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Tyler Cowen shares a variety of links on diverse topics including education technology, art history, and the letter "a" being common at the end of girls' names. via The source of this content is Marginal REVOLUTION.

Rising labor costs are often blamed for the lack of ornamentation in modern buildings, but a new paper argues that a shift in elite taste towards simplicity, coupled with the decreasing cost of robotic stone carving, might be bringing ornate buildings back. via Marginal REVOLUTION.

Researchers tested using large language models to generate planning domain models from text descriptions, and found larger models showed promise. via Hugging Face.

Engadget reports that Google Search will now show AI-generated answers to millions by default. via Engadget

Google DeepMind introduces Gemini Flash, a lightweight AI model with two variants: 1.5 Flash and 1.5 Flash-8B optimized for speed and efficiency. Learn more about building with Gemini Flash and explore other Google DeepMind innovations on their website.

Needle-in-a-Needlestack appears to be a website with links to code and articles about large language models, including Llama 3.1 and GPT4o-mini.