nadis (Quanta Magazine, 2024-05-09).

Politics

1. “The morning” by German Lopez (The New York Times, 2024-06-19). Subtitled, “We’re covering why humanitarian aid can’t get into Gaza…”.
2. “Noam Chomsky and the end of ‘America bad’” by Noah Smith (Noapinion, 2024-06-19).
3. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-06-18). Subtitled, “We’re covering the distrustful voters who may decide the 2024 election…”.
4. “Journalists shouldn’t depend on the state for their wages” by Jonathan Kay (Persuasion, 2024-06-14).
5. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-06-12). Subtitled, “We’re covering immigration’s role in European and U.S. politics…”.
6. “The secret Supreme Court tapes” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-11).
7. “In Europe, chaos is the new normal” by Yascha Mounk (Le Point, via Persuasion, 2024-06-10).

Science

1. “How is science even possible?” by Steven Strogatz (Quanta Magazine, 2024-06-20). 37-minute audio recording with transcript.
2. “How quantum physics is reshaping privacy” by Ben Brubaker (Quanta Magazine, 2024-06-17).
3. “How worrying is the rapid rise of Chinese science?” (The Economist, 2024-06-13).
4. “China has become a scientific superpower” (The Economist, 2024-06-12).
5. “More than a planetary fender-bender” by Alvin Powell (THe Harvard Gazette, 2024-06-10).
6. “The greatest climate-protecting technology ever devised” by Brooke Jarvis (WIRED, 2020-04-01). Photosynthesis.

Society

1. “Simon Fanshawe on merit and diversity” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-06-22). 66-minute audio recording with transcript.
2. “Journalism needs cultural adjacency” by Alex Perez (Persuasion, 2024-06-19).
3. “Casualties are mounting in the U.S. culture wars” by Annalee Newitz (The Hypothesis, 2024-06-18).
4. “A tax on life” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2024-06-16).
5. “The myth of low black self-esteem” by John McWhorter (Persuasion, 2024-06-14).
6. “An object lesson from covid on how to destroy public trust” by Zeynep Tufekci (The New York Times, 2024-06-08).
7. “George Orwell’s error” by Christopher J. Snowdon (Quillette, 2024-06-06).
8. “The problem isn’t technology, it’s us” by Iona Italia (Quillette, 2024-06-05).
9. “What is social status?” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2023-06-04).
10. “How AI will change democracy” by Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security, 2024-05-31).

Technology : AWS AI training

1. “AWS expands cloud-based AI training portfolio, adds 2 pro certifications” by Matt Ashare (CIO Dive, 2024-06-14).
2. “AWS debuts 2 AI certifications to give you an edge in pursuing in-demand cloud jobs” by Amazon Staff (Amazon, 2024-06-11).

Technology : Other

1. “AI doesn’t kill jobs? Tell that to freelancers” by Christopher Mims (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-21).

   Economists are fond of saying that AI will automate some tasks, but is unlikely to eliminate many jobs…

   Perhaps there is something to be said about fragility (or its opposite, resilience) when jobs become so specialized that they consists mostly of a small set of tasks? When technology is able to do those tasks cheaply and efficiently, those human jobs disappear.
2. “My memories are just Meta’s training data now” by Morgan Meaker (WIRED, 2024-06-21).
3. “The exponential growth of solar power will change the world” (The Economist, 2024-06-20).
4. “IT pros worry over the data that fuels AI” by Matt Ashare (CIO Dive, 2024-06-18).
5. “No matter how you package it, Apple Intelligence is AI” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2024-06-14).
6. “Decade of the battery” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-06-09). “A repost with some updates.”
7. “The morning” by Kashmir Hill (The New York Times, 2024-06-09). Subtitled, “Eyes on the road”. The article discusses how your car or apps on your smartphone collect data that can then be sold and, possibly, determine your “driving score” (think credit score, for driving).
8. “Music just changed forever” by James O’Malley (Persuasion, 2024-06-07).
9. “Don’t let mistrust of tech companies blind you to the power of AI” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2024-06-07).
10. “OpenAI offers a peek inside the guts of ChatGPT” by Will Knight (WIRED, 2024-06-06).
11. “Robots are suddenly getting cleverer. What’s changed?” (The Economist, 2024-06-05).
12. “Online privacy and overfishing” by Barath Raghavan, Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security, 2024-06-05).
13. “Seeing like a data structure” by Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security, 2024-06-03).

Other

1. “At least five interesting things for your weekend (#41)” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-06-22).
2. “How not to be fooled by viral charts, part 2” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-06-14). Paywalled.
3. “Protocols and peak performance” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2024-06-11).
4. “The science of having a great conversation” by David Robinson (WIRED, 2024-06-09).
5. “2024 Commencement Address by Roger Federer at Dartmouth” by Dartmouth (YouTube, 2024-06-09). 25m video recording.
6. “Brad Wilcox on why you should get married” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-06-08). 51m audio recording with transcript.
7. “The empty brain” by Robert Epstein (Aeon, 2016-05-18).