Random links
- Review of Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now
- Review of a book arguing that the world is gettin better; "As I read Pinker, I sometimes imagined a book published in 1923 about the astonishing improvements in the condition of Europe’s Jews following their emancipation."
- GDPR is centralizing the market
- Why big online companies might welcome privacy legislation.
- Math, Girls and Socialism
- "the gender gap in math is smaller in European countries that used to be part of the Soviet bloc, as opposed to the rest of Europe. The lesson is twofold: (1) a large part of the pervasive gender gap in math is due to social stereotypes; (2) institutions can durably modify these stereotypes."
- Goodhart's law
- "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"