Reading Feed (April 2020)
A collection of things that I was glad I read. Views expressed by linked authors are chosen because I think they're interesting, not because I think they're correct, unless indicated otherwise.
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Blog: Balaji Srinivasan @ Medium | Peer Review of “COVID-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, California” — "The high reported positive rate in this serosurvey may be explained by the false positive rate of the test and/or by sample recruitment issues." (The punchline is that the false-positive rate of the test, after calibration, is [0,1.2%], and the study turns on a finding of a 0.9% infection rate.) h/t Tyler Cowen.
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Blog: Marginal Revolution | Ahem
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Blog: The Grumpy Economist | Ready to reopen?
Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | Evaluating Predictions in Hindsight
Blog: Marginal Revolution | Fast Grants, a project of Emergent Ventures against Covid-19, status update
Blog: Marginal Revolution | PPE Shortages and the Failure to Increase Prices
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Blog: Gregory Lewis @ 80,000 Hours | Reducing global catastrophic biological risks
Blog: MeyerWeb | Pseudo-Randomly Adding Illustrations with CSS
Blog: Marginal Revolution | CA Put Construction Into Limbo
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Blog: Marginal Revolution | The Jesús Fernández-Villaverde-Chad Jones epidemiological model
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Blog: Marginal Revolution | An econometrician on the SEIRD epidemiological model for Covid-19
Blog: The Grumpy Economist | SNAFU
Blog: Marginal Revolution | Why social distancing will persist
Blog: Marginal Revolution | From my email, a note about epidemiology
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Blog: Ben.Kuhn | College advice for people who are exactly like me
Blog: Marginal Revolution | Epidemiology and selection problems and further heterogeneities
Comic: SMBC | Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Life
Blog: What's New | John Conway
Blog: Marginal Revolution | What does this economist think of epidemiologists?
Blog: Shtetl-Optimized | John Horton Conway (1937-2020)
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Blog: Market Design | Market design seminars on Zoom, Monday afternoons in Paris
Blog: Marginal Revolution | Covid-19 testing in New Jersey
Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | Seemingly Popular Covid-19 Model is Obvious Nonsense
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Blog: Scott Kominers @ Bloomberg View | Markets Can Improve Rationing of Medical Supplies — Light survey of contemporary and tpoical work in medical market design.
Blog: Marginal Revolution | The economics of supply cut-offs
Blog: Market Design | Clearinghouses are hard to organize in a hurry: volunteer medical workers in NYC
Blog: Marginal Revolution | Does working from home work?
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Blog: Marginal Revolution | There’s No Such Things as a Free L̶u̶n̶c̶h Test
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Blog: Marginal Revolution | Pickles are underrated
Blog: The Grumpy Economist | Whack-a-mole: the long run virus
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Blog: Marginal Revolution | Thank You Bill Gates — "It’ll be a few billion dollars we’ll waste on manufacturing for the constructs that don’t get picked because something else is better,” Gates said in the clip. “But a few billion in this, the situation we’re in, where there’s trillions of dollars … being lost economically, it is worth it.”
Blog: Marginal Revolution | Trump Stops Masks from Going to Canada
Blog: Marginal Revolution | Tethered pairs and locational extremes
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Blog: Schneier on Security | Security and Privacy Implications of Zoom
Blog: Marginal Revolution | The fiscal multiplier during World War II
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Blog: Marginal Revolution | FDA Prevents Import of Masks
Blog: Marginal Revolution | We do not yet have testing “takeoff”
Blog: Marginal Revolution | Barriers to masks
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Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | Taking Initial Viral Load Seriously
Blog: Marginal Revolution | Small business aid through Fintech?
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