These are miscellaneous links to information about a myriad of topics

A ranking of housing across 41 OECD countries. Metrics are expenditure as a percent of income, rooms per persons and the number of housing units with sanitation facilities. Although we have a lot of housing problems, the U.S. comes in at the top. Highest percentage of housing units with basic facilities. Second highest in rooms per person. Ninth from the top in affordability.

The chemistry of shampoos and the structure of hair at New York magazine. Who knew?

Chapter 7 of a book on training Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT using Python. Train an LLM on all my notes? Links to the chapters and code at GitHub. The published book by Sebastian Raschka will be released in August 2024

Grasshopper Control info from CSU

A review of a book on the Stockholm school of Economics

Robert Lucas. Thomas Sargent, a co-author on several papers with Lucas, summarized the many ideas that Lucas introduced (31 page PDF 2024)