I have now written multiple posts about AI (AI and its ambitions, Another comment about AI), and unsurprisingly, people have changed their views about it. History has shown us overzealous beliefs about technology replacing labour at a rapid pace will face pushback, especially when they want to do it on the cheap. There are now a lot of job openings for humans, for the specific purpose of improving the performance of AI/ LLM models. I obtain information from one firm on such j

At the end of King Charles and Queen Camilla's trip, DJT mentioned there should be more people like them in the United States. I had to chuckle at that. Why? Because of the entire history of this nation. The President would like there to be more people that are the product of the aristocracy....? Has he already forgotten about all of those "No Kings" protests? Where the point was there are Kings elsewhere, but the United States isn't one of those places? Also, in my previous

I already spoke about fiscal policies and the need for them in my earlier blog post (Fiscal policies), and thus taxation being one of the ways in which governments obtain revenue. It shouldn't come at a surprise that tax policy is hotly contested, especially since left wing and right wing parties oppose one another in the role of taxation. At the same time, there is debate even within the same political party on optimal tax policies. During the recent presidential campaign, I

As I have mentioned in my About me page, my background is in economics, which is thoroughly embedded in quantitative analysis. There isn't much qualitative analysis as understood by non-economics disciplines. One could make an educated guess that, quantitative data analysis will fail to incorporate a lot of pertinent qualitative considerations; conversely, qualitative analysis has severe limitations in the types of insights it can provide. Unfortunately, good quantitative ana