Reposted by Ajit Paul Williams @pewilliams.bsky.social · 25/03/2025As Chirag says: more supply means more effective redistribution. A family given a housing voucher in a supply constrained market often never finds a home. 526472 0
Reposted by Ajit mulboyne.bsky.social @mulboyne.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Mt. Fuji from Hatagaya Station in Tokyo on the Keio Line. Taken with a telephoto lens by Kenji Suzuki of the Sankei. More photos in the gallery in the link. www.sankei.com/article/2025... 320213 0
Reposted by Ajit Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 15/01/20252025 in a nutshell… 276320454464 0
Reposted by Ajit Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Major 1990s witches: Hocus Pocus Practical Magic Charmed Sabrina The Teenage Witch Blair Witch Project The Craft 15823 0
Reposted by Ajit Taiwan Hikes @taiwanhikes.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Wushan Cross-ridge Historical Trail. #TamsuiKavalanHistoricalTrails #Taiwan 042 0
Reposted by Ajit The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 15/01/2025The city of Kyoto plans to raise the accommodation tax to a maximum ¥10,000 per night — the highest in Japan — to improve city infrastructure and mitigate crowds.buff.lyKyoto to raise accommodation tax to a maximum ¥10,000 per nightThe collected money under the new plan would be used to improve infrastructure in the city, such as increasing public transportation. 2273 0
Reposted by Ajit Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht.bsky.social · 14/01/2025New paper! Now in press at Cognition: Experimental evidence that exerting effort increases meaning Check out @aidanvcampbell.bsky.social's new paper. This was a real effort...and boy was it meaningful (especially now that it was accepted!). Check out the preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...osf.ioOSF 04611 0
Reposted by Ajit Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 18/12/2024Boom! news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4245...news.ycombinator.comShow HN: Bodo – high-performance compute engine for Python data processing | Hacker News 001 0
Reposted by Ajit Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 16/12/2024According to Bloomberg, in November new-home prices dropped 0.2% month on month, the smallest decrease in 17 months, and 6.1% year on year. Existing-home prices fell 0.35% month on month, the least since May 2023, and 8.5% year on year. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comChina Home Prices Fall at Slower Pace in ‘Fragile’ RecoveryChina’s home-price declines eased for a third month in November, suggesting values are beginning to stabilize as policymakers step up efforts to end the property slump. 1162 0
Reposted by Ajit Michael Kevin Spencer @aisupremacy.bsky.social · 14/12/2024The truth is 2025 is a year where Databricks can raise more money than OpenAI whuke having a valuation of almost 1/3. Before going public, Databricks is close to finalizing a $9.5 billion round. This is what a generational company looks like. This is 3 billion more than OpenAI's round. 2193 0
Reposted by Ajit Senior PowerPoint Engineer @ryxcommar.bsky.social · 11/12/2024me and my reply guys being criticized for not being the types to point a gun at a ceo 2904 0
Reposted by Ajit Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Probably the most compelling evidence I've seen for some sort of fiscal theory of the price level cc @anthonyleezhang.bsky.social ht x.com/AlecStapp/st... 5486 0
Reposted by Ajit Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 09/12/2024New post: My substack is back, finally! I meant to keep this to 1,000 words but I failed. In any case, here's a round up of 5 major medical breakthroughs in 2024.scientificdiscovery.devFive medical breakthroughs in 2024It's December, and time for a retrospective on some breakthroughs in medical innovation this year. 21432107 0
Reposted by Ajit Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 08/12/2024this is indeed a good conversation 2157 0
Reposted by Ajit Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 07/12/2024I built a tiny JS library providing async alternatives to the alert() and confirm() and prompt() simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/7/p... await Prompts.alert("alert message"); const confirmedBoolean = await Prompts.confirm("Proceed?"); const name = await Prompts.prompt("Enter your name"); 91199 0
Reposted by Ajit Heather Long @byheatherlong.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Return-work-mandates are an invisible pay cut Great column from @crampell.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... 41926267 0
Reposted by Ajit David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/12/2024In terms of mobility, e-bikes are selling faster & having bigger effects on emissions than EVs, much less self-driving EVs. And yet they get vastly, vastly less attention. www.fastcompany.com/90994141/why...fastcompany.comWhy 2023 was the year of the e-bike and not the self-driving carE-bikes and self-driving cars both entered the year with momentum. Only one maintained it. 23728208 0
Reposted by Ajit Matt Dalgleish @meatwatcher.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Fair point facts. #memefacts 0144 0
Reposted by Ajit Yeji Chung @yejichung.bsky.social · 05/12/2024ROK media reports that most Cabinet members at the meeting before Yoon's martial law declaration expressed strong concerns and opposition. Below is a list of ministers who attended, those who didn't, and their reactions to Yoon's decision. www.joongang.co.kr/article/2529... 34719 0
Reposted by Ajit Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 04/12/2024I think we could agree that, yes, “common sense reform” means “don’t do radical change.” I think going for radical change is a road to backlash and disaster. 181625 0
Reposted by Ajit curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 04/12/2024In #JapaneseFolklore ippondatara is a #yokai with one thick leg and one eye. It lives alone in the mountains of Japan, hopping about doing somersaults and leaving footprints in the snow. On December 20th only, it becomes violent and will squash anyone in its path flat with its... #WyrdWednesday 1/2 110721 0
Reposted by Ajit ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Korean kids don't even get a coup day off 252599559 0
Reposted by Ajit Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 02/12/2024Sometimes, the most important news is when something *isn’t* happening: Since the last plane crash by a US airline, they have transported passengers for more than two *light-years* 320047 0
Reposted by Ajit Fem Severian @imhavingfun.bsky.social · 02/12/2024We need to get these numbers upp 111 0
Reposted by Ajit Michael Kevin Spencer @aisupremacy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Are scaling laws around LLMs and the ROI from capex in AI of Big Tech slowing down? As LLMs grow larger, the costs of getting high-quality training data and scaling infrastructure increase exponentially, reducing the returns on performance improvement in new models. 451 0
Reposted by Ajit tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 30/11/2024foofu is the lion, kooka is the giraffe 121 0
Reposted by Ajit Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 30/11/20243yo has named these animals Kooka and Foofu. Can you guess which one is which? 142 0
Reposted by Ajit David Priess @davidpriess.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Greenland getting easier for US visitors: Nuuk has just expanded its international airport with a modern terminal and a 2,200-meter runway to accommodate direct flights from North America—like United’s twice weekly route from Newark to Nuuk, starting in June. www.arctictoday.com/new-nuuk-air...arctictoday.comNew Nuuk airport opens, transforming Greenlandic tourism - ArcticTodayNuuk, Greenland’s capital, is aiming to become a central hub for Arctic travel with the inauguration of its expanded international airport. The new facility, featuring a 2,200-meter runway and a moder... 810415 0
Reposted by Ajit Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Everyday I’m reminded of how German the German language is. Turtleneck: Rollkragenpullover 2031417 0
Reposted by Ajit Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 29/11/2024One thing I proposed was to completely buy out the coal industry. For about 36b , you could buy all the coal plants (at a nice profit for owners ), give their customers 5 to 10 yrs to transition and give all employees full pay till retirement. Take out coal and other paths get simpler Thoughts? 120820100 0
Reposted by Ajit Joe Weisenthal @weisenthal.bsky.social · 29/11/2024In today’s newsletter I wrote about our chat today with Viktor Shvets and how the political tensions represented by Trumpism could last far longer than the incoming administration 4546 0
Reposted by Ajit Kraut @derparrot.bsky.social · 28/11/2024The onion towers are part of the St. Basil cathedral. It's often confused with the Kremlin because it stands just outside the Kremlin. But the actual Kremlin is the gigantic fortress with its big red walls and the big white palace behind those walls. 3626 0
Reposted by Ajit Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony. However, eating too much pie is okay because the sin of pi is always zero. 🖖 1257482587614 0
Reposted by Ajit Jeremy Lewi @jeremy.lewi.us · 28/11/2024Earlier today I read this post whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net... by @bnewbold.net. The phrase that stuck out to me was "This architecture facilitates big-world indices". It seems like we need other players like @hf.co to commoditize indexes so that we don't wind up with gatekeeperswhtwnd.comReply on Bluesky and Decentralization | bryan newboldThis is a reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber's thoughtful (and widely read) "How decentralized is Bluesky really?" blog post. I am so happy and grateful that Christine took the time to write up her tho... 142 0
Reposted by Ajit Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 28/11/2024The Westminster Dog Show really should add Chernobyl Exclusion Zone feral dogs as an official breed.popularmechanics.comThe Dogs of Chernobyl Are Experiencing Rapid Evolution, Study SuggestsHave the canines acquired strange mutations living near the power plant? 26511 0
Reposted by Ajit Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 28/11/2024I've found it freeing to allow myself hypocrisy. And when I yet complain about others' hypocrisy, it only demonstrates my commitment to this philosophy. 430626 0
Reposted by Ajit Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · 27/11/2024The first generative AI methods with impressive scaling performance were GANs. In other words, GANs started the generative AI field, and were the dominant method until replaced by diffusion models (whose research benefited from knowing that one could scale). 3322 0
Reposted by Ajit Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 27/11/20242004 memories: Bush won a solid victory (2.4 points on popular vote) because voters wrongly believed that he was strong on terrorism, then claimed a mandate to privatize Social Security. It didn't go well 1/ 351258158 0
Reposted by Ajit Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 27/11/2024Billions of people suffer from anemia, but there are cheap ways to reduce this 1537 0
Reposted by Ajit Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 26/11/20242/5 Even if they run large bilateral trade surpluses with the US, Mexico and Canada overall are deficit countries, which means that they help absorb some of the global excess savings that would otherwise end up in the US. This helps reduce US trade deficits. www.bloomberg.com/view/article...bloomberg.comTrade Deficit With Mexico Is Good for AmericaPunishing its southern neighbor would make the U.S. worse off. 1344 0
Reposted by Ajit Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com · 26/11/2024What percentage of people do you reckon? Give us a ballpark figure. 1111 0
Reposted by Ajit Michael Kevin Spencer @aisupremacy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Microsoft Research ~ LazyGraphRAG looks impressive. GraphRAG, is an advanced technique that enhances Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) by integrating knowledge graphs into the process. A key advantage of LazyGraphRAG is its inherent scalability in terms of both cost and quality. 1162 0
