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Saloni
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What are some articles, blogposts, essays, etc. that you still think about over a year later? Here are a few of mine:

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10 technologies that won't exist in 5 years — by @jacobtref.bsky.social Loved this framing of thinking concretely about what could exist in the near future but won't, due to poor incentives, limited research interest, funding and trial infrastructure, and more.

blog.jacobtrefethen.com10 technologies that won't exist in 5 yearsSome technologies are more important than others – indeed, some are life or death. Technological progress is not a mystical force that delivers the most important ones first. Some problems are hard to...
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That one weird third variable problem nobody ever mentions: Conditioning on a collider — by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci There were definitely multiple posts by Julia I could have picked, but it actually shocked me that I read this in 2017. Much to be said about how influential great blogs can be!

the100.ciThat one weird third variable problem nobody ever mentions: Conditioning on a colliderScroll to the very end of this post for an addendum.<fn>If you only see footnotes, you have scrolled too far.</fn> Reading skills of children correlate with their shoe size. Number of storks in an ar...