Algorithms to Live By: Book Review
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (2016), Brian Christian and Thomas Griffiths. An algorithm is a set of...
How to Be Perfect: Book Review
How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question (2021). Michael Schur (he created The Good Place). This is a surprisingly...
There is Nothing for You Here: Book Review
There is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century (2021), Fiona Hill. Hill became a senior director of the NSA in...
How Europe Made the Modern World: Book Review
How Europe Made the Modern World: Creating the Great Divergence (2019), Jonathan Daly. The Great Divergence has two parts according to...
Thinking Inside a Bigger Box
Paul Krugman indicated that global trade was facilitated by bigger boxes—shipping containers. Their use meant considerably lower costs...
We Want to Lose! We Want to Lose!
Democrats are in charge in Washington and seem to crash and burn in terms of getting things done, like the infrastructure bills. Biden’s...