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2023/06/03
The mother of all distortions: Ethiopia's foreign currency peg
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Check your ideology at the door Perhaps the biggest economic topic in Ethiopia today is foreign currency. Sadly, much of the discussion arou...
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2023/04/01
"Attention" and "Transformers" in Large Language Models
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Everyone is talking about OpenAI's ChatGPT these days. Here's a very quick attempt to summarize the core idea behind la...
2022/07/27
Nile basin mechanism design
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Part 1 made the case for GERD in the short and medium term. Now for the really big picture The human population of the Nile basin will prob...
2022/07/25
The case for GERD
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As the third filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam ( GERD ) goes ahead, we should expect what is now becoming an annual uptick in m...
2022/06/03
The 4th wave of Bitcoin FUD
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I just came across Why This Computer Scientist Says All Cryptocurrency Should “Die in a Fire” . I can't find any point in there that ha...
2022/01/22
Doomsday argument
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And now for something completely different: a fun little probability puzzle. What's the probability that the human race will end some t...
2021/11/24
What happened in Ethiopia? Simplistic narrative
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My previous posts were deep dives for readers already familiar with the basic facts. Today, I just want to respond to this request: I could ...
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2021/11/14
Ethiopia and the ethnicity rat race - part 2: history
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Part 1 looked at ethnic federalism in Ethiopia through a geographic lens, and showed it has a bug: that it's not feasible to geographic...
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