August 2025 CPI “was released on September 11” at 2.9% yoy.

wow thanks google Gemini for predicting the future 😐

(I am gonna pass out if this is actually spot on)

Point metrics don’t tell you whether the model outputs align with the observed data distribution.

I.e., if the model has a good (low) RMSE but predicts a noticeably different distribution, it might be overfitting the center and neglecting the tails. Distributional metrics help identify this.

From trade tracker
www.brookings.edu/articles/tra...

Massive yoy percent increases in duties for March 2025 among top trading partners.

From trade tracker www.brookings.edu/articles/tra...

Advanced release Census data shows approx 50% yoy increase in U.S. consumer goods imports in March.

cannot stress enough how much this room needs a chandelier

From Japan’s Family Income & Expenditure Survey (FIES)

- largest increases in housing, durables, energy, and food
- expenditure on clothing hasn’t recovered since 2020
- culture/recreation almost back up to 2019 levels

ok i listened to a lot of Laufey this year.

#AppleWrapped

Overall interesting event at Brookings on AI + Climate.

Arguably, it was 80%:
1) mitigating the impact of AI driven energy consumption, and;
2) AI for mitigating climate risks (better seed varieties)

Sparse on solving climate change or hitting emissions goals, overall bearish on that.

Experimenting with the parameters for similarity score thresholds for RAG!

I asked a general Llama3 to evaluate and grade its own output. As the K top matches and similarity score increases, quality of the output drops precipitously!

tree in national portrait gallery stuns in new picture

as the next POTUS said himself

It’s giving Kuzan from #OnePiece