Tags
Tags
A section answers what kind of thing is this; a tag answers what else is like it, across sections. A post has one section and any number of tags.
- Sources and method 8 posts
Posts where the work is the cross-check: two customs records, two freight indices, two definitions of the same word — and what putting them side by side showed.
- Prices 5 posts
What things cost and to whom: model prices per task, groceries by channel, a monthly city budget, container rates by route.
- Open data 5 posts
Built on datasets anyone can pull: customs records, parcel counts, urbanisation, platform hot lists, model releases.
- AI evaluation 3 posts
How AI work gets measured: building an eval set and watching it rot, error rates in support bots, cost per task rather than per token.
- Trade and logistics 4 posts
Goods on the move: who pays under each Incoterm, what a factory quote leaves out, what a container costs, how live-commerce money settles.
- Everyday China 6 posts
The habits and costs of daily life here, sorted into what has been measured and what is only habit.
- Rails and infrastructure 4 posts
The plumbing behind the behaviour — payments, parcels, platforms — and why the defaults look different here.
- Reference pages 4 posts
Short pages meant to be kept: tables, indices and checklists you come back to.
- Site notes 3 posts
How this site is made, what it ships, and what it refuses to do.