Ben Lockwood

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Business Economics and Public Policy Professor at Wharton. Optimal taxation, inequality, and behavioral economics.
Websitehttps://benlockwood.com
Wharton websitehttps://bepp.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/benlo/
Githubhttps://github.com/bblockwood
This is how I know there's hope for humanity https://build-your-own.org/blog/20240813_css_vertical_center/
CSS finally adds vertical centering in 2024 | Blog | build-your-own.org

CSS finally adds vertical centering in 2024

build-your-own.org
Apple’s attention to detail is INSANE. You can’t watch this and not smile.
This one of my favorite new ChatGPT genres. https://toot.cat/@devopscats/112445057997076822
devopscats (@[email protected])

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Toot.Cat
My favorite (non-coding) application for LLMs so far: choose-your-own-adventure bedtime stories.

In case you’re looking for #economics audio content this week, two great interviews with Claudia Goldin:

(with Tyler Cowen)
https://overcast.fm/+TSJkqAmYw

(with Orley Ashenfelter)
https://overcast.fm/+-EwO2cXuo

Claudia Goldin on the Economics of Inequality — Conversations with Tyler

How to model social progress.

Claudia Goldin Wins Nobel in Economics for Studying Women in the Work Force

Her research uncovered the reasons for gender gaps in labor force participation and earnings. She is the third woman to win the prize.

The New York Times
Standing ovation to Claudia Goldin!!
We had a long outage at sciences.social today. Our mastodon hosting provider masto.host is great, but the large infrastructure provider, OVH, that physically runs masto.host’s machines tried to replace a failing disk on the drive array for our database server and messed that up royally. Masto.host fixed the problem OVH created. I’m gonna look at putting up info to communicate sciences.social status on a static platform so at least you have an easier way to check.
Apologies for the downtime.