Learn how to implement a Builder Pattern in Java 8. Related Stories Builder Pattern and Inheritance | Continue reading
Discover when casting to String or using String.valueOf() is most useful. | Continue reading
Learn different approaches to performing update-or-insert operations using Spring Data JPA. | Continue reading
Forthcoming from the QJE, here is a new paper by Andrea Matanga: The Neolithic revolution saw the independent development of agriculture among at least seven unconnected hunter-gatherer populations. I propose that the rapid spread of agricultural techniques resulted from increase … | Continue reading
1. Are Indian women stronger relative supporters of Modi? 2. Apple to build on-device AI? 3. The remarkable economic recovery of Sri Lanka?. 4. “UK alcohol-related deaths up one-third on pre-pandemic levels…” (FT) 5. New Cass Sunstein book on campus free speech. 6. The Straussian … | Continue reading
Take a look at how the number of federal regulations and policies governing research at universities has dramatically increased over the years. This adding an enormous cost of doing research. (Source COGR) pic.twitter.com/ezqAsLUIIj — Denis Wirtz (@deniswirtz) April 20, 2024 Via … | Continue reading
Dobbs, of course, was the Supreme Court decision saying that the constitution does not provide a right to abortion, thus leading to restrictions on abortion in many states. The pictures is from The Economist, the original paper is here. The post Tying the Knot appeared first on M … | Continue reading
These are usually worth pondering, as at the very least you will learn something. Here is a hate-worthy paragraph from an earlier Bloomberg column of mine: …note that higher real estate prices, to the extent they result from immigrant demands, largely translate into capital gains … | Continue reading
Learn how to get the compressed data in a byte array when using the GZIP file format. | Continue reading
Explore the reasons behind the “Not a Managed Type” Exception in Spring Data JPA. | Continue reading
Explore the process of setting up Simple Java Mail and learn how to send emails, including attachments and HTML content, handle exceptions, and more. | Continue reading
If someone demographically normal and not especially at-risk wants to serve as a guinea pig, what is the optimal allocation of that resource? Is there any formal discussion of this question? I know they say “there is always an Effective Altruism blog post,” but is there? Mostly I … | Continue reading
1. Rasheed Griffith reggae playlist. 2. Poland got rid of compulsory homework for grade school. 3. Suicide rate trends for German teen females. 4. Important job ad for finding and cultivating talent in Brazil, no Portuguese required. 5. Plans for the REPO market? 6. Claims about … | Continue reading
The amazing Gukesh (17 years old!) is half a point ahead with one round remaining today. Three players — Nakamura, Caruana, and Nepo — trail him by half a point. Naka is playing Gukesh, and of course Naka will try to win. But what about Caruana vs. Nepo? Yes, each must try to win … | Continue reading
He is one of the greatest of living American historians, here is from Wikipedia: Alan Shaw Taylor (born June 17, 1955) is an American historian and scholar who is the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia. A specialist in the earl … | Continue reading
That is the new Daron Acemoglu paper, and he is skeptical about its overall economic effects. Here is part of the abstract: Using existing estimates on exposure to AI and productivity improvements at the task level, these macroeconomic effects appear nontrivial but modest—no more … | Continue reading
Two economists from the Harvard Growth Lab (Shah and Sturzenegger) estimate that the average transport costs for those who are employed in South Africa is equal to 57% of net wages when time to commute is accounted for. Here is the whole John McDermott tweet storm, in part that i … | Continue reading
1. Ross Douthat on whether the internet is the enemy of progress (NYT). 2. “This year, Sara and Justin Ilse finished building a floor for their home’s 230-square-foot entryway out of 65,507 pennies.” (WSJ) 3. Commentary on Zuck and Dwarkesh. 4. New open access book on Moonshots a … | Continue reading
Maybe, but maybe not: Amid the current U.S.-China technological race, the U.S. has imposed export controls to deny China access to strategic technologies. We document that these measures prompted a broad-based decoupling of U.S. and Chinese supply chains. Once their Chinese custo … | Continue reading
I saw the film as having very definite politics, and yes I am aware of the pronouncements of the director — ignore them! I am writing about the movie, what was on the screen. The seceding states — California, Texas, and Florida — all have substantial Latino population segments. T … | Continue reading
The post Dwarkesh interviews Mark Zuckerberg on Llama 3 and more appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Comments In reply to Naveen K. Absolutely wild comment. Dwarkesh comes ... by Alan M In reply to Blixy. I like that by Hugh In reply to Naveen K. I am thought Dwarkesh was too … | Continue reading
1. Andrej Karpathy on Llama 3. 2. The PEN awards are on the brink of collapse. 3. These were my fiscal, political and other predictions from 2010. 4. AI is being integrated into social media — now. Social media will change. 5. New Yorker Music critic Alex Ross cites Fischer Black … | Continue reading
When I post about the skyrocketing price of housing and the need to build, commentators (include some of the most astute commentators on MR), will sometimes object by pointing to the increasing and historically high number of houses per capita. They question how this aligns with … | Continue reading
Stream gatherers in Java 23, small additions in Spring, modern Jakarta EE, AOP logging, and Meta patterns! | Continue reading
With a group of friends I was having a chat about the merits of the current vs. past America. Battle of the Ancients and Moderns! I generally favor current times, but not unconditionally. So I promised them a list of what I missed from the past. To be clear, these are personal ju … | Continue reading
All of this is from Devin Pope, in response to Lyman Stone (and myself). Here was my original post on the paper, concerning the degree of religious attendance. I won’t double indent, but here is Devin and Devin alone: “I’m super grateful for Lyman’s willingness to engage with my … | Continue reading
Here is the audio, video, and transcript, along with almost thirty minutes of audience questions, filmed in Miami. Here is the episode summary: Tyler and Peter Thiel dive deep into the complexities of political theology, including why it’s a concept we still need today, why Pete … | Continue reading
Learn how to find the date of Easter Sunday for the given year using three algorithms in Java. | Continue reading
Explore the skip and limit functionalities within MongoRepository. | Continue reading
Learn how handling redirection correctly is essential for building robust web applications that interact with external resources. | Continue reading
Learn about overriding the toString() method and handling the potential null within. | Continue reading
Learn how to handle the symmetric substring expansion methods, taking into account the specific requirements such as input size and computational efficiency. | Continue reading
Learn how to download a file from S3 given a URL with Java and AWS SDK. | Continue reading
A quick and practical guide to customizing the logback.xml location. | Continue reading
Explore different ways of intercepting and adding custom headers for both server web requests and web client requests in Spring WebFlux | Continue reading
Discover the differences between PrintWriter's write() and print() methods. | Continue reading
Learn how to navigate through collections and arrays using the Iterator inteface and forEach() method. | Continue reading
Learn how to perform complex-number operations in Java. | Continue reading
A quick and practical guide to handling polymorphic structures with Gson. | Continue reading
Explore different methods to obtain the path to a resource within a Java JAR file. | Continue reading
Explore different options to convert a TemporalAccessor object to a LocalDate object in Java. | Continue reading
Learn to check if an element is in a Set in Java. | Continue reading
Learn how to send Spring Boot application logs to a Grafana Loki server. | Continue reading
Learn a few different ways to get the last n characters from a String. | Continue reading
Quick intro to Hibernate's @Struct annotation to create structured user-defined types. | Continue reading
A quick and practical guide to finding element by attribute in Selenium. | Continue reading
Learn how to take a Java collection of intervals and merge the overlapping ones. | Continue reading
Learn how to find map keys associated with duplicate values in Java. | Continue reading