Financial innovation is actually happening, esp in the US.

"…Bitcoin mining capacity is highly concentrated and has been for the last five years. The top 10% of miners control 90% and just 0.1% (about 50 miners) control close to 50% of mining capacity … individual holdings are still highly concentrated: the top 1000 investors control about 3 million BTC and the top 10,000 investors own around 5 million bitcoins."

National Bureau of Economic Research releases report on “Blockchain Analysis of the Bitcoin Market”. [PDF]

Google Research introduces Pathways, a way to generalise ML models.

OpenAI trained a system that solves about 90% as many grade school math problems as real kids.

What’s next for transistors and chiplets.

Disney research on ‘Adaptive convolutions; a generic extension of AdaIN’, which allows transferring the style of one image to another.

Stratechery interview with March Zuckerberg about the metaverse.

A prototype original iPod.

Project SPHINX, The USSR’s vision of computing future.

“We investigated sex differences in 473,260 adolescents’ aspirations to work in things-oriented (e.g., mechanic), people-oriented (e.g., nurse), and STEM (e.g., mathematician) careers across 80 countries and economic regions…

Differences in adolescents’ occupational aspirations.

The untold story of the world’s biggest nuclear bomb.