„Parental leave lasts 7.2 weeks for mothers and 3 days for fathers.“ The US is brutal www.minneapolisfed.org/research/ins...
The Landscape of Parental Leave-Taking in the United States | Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute
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No no that’s the spider that’s busy, the caterpillar is hungry
First the cricket World Cup and now this. 2026 eh
Molly Knight@mollyknight.bsky.social · 5mo agoTeam USA is getting destroyed by team Italy at the world baseball classic. 8-0.
I like this frame: Host leadership instead of Servant leadership martinfowler.com/bliki/HostLe...
bliki: Host Leadership
A leader acts as a host, creating space for participants to act.
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📚 My Struggle, Book 2: A Man in Love ★★★★½ via @popfeed.social
A ★★★★½ review of My Struggle, Book 2: A Man in Love
Review on Popfeed
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not surprised by this
koenfucius@koenfucius.bsky.social · 10mo agoThe Big Data fallacy 😱 Research by Vosgerau et al suggests decision-makers tend to interpret correlational relationships as causal when sample sizes are large (vs small)—even when given experimental evidence showing no or opposite causal effect: buff.ly/5ZjWJ8E
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Digital Distractions with Peer Influence: The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes,” by Barwick, Chen, Fu, and Li: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Digital Distractions with Peer Influence: The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes*
Abstract. Concerns about excessive mobile phone use among youth are mounting. We present estimates of both behavioral and contextual peer effects, along wi
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The only definitions of AGI that matters is the one that comes from the Deutsches Institut für Normung www.agidefinition.ai
A Definition of AGI
A definition and measurement of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
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With LLMs, execution is now cheap and ideas are expensive again. We are so back
German Reunification Day invites both gratitude and reflection. Gratitude, because the peaceful revolution of 1989 was nothing short of a miracle — a bloodless dismantling of a repressive regime. Reflection, because the wounds of the transition still mark the country —and because
It was fun (painful 😅) to implement VAR(p) models from scratch juanitorduz.github.io/var_numpyro/
Bayesian Vector Autoregressive Models in NumPyro - Dr. Juan Camilo Orduz
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You know it’s Friedrichshain because the Italians are in Neukölln
Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman.com · 11mo agoSitting in a vegan Chinese restaurant, listening to R&B, watching Rocky and Bullwinkle on the TV over the bar, listening to the table next to me speaking in Spanish, and thinking... ...this is what makes our country great
The good thing about the CD player is that I can hide it from the toddler, unlike the turntable below. Snaffled a live Talk Talk record, new Swans, old grinderman and some Steely Dan today.
Patrick@patrickdoupe.bsky.social · last yr.Friends, it pleases me to report that we, the CD loving public, are so so back
It’s a real shame that writers are too cowardly to touch fatherhood. I’d buy the shit out of those books.
Long weekend cycling in the alps ✅ Work tasks ✅ Break from family responsibilities ✅ Evening ICE from Berlin to Munich ✅ Beer ✅ Sun seeking ✅ Window seat ✅ Ready to tune out and listen to some shoegaze ✅ I open my AirPods case and the pods are at home
The answer is always, especially when you simply need to build, TWFE FTW
John Holbein@johnholbein1.bsky.social · last yr.With the recent diff-in-diffs upheaval, you may have asked: When can I get away with using two-way fixed effects? If so, check out this new working paper! It proposes tests for differences in dynamic treatment effects over cohorts, which allows you to explore when TWFE is likely to be biased.
Friends, it pleases me to report that we, the CD loving public, are so so back
Pleased to report that the kid now rides the whole way to and from Kita
After 18 years I'm finally back in an random effects versus fixed effects discussion 😎
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Most books I have read over the years are German novels and biographies from the 1920s and 1930s. To at least come closer, even if you can never really understand it. Here is my top 5. 🧵
Recommend this one. Great characters and amusing impressions of British village life. Also dark, weird, emotional.
