HeyJaredTaking Stock Newsletter
Curating science news on the state (and art) of livestock and agricultural development in poorer countries. For better lives and lands. Weekly (mostly).
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Taking Stock: AI liftoff (opens the original)
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AI is having a safety moment—Derek Thompson‘. . . Building AI requires two things: engineering (writing code) and research (deciding what code to write and what ideas to pursue). AI has already made extraordinary progress on the former in the last two years.The length of tasks that AIs can typically complete on their own used to double every seven months; now it doubles every four months.‘As a result, AI isn’t just writing more code; it’s wr
Taking Stock: The meat of the matter (opens the original)
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Meat preferences vary a lot across different countries—Hannah Ritchie and Pablo Arriagada<img alt="Stacked bar chart of meat supply breakdown by typ
Taking Stock: Global depopulation (opens the original)
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The great depopulation—Derek Thompson interviews University of Pennsylvania economist Jesús Fernández-Villaverde‘Derek Thompson: . . . Birth rates have been declining in developed countries for a long time, as child mortality has declined, as women’s education has increased, as female labor-force participation has soared, as contraception use has proliferated, and as modern notions of feminism have empowered women to take more control over their bodies and their economic futures. And birth rates
Taking Stock: Things rising (opens the original)
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After decades of drought, water is rising in the African Sahel—Fred Pearce (h/t Robin Reid)Warming has brought extreme rain to the parched Sahel, which is seeing aquifers refill as monsoons grow stronger. But heavier downpours alone cannot explain the groundwater revival, say hydrologists, who believe efforts to harvest rainfall may also be paying dividends.‘Near-extinct oryx are returning. Farms are prospering as irrigation water reaches fields for the first time in decades. Farmers are even nu
Taking Stock: AI in real life (opens the original)
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Artificial intelligence will widen the Africa Gap—John McDermott‘M-Pesa has a lot to answer for. ’Launched by Safaricom and Vodafone almost 20 years ago, the mobile-money service symbolises the idea that Africa can “leapfrog” stages of technological development. . . .’<span
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