BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2021-11-04 Th

Things that went whizzing by I want to remember:

First:

Is Intel back in the game? Perhaps. But I would like to see Jade-4C-Die first, and get some sense of the properly amortized cost of both producing and running it and of Alder Lake before I even begin to dare to have an opinion with respect to what is going on:

The Full Nerd: Intel 12th-Gen Reviews Galore w/@TechTechPotato & A Secret AVX–512 Surprise! <https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=7LehCQ9KL0A>:

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One Video:

Yale Law Students are like this:

Eager to not be a community, but rather to start a fight—with both Sharks and Jets both trying to stay on their side of the “line” and tricking the other side to cross it, so it can be blamed for the fight that both sides want. The proper response is that of Mercutio: “A pox on both your houses!”

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Very Briefly Noted:

• Alan Cole: How COVID–19 Broke My Favorite Labor Economics Chart: ‘A longstanding connection between wage growth and employment levels has broken down… <https://fullstackeconomics.com/how-covid-19-broke-my-favorite-labor-economics-chart/>

• Julia Ioffe: Tales from the CNN Trump-Era Green Room: ‘Kirsten Powers, who went from liberal on Fox News to anti-Trump voice on CNN, explains what happens when the shouting matches end, the cameras turn off, and you’re stuck in the green room with Santorum. And how to handle it all, and more, with a little grace… <https://puck.news/tales-from-the-cnn-trump-era-green-room/>

• Noah Smith: Much of What You’ve Heard About Carter & Reagan Is Wrong: ‘Debunking our narratives of the late 70s and early 80s…. It was Jimmy Carter who appointed Volcker as the Fed chair, in 1979…

Much of what you've heard about Carter and Reagan is wrong

• Zachary D. Carter: Joe Biden, FDR, & the Democratic Party’s Battle of Ideas: ‘Biden’s agenda has taken some big hits, but he’s winning the war for his party’s future… LINK: <

Joe Biden, FDR, and the Democratic Party's Battle of Ideas

• Jonathan M. Katz: The Far Right’s Secret Weapon: ‘Have some extreme reactionism you need to sell? Call the politics desk of the New York Times…

The far right's secret weapon

• Ben Dreyfuss: Everyone Who Is Mad About This Chris Pratt Thing Has Brain Worms: ‘Twitter is a place where Occam doesn’t have a razor and if he did, he’d be planning something devious with it…

Everyone who is mad about this Chris Pratt thing has brain worms

• Alex Kantrowitz: The Case to Reform the Share Button, According to Facebook’s Own Research: New leaked document shows Facebook’s Share button spreads misinformation pervasively after two hops down the chain…

The Case To Reform The Share Button, According To Facebook’s Own Research

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Michael Pettis: Will China’s Common Prosperity Upgrade Dual Circulation?: ‘Will China’s Common Prosperity Upgrade Dual Circulation?Chinese leaders know that they want to discontinue the country’s existing growth model, but they haven’t yet landed on what the sustainable alternatives are. Beijing’s new common prosperity policy will only help shift domestic demand at the margins, but a full-fledged rebalancing will require a more radical transformation…. There is a contradiction at the heart of the dual circulation formulation…. The goal of the common prosperity campaign, it seems, is to rebalance income levels through transfers from those who are rich to those who are not…. First, donations by foundations set up by Chinese businesses and wealthy individuals accounted for roughly 0.2 percent of GDP in 2017. (By comparison, charitable giving in the United States amounted to around 2.3 percent of GDP in 2020.)… Second, by forcing the private sector to bear the brunt of the adjustment costs for rebalancing Chinese income distribution, the common prosperity campaign risks undermining the dynamism of the Chinese economy…. But the third reason is by far the most important one for why it would be prudent to be cautious about the projected success of the common prosperity campaign: Beijing may be seeking to resolve Western forms of income distortion instead of Chinese forms of income distortion in China’s very different economic context…

LINK: <https://carnegieendowment.org/chinafinancialmarkets/85571>

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Doug Jones: The World in 1600: ‘World population, about 545 million…. In the century after 1492, West Europeans mastered the winds and currents of the world’s oceans. The shock to the rest of the world would be comparable in some ways to the earlier shock resulting from the spread of nomadism on the Eurasian steppes…. Mega-empires. In Eastern Europe and Asia… the landscape was dominated by huge empires: Russia, the Ottomans, Safavid Persia, Mughal India, Ming China. These have sometimes been called “gunpowder empires,” emphasizing the role of cannon in establishing centralized power. But they could also be considered the aftermath of the Mongol conquests…. These empires developed in centrifugal fashion, with power collapsing at the old Mongol center, and new states arising along the Mongol marches. Charlemagne + 800. Another centrifugal episode of state formation took place in Western and Central Europe, on a smaller scale, over a longer period of time…. By 1600… military competition had produced more powerful absolutist states. Medieval liberties survived best in lands where military threats had been less intense, on islands (England and Scotland), on an isolated peninsula (Scandinavia), in the mountains (Switzerland) or soggy lowlands (Holland), or just far from the madding crowd (Poland)…

LINK: <https://logarithmichistory.wordpress.com/2021/11/04/the-world-in-1600-7/>

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Steven Johnson: Designing a Workflow For Thinking: ‘We’re living in a golden age of tools for thought. But with so many options, it’s important to carve out time every year or two for a “creative inventory” of how you discover and organize your ideas…. what I’m going to do here at Adjacent Possible is share a series of documents that are all structured around the key questions you should ask yourself in designing that creative workflow. Questions like: how do you capture your own hunches? How do you capture ideas from other people? How do your ideas evolve over time? How do you engineer surprise and serendipitous discovery into your routine? (My hope is that it will be useful to everyone, no matter what your profession happens to be—I won’t just focus on book-related tools.) For each question I’m going to write a short essay supplemented by an annotated list of the tools and strategies that I’ve found interesting; I’ll update the documents…

LINK:

Designing a Workflow For Thinking

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