Will LoweYou may have noticed that Americans make more money than Europeans for the same jobs. You may also have suspected that the US is a rather more dangerous place to live. John Quiggins' calculations suggests that 10-40K salary difference as a plausible risk premium. Perhaps that's the difference? More discussion over on Crooked Timber: https://crookedtimber.org/2023/04/23/living-in-the-us-is-like-having-a-super-dangerous-job/
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I teach politics at Royal Holloway, University of London. I research public opinion, electoral systems, and judicial behaviour. On sick leave February through March
Evan Centanni (PolGeoNow)#India is passing #China as the world's biggest country by number of people, with about 1.4 billion. The data's not detailed enough to know exactly when it happens, but "best guess" is...right about now. Good article explaining why experts can't say exactly when: https://apnews.com/article/china-india-world-population-census-fertility-193b45b5ae69e7ce9f870f5ce60909d9
#geography #geographyteacher @geography @politicalscience #funfacts #pubquiz
When exactly will India surpass China as most populous?
India will surpass China's population this month. Or maybe in July. Or, perhaps it's happened already? Demographers are unsure exactly when India will take the title as the most populous nation in the world because they're relying on estimates to make their best guess.
Can't believe I had never read any Connie Willis until a few months ago
Henry FarrellAt the @AnnualReviews of Political Science board meeting and hearing about the impact of making the journal open access. First effect - massive increase of readership - from around 25k downloads a month to 150k-200k a month. Second - broadening of readership outside of rich Western countries). Huge influx of readers from Philippines, Nigeria, India Pakistan (all now top 10 in downloads - Philippines #3). @AnnualReviews
YY AhnDownplaying the prowess of LLMs by saying that it is merely 'predicting the next token' feels like scoffing at an intricate fractal, saying, "it's merely the result of a simple copying process."
Reading a sci-fi novel with some preposterous future developments, like an Oxford - London bullet train
Andrew SteeleNew ROOM-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTOR?!?! This is absolutely massive if true!
The group had a paper from a couple of years ago making similar claims retracted by Nature, but they seem to be trying to go the extra mile to prove it this time…worth watching! https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/record-room-temperature-superconductor-could-boost-quantum-computer-chips/4017114.article
One victim of research misconduct: my excitement at this announcement of a room temperature superconductor https://www.quantamagazine.org/room-temperature-superconductor-discovery-meets-with-resistance-20230308/
If the first rule of exploratory data analysis is "plot the data", the second should be "check your merged dataset has the number of rows you were expecting"
Incredible to see someone exercise such control without the benefit of any tactile feedback https://youtu.be/XdFSU8sn3mo <- per Wiki, "her innate absolute pitch [was] helpful in playing the instrument"
