Tolkien

In a 2019 Slate Star Codex post, Scott Alexander argued that OpenAI's GPT-2 is not merely a "brute-force statistical pattern matcher" but performs the same kind of concept-level pattern recognition as…

Author Brett Scott argues that Palantir Technologies should be renamed Orthanc Inc., drawing a direct parallel between the data-mining firm and the dark tower of the wizard Saruman in J.R.R. Tolkien's…

A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research examines how the United States managed to bend the health care cost curve. The analysis explores factors behind recent moderation in h…