link roundup
None of these links are related to Current Events. I am currently pretending today isn’t happening1 (and indeed, this post was written several days ago).
Witold Wieçek has resolved the worm wars. Spoiler alert: empirical social science papers were underpowered.
Younger workers adopt technologies faster. An older workforce = less technological adoption.
Latinos are less likely to vote for politicians that use the term Latinx.
Via Peter Evans: an eye care company is doing free eye exams for Indian truck drivers. Does anyone know of a DALYs averted per $ spent on eye exams, assuming people are driving? This seems high ROI to me,2 but I’d like to see a formal calculation.
25% of new code at Google is now generated by AI.
The dedication of the Lincoln Memorial was a segregated event.
Good teachers really matter for high achieving students. (The paper title glosses this as mentorship, and that I agree with even more strongly; I never would have become a physics researcher without a devoted mentor during high school.)
Human language conveys information at the same rate, regardless of the language. Languages that take more words to convey information are spoken faster (e.g. Spanish); languages that take fewer words to convey information are spoken slower (e.g. Thai).
Aveek Bhattacharya is collating a list of people who have endorsed both Jeremy Corbyn and Donald Trump. Current members: MIA, Russell Brand.
Though I will take a moment to highlight the amazing website “didmyhookup.vote”.
Largely because the idea of me driving without my glasses is completely terrifying.