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How Matthias Blübaum can win it all

He is playing in the current Candidates tournament as the lowest-rated player, a mere 2693. It is considered a semi-miracle that he qualified at all, and he is not given much chance of winning the tourney. And yet a path to the top remains. First, he has not lost any of his first four games […] The post How Matthias Blübaum can win it all appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsIn reply to HB. Players optimize against the statistical . by EP 20can it be said already that Uzbekistan is ...

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The gig workers who are training humanoid robots at home

When Zeus, a medical student living in a hilltop city in central Nigeria, returns to his studio apartment from a long day at the hospital, he turns on his ring light, straps his iPhone to his forehead, and starts recording himself. He raises his hands in front of him like a sleepwalker and puts a…

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My very interesting Conversation with Arthur C. Brooks

Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is part of the episode summary: Tyler and Arthur cover how scarcity makes savoring possible and why knowing you’ll die young sharpens the mind, what twin studies tell us about the genetics of well-being and why that’s not actually depressing, the four habits of the genuinely happy, […] The post My very interesting Conversation with Arthur C. Brooks appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesWhat should I ask Andrew Graham-Dixon?*The Ma...

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