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Massachusetts School Enrollment Dashboard

This interactive dashboard examines the gap between the predicted and actual enrollment in Massachusetts public, private, charter, and home schools.

wheelockpolicycenter.org

via @arpitrage.bsky.social, a pied-a-terre tax for unused faculty offices

Yeah, The Odyssey, the classic Greek tale about how people should defy Gods and that never goes badly

An unexpectedly pleasant feature of Varese is high tree cover for Southern Europe An expectedly pleasant feature is lawn cutting robots and underground car parks

Solar punk New York

excellent piece from @arpitrage.bsky.social

The High Cost of New York’s Rent Freeze

The Rent Guidelines Board’s vote provides relief to some tenants while leaving the city’s deeper housing problems unresolved.

cityjournal.substack.com

Another great read on this topic with some good ideas from @arpitrage.bsky.social for @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social www.vitalcitynyc.org/mamdani-rent...

After the Mamdani Rent Freeze

An agenda to fix New York City’s stabilized housing

vitalcitynyc.org

The RGB recently voted for a two year rent freeze on NYC rent stabilized housing I was the lone dissenting vote I've written two pieces here; which highlight the challenges of a rent freeze and where to go next www.vitalcitynyc.org/mamdani-rent... cityjournal.substack.com/p/the-high-c...

After the Mamdani Rent Freeze

An agenda to fix New York City’s stabilized housing

vitalcitynyc.org

NYC restaurants now offer prebiotics to reduce the hangover the next day

In the long run, there is no reason the US shouldn’t be the world’s dominant soccer country

Davelle in NYC has the best chicken katsu curry I’ve ever tried

The Real Deal writes on a proposal of mine to condition rental increases on building conditions in the rent stabilized stock therealdeal.com/new-york/202...

RGB member proposes “rent freeze for slumlords”

RGB member Arpit Gupta says landlords who don’t maintain buildings should see frozen rents.

therealdeal.com

They should move the goalposts closer so they can score more goals

Lipstick on a pig

Optimal World Cup play is to rack up the goal difference, but only Germany is ruthless enough to do so

Week six of my class on AI and Finance: Asset Management and Trading • Scaling laws for alpha • Distinguishing between spurious and genuine factors • Who captures value when markets get more efficient arpitrage.substack.com/p/6-signal-a...

Local Law 11 comes for NYU Stern

Proposal: either the United Kingdom fields one football team, or else each underlying nation declares independence; this is ridiculous

A romantic comedy between an AI lab employee who marries his boss to keep access to Fable, but then she visits his compute rich family and realizes he’s not rate limited after all

@arpitrage.bsky.social: "The opportunity for New York lies in becoming the primary destination for firms seeking to build the plumbing and deployment for AI across these different domains." www.vitalcitynyc.org/ai-economic-...

How New York City Can Come Out a Winner in the AI Age

Bet on the last mile of new technologies.

vitalcitynyc.org

Everyone is worried that AI will do to white collar jobs what automation did to blue collar work in the 70s. Fair concern! But the city has two big moats: regulation and proprietary data. My case for NYC as the capital of Applied AI in Vital City: www.vitalcitynyc.org/ai-economic-...

How New York City Can Come Out a Winner in the AI Age

Bet on the last mile of new technologies.

vitalcitynyc.org

We used to know how to make facades in this country

How hard can it be to get into the École Normale Supérieure? Every French person I know did it

The part of history I feel most unclear on is 800-900 AD

E24-24, my proposal to raise the IBC’s single-stair apartment building height limit from three stories to four, has passed the final membership vote, and will now officially make it into the 2027 IBC 🎉

Did not realize that Watergate was an urban courtyard design

Now Penn Station is on fire? In Japan the government would fall

Arpit Gupta@arpitrage.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In Japan, a high-ranking JR official would have lost their job over the delays I'm dealing with in this Amtrak

In Japan, a high-ranking JR official would have lost their job over the delays I'm dealing with in this Amtrak

The harmless torturer thought experiment from Derek Parfit in the wild!

James Murray@james-bg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is such a weak, imprecise, and shabby argument from Blair.