Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
This shows the relative change from state to state from last year. Unsurprisingly, folks were inclined to leave high-tax states like New York and my own California and head toward places like Texas. These aren’t monstrous changes: for instance, in California’s case, imagine a stadium of 10,000 people and 25 people leave to visit the bathroom (permanently). It isn’t that big a shift.
The Knight family has nothing but Teslas.
A few days ago, I was awfully proud of myself, because I made my first working product using AI. It wasn’t much of a “product“, but it was a webpage that I really needed which would normally have cost me hundreds of dollars to have someone make. Armed with ChatGPT, little old me did it for free in about five minutes.
I have cautioned myself about cranking out AI-based pages left and right, though, for one simple reason: even with the pro-level AI service that I pay for, it is slow, slow, slow. I was reminded of this just now when I wanted to ask a simple question about my mortgage. I asked Grok.
We are interested in markets here on Slope, and lately there has been an explosion lately in what are essentially legalizing gambling sites known as prediction markets. The largest is Polymarket, where you can be on just about anything imaginable, including this unlike scenario:
