Comment on Significant Digits For Monday, July 2, 2018

Gov. Chris Sununu (R) said “almost all the governors get along” but there were two over the years “who nobody likes.” He called former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) “just a jackass” and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) “just a prick.”

Just published: The Wealth of Shadows: A Novel by Graham Moore. Neil Irwin: “In the late 1930s, as Hitler prepared the German economy for war, a secret team assembled in the U. S. Treasury Department to use economic tools to fight the Nazis. Their story is told in a terrific work of historical fiction out this week.” “The Wealth of Shadows by Graham Moore has the addictive readability of a good spy novel — yet is simultaneously one of the best economics books I’ve read in a long time.

The Washington Monthly finds that the vast majority of protests over the war in Gaza are happening at elite colleges and universities.

Time: “This is the point in the election cycle where both sides insist they are best positioned to end up with control of the Senate. Democrats have exactly zero margin for error this cycle if they want to hold onto the Senate, and four incumbents in particular—Senators Jon Tester in Montana, Bob Casey in Pennsylvania, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, and Jacky Rosen of Nevada—are the biggest targets.

From Jonathan Last: Republican voters. For 40 years it was dogma that Republican voters wanted a president who blended social and fiscal conservatism and waited his turn to run. In 2016, Trump understood that Republican voters no longer wanted any of those things. They wanted the craziest son-of-a-bitch available. The Republican party.

“It’s been less than two weeks since Google debuted ‘AI Overview’ in Google Search, and public criticism has mounted after queries have returned nonsensical or inaccurate results within the AI feature — without any way to opt out,” CNBC reports. An example: “When asked how many Muslim presidents the U. S.