It would be better if really nice things were not so damned expensive
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Oh god. I need to get my arsenic levels checked stat.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 3y agohow is this real?
If you’ve ever spent even one day in Mexico City, don’t miss this. tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl/index.html
a portrait of Tenochtitlan
a 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empire
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A nearby restaurant has the following appetizer on their menu: donuts drizzled with truffle oil, covered in pecorino and parsley, served with marinara sauce. $10.
from news.gallup.com/opinion/poll... nice context for some of the progress the country has made over the last 80-odd years on racial/ethnic prejudice.
David Friedman@profdaf.bsky.social · 3y agoThinking about this a bit. Adding a big dollop of nuance, but definitely on my mind.
The 10yo is obsessed with Seinfeld. And, strangely, Eraserhead.
🛰️ #envecon So one of our key findings was the size of environmental damages from satellite constellations determines whether the market will make them too big or too small relative to what's socially optimal Some evidence on those damages here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2313374120
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grand theft eigenvalue 🔆@akhilrao.bsky.social · 3y agoOligopoly competition between satellite constellations will reduce economic welfare from orbit use It's all in the title, folks. We're seeing unprecedented use of and market concentration in orbital space. How bad is it and what can we do? Find Out! https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2221343120
From yesterday's exhibits in US v. Sam Bankman-Fried: The prosecution shows that the "insurance fund" that FTX bragged about was fake, and just calculated by multiplying daily trading volume by a random number around 7500
I've developed a new forecasting tool! You tell me what your education intervention is, including the full details of how it changes teacher and student behaviors. Then I use advanced AI methods to predict that the effect size is 0.1 SDs. #econsky
Fun undergraduate econometrics exam essay in here somewhere
Health Nerd@gidmk.bsky.social · 3y agoThis is absurd. Study describes a "partially randomized patient preference design" In practice, this meant a non-random cohort study, with 90% of patients simply picking their preferred treatment Hilarious
Who do I know in Boston area who’s game for a dinner party next week?
Re: recent discussion about Katalin Kariko-- In 2009, Carol Grieder won the Nobel Prize for her work on telomeres. That same day, she got a notification that her NIH grant proposal was deemed not worthy of discussion due to "limited preliminary data."
Carol Greider - Same day, a Nobel prize and a grant rejection!
Carol Greider - Same day, a Nobel prize and a grant rejection.
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The fact Philly is not a coastal city and Chicago is just feels wrong.
The fact Philly is not a coastal city and Chicago is just feels wrong.
Hearing the two stories about Francesca Gino and Katalin Kariko within a short window of time is insane.
Me trying to remember the name of the RA that did all analyses of a seminal paper that got me a $500,000 salary.
Currently downloading 200k papers. Doing research with network data is fun. Accessing it is a pain.
Much progress is really just realizing existing rules were just dreamed up and aren't at all necessary.
Crowdsourcing ideas for a document of "solved problems worth solving". Structure: - Here is a problem and the real consequences - Other places have had the problem and solved it. - If 5-10 people spent a decade on it, they could prob solve it here.
Very cool— fit multivariate state space models with stationarity of the state process enforced by the Heaps prior. Potentially helpful to many of you. nicholasjclark.github.io/mvgam/articl...
New post on a management tool I’ve used over the last few years. For early stage projects, it can be a game changer. https://jimsavage.substack.com/p/the-share-out
I want to see a show like Alone but called “Together”. Groups have to form and survive in small tribes, allocating roles and dividing labor, creating lore, egging each other on. And fighting moose.
Summers Corollary: it takes as much effort to think about a policy reform that changes the world as changes academia; and only one of those matters; so you might as well focus on the world