Previous month Links For February 2025
Links
- Interesting website to see specific families by income in different countries per month. Really shows cross-country inequality is the most important inequality!
- A reminder to read a (very long) book review about Georgism/land value tax, can spark lots of discussions about landlords and public goods.
- Don’t know what search API to use for your AI bot? Here’s a good comparison article, though I used duckduckgo in the end for my experiment.
- A video about Japan’s Sustainable Forest Village. Looks nice, but is it just a gimmick? I don’t think it’s a sustainable solution for dying villages.
- Pretty funny video (roasting?) Berliners
- GPU mini-grant from a Reddit user
- Cool dashboard to see F1 live timings. Will it get blocked soon?
- I love a famous Peter Singer’s drowning child thought experiment, here’s another post diving deeper into “holes” in it.
- A reminder to read an introductory post about longtermism. Your small actions can effect many many people in the future!
- Lots of advices on how to start writing papers as a researcher (just start!)
Some quotes
Yeah I mean a general lesson here is that you want to be in the sort of business that sends one-line invoices, not the sort of business that bills by the sixth of the hour.
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Have lower expectations. Jensen Huang, CEO and founder of NVIDIA, recently offered the following advice: “People with very high expectations have very low resilience - and unfortunately, resilience matters in success. One of my great advantages is that I have very low expectations.” I think you could benefit from having lower expectations, especially when it comes to the bars that you set for yourself for milestones like “being qualified to manage ML scientists”, “being capable of working for a tech company in research”, etc.