Baran Peters

on the atlas — 5

• Applied LLMs - What We’ve Learned From A Year of Building with LLMs7 savers
• 1.1 Family fortunes: Jobs, wages, and the global macroeconomy – Macroeconomics1 savers
• Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity - METR4 savers
• The primal mark: How the beginning shapes the end in the development of creative ideas1 savers
• Curius / Onboarding2621 savers

highlights — 3

• And what matters for living standards is the real wage—how much you can buy with your earnings. If your wage rises by 2% but prices in the economy rise by 3%, you are poorer than before.

  1.1 Family fortunes: Jobs, wages, and the global macroeconomy – Macroeconomics

• While creative ideas are defined as both novel and useful, novelty and usefulness often diverge, making it difficult to develop ideas that are high in both. To explain this tradeoff between novelty and usefulness and how it can be overcome, this paper introduces the concept of the ‘‘primal mark’’—i.e., the first bit of content employees start with as they generate ideas, which anchors the trajectory of novelty and usefulness. In four experiments, participants started with primal marks that contained varying degrees of novelty. Results suggest that familiar primal marks foster usefulness at the…

  The primal mark: How the beginning shapes the end in the development of creative ideas

• he subject that interests him, he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade press. He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine, and he read arti

  Curius / Onboarding