Friday assorted links
The article presents a collection of assorted links covering various topics. It includes discussions on economies of scale in homebuilding and the impact of Peter Thiel in Argentina. Other topics mentioned are AI-written dissertations and a conversation with Paul McCartney.
- ▪The article discusses economies of scale in homebuilding.
- ▪It features a piece on Peter Thiel's influence in Argentina.
- ▪There is a mention of AI-written dissertations and their prevalence.
- ▪A conversation with Paul McCartney is highlighted.
- ▪An algorithm for ranking venture capitalists is also discussed.
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| Original publisher | Marginal Revolution |
| Canonical URL | https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/05/friday-assorted-links-574.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=friday-assorted-links-574 |
| Publication time | Fri, 29 May 2026 18:08:16 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-29T18:15:02.429Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-29T18:15:02.429Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 8tpHGq6o8hkv · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Friday assorted links by Tyler Cowen May 29, 2026 at 2:08 pm 1. Where are the economies of scale in homebuilding? 2. Peter Thiel and Argentina (NYT). 3. Discourse on classical guitar. 4. How many dissertations are AI-written? 5. NYT talks with Macca. 6. New algorithm for ranking VCs. 0 Comments Facebook Twitter RSS Feed print Comments Sort by Top Sort by Recent Sort by Controversial <article class="blog-comment depth-<%= model.depth %>" id="blog-comment-<%= model.id %>" data-user-vote="<%= model.user_vote %>" data-vote-count="<%= model.vote_count %>" data-vote-total="<%= model.vote_total %>" data-updoots="<%= model.updoots %>" data-downboops="<%= model.downboops %>"> <div class="byline"> <div class="comment-meta"> <h3 class="comment-author"><%= model.author %></h3> <time…
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