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1. Which musical styles do smart people prefer? 2. U. of Austin job ads. 3. Walter Koenig, RIP (NYT). Chekov. 4. One take on the new computational result. And one (overstated) Chinese interpretation. And another extreme and unwarranted view. 5.…

1. Why slow fields may determine the pace of discovery. 2. Touch screens on your jacket? 3. Astras performance on Bach bench. 4. More on regional productivity differences (and puzzles) in health care. 5.…

1. A safe harbor for open source? 2. False but interesting claims about economic growth. 3. “In a calibrated model of the welfare effects of the estimated impacts of the Great Recession on consumption and mortality, we find that the welfare gain from the…

1. Weird diets (NYT). 2. Is this what the Denisovans looked like? 3. Measuring bottlenecks for AI. 4. How is violence diffferent when women lead drug cartels? 5.…

1. More on Nigerian and African mega-cities, by the great David Pilling (FT). 2. Quantum gravity labor arbitrage. 3. New (non-AI) claims about consciousness. And more here. 4. “Stop Pink-Washing Patriarchy!” 5. How well do LLMs predict household behavior?…

1. Freddie as AI skeptic (and I have given my predictions in fact). 2. Claims about Shakespeare and Marlowe. 3. How did “artificial intelligence” get its name? 4. How is the econ job market this year? 5. AI can now ace econometric coding. 6.…

1. The Romans and sex. 2. Apartments that expand at the touch of a button. 3. Has this guy composed more songs than anybody else? 4. Psychoanalyzing Elizabeth Holmes. 5. AI wrote some of the Dallas Michelin reviews. And the reviewer responds. 6.…

How we optimized Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY-backed data streams at scale, achieving 60K writes per second with millisecond latency.

1. “Robinhood launched agentic trading and an agentic credit card today that will allow AI agents to trade equities and make credit card purchases on customers’ behalf.” With cash back, of course. 2. Cultural Tutor and beauty. 3.…

1. Where are the economies of scale in homebuilding? 2. Peter Thiel and Argentina (NYT). 3. Discourse on classical guitar. 4. How many dissertations are AI-written? 5. NYT talks with Macca. 6. New algorithm for ranking VCs.

Rapid City Central dropped its contest against Sioux Falls Jefferson on Friday, May 15, at Parkview Softball Complex.

From Rapidcityjournal RSS Feed: Emma Raducanu gets set to serve to Amanda Anisimova during their third-round match at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells,

Ronda Rousey, left, and Gina Carano pose after a press conference for the Most Valuable Promotions MMA card at Palladium Theater on April 15 in New York.

From Rapidcityjournal RSS Feed: South Dakota's Congressional delegation swore an oath — Jay Williams letter

The man was indicted by a federal grand jury in Feburary 2023. He pleaded guilty on Feb. 19, 2026.

From Rapidcityjournal RSS Feed: Nov 16, 2025; Cleveland, Ohio, USA; Cleveland Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders (12) walks off the field following a game against the Baltimore Ravens at Huntington Bank Field.…