Brice
@brice.green
Finance PhD student at MIT Sloan studying consumer / household finance, climate change, and insurance
Some thoughts on LLMs and automated social science: brice.green/blog/2026-06...
2026-06-29 The Hypothesis Space is Boring
Perhaps against my better judgement I’ve started working on a paper studying the use of LLMs as stand-ins for humans for, e.g., polling, A/B testing, and social science research.
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It all makes more sense when you realize banning air conditioning is Europe's way of managing their pension obligations.
Underdiscussed that n-d chess gets easier as n grows because it becomes nearly impossible to capture pieces in high dimensions.
A really lovely album for the beginning of spring open.spotify.com/album/0Blf8v...
FLUGEL
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To date, HCI researchers have had no support on signaling their paper's relevance to AI, esp. when that connection is tenuous at best. We introduce a systematic framework to ensure LLMs are mentioned at every stage of paper reporting—from framing, to evaluation, to implications.
A statement from Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, on our discussions with the Department of War. https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war
Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI
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sotd: open.spotify.com/track/0C7Abl... This might be my favorite Josh Ritter album. Between this and another new world it's just so good.
The Curse
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i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript) you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS lyra.horse/x86css/
I wrote about how I don’t know math but still am somehow a successful computer scientist. I have strong feelings about this. But I also want to understand. togelius.blogspot.com/2026/02/math...
This seems like a pretty big deal? Within chain parallelization of MCMC on the GPU. Can't say I understand how it works but wow
“Parallelizing MCMC Across the Sequence Length”: This one is really cool. | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Real question how is moltbook not just subreddit simulator at scale ? What's new here?
Bloomberg reporting seems to reflect broad skepticism about the ability of the EU to force US asset sales, but couldn't they just change the risk weights for treasuries w/r/t capital requirements? That seems like a continuous lever to cause a treasury selloff. Is there something I'm missing?
Been listening to Geese a lot, Getting Killed is such a good album
Spotify – Web Player
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Very neat stuff: arxiv.org/abs/2601.05444 'What Functions Does XGBoost Learn?' - Dohyeong Ki, Adityanand Guntuboyina
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
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Fascinating how many times NYT interviewers have to strategize to "try to get Trump to think about something." It doesn't speak to a coherent mental state to say the least. He comes of as a racist, rambling, feeble man who has no idea what his admin is doing. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/p...
An Interview With the President
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Wrote up my little experiment working with Claude to update a Discord bot. It's here if anyone is curious brice.green/blog/2025-12...
2025-12-28 A First Experiment with Claude
I’ve been using Claude Code a bit on and off for a couple projects, mainly for fixing research data workflow (fixing my makefile, writing better bash utilities), but I hadn’t really fully vibecoded so...
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I've been playing around with using small language models as SQL generators for natural language queries and it works surprisingly well! A lot of sensitivity to examples in the prompt but still it's pretty handy.