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As baby boomers downsize and millennials finally enter the housing market, they are in direct competition for similarly priced and sized homes. 

Whether we’re speaking about Haiti and the Dominican Republic or Canada and the United States, national comparisons are eye-opening. International comparisons can be extraordinarily revealing. Why, we might ask, is there such a divergence between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, two countries that occupy the same island? As the economist and prolific blogger Noah Smith has pointed out, as recently as 1960, the countries had roughly similar levels of per-capita GDP.

A historic event occurred at the end of April: According to estimates from the United Nations, India, with more than 1.4 billion people, surpassed Chi...

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We have a loose consensus in America on factors that drive costs and time up and quality down. What we don't have is consensus on how to get those factors under control.

ASX inches higher at open. US CPI print as expected but core inflation sticky. Allkem announces huge Livent merger.

AI2, the nonprofit institute devoted to researching AI and its implications, plans to release an open source LLM in 2024.

PaLM 2. GPT-4. Text-generating AI grows daily. Researchers cannot see how most of these models work because they are behind APIs. Open source AI is becoming as advanced as commercial AI. The Allen Institute for AI Research (AI2) will release the Open Language Model in 2024. AMD, the Large Unified Modern Infrastructure consortium, Surge AI, …

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

SEATTLE — James Couture, a world history teacher at West Seattle High School, noticed that some of his students who typically struggle with writing were turning in “bizarrely good” papers.