Collected links

1. “John Coltrane – Alabama”
2. “Is AI Riding a One-Trick Pony?” (through Kaiser Fung)

3. British Brexit Secretary, David Davis:

   The assessment of that effect … is not as straightforward as many people think. And I’m not a fan of economic models, because they have all proven wrong. (link)

4. “Consumer Inflation Uncertainty”
5. “Why Are Some Good Old Ideas Buried in the History of Statistical Graphics?”

6. Tom Breloff:

   Instead of rushing to Software 2.0, lets view neural networks in proper context: they are models, not magic.

7. Roman Cheplyaka: “Explained variance in PCA”
8. Project-oriented workflow or how not to “SET YOUR COMPUTER ON FIRE 🔥.”

9. “Cat Person”, by Kristen Roupenian in The New Yorker. About which was written:

   This past weekend, the biggest story on social media was not about a powerful man who had sexually assaulted someone, or something the president said on Twitter. Charmingly, as if we were all at a Paris salon in the 1920s, everyone had an opinion about a short story.

10. Beautiful Testing (seen here)
11. Sam Altman thinks he can speek more freely in Beijing than in San Francisco. And Tyler Cowen has a good explanation.