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📣 Please repost 📣 We are hiring a staff Research Associate (pre-doc) at Columbia DRO! This is a great opportunity if you want to work on online platforms, urban economics, experiment design, or impacts of AI. Deadline to apply is May 15. For more info: business.columbia.edu/faculty/divi...

one recent learning from wearing an oura ring is that I burn a decent number of calories when giving an academic talk. just one more incentive to get out there and promote your research, i guess

nosferatu feels like a supercut of diablo iv cutscenes (non-derogatory), right down to the fact that ralph ineson (the voice of lorath in diablo iv) has a big role in the movie

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figured out my halloween costume for 2025: jeff proust

In the January/February 2025 Harvard Business Review (and online now): a new article that explains the steps that companies should follow to get better at experimentation hbr.org/2025/01/want... From me, Iavor Bojinov, Ramesh Johari, Sven Schmit and Martin Tingley

Good short thread qualifying the elite education graph that’s been making the rounds.

saw the new documentary about omar rodriguez-lopez and cedric bixler-zavala last night. 1st, the doc is so good. 2nd, it includes footage from this 2000 ATDI performance of one armed scissor on letterman, which i had never seen before. it goes so hard! www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7L-...

the way i pick up every spam phone call now hoping it's the survivor casting department...so embarrassing...

the way the norcal earthquake caused a tsunami warning that then got canceled made me realize how cruel it was to shake your world, cause a wave of emotions, and then call things off. if you give me another shot, we can build a relationship with a strong foundation on solid ground. hope you’re well.

If this is an RCT the SUTVA violations are gonna be insane for more on this topic, see: pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/...

“this actually involves you in the news” is a good one-liner of that Twitter magic that has felt missing for a bit.

“academic community from which the university should select my tenure letter writers” bluesky starter pack

1) having the guy who played Russ Hanneman record an announcement video on cameo when I accepted my job at Berkeley 2) tweeting about my stay in a London Airbnb that was basically a bathroom with a bed in it (link below): nypost.com/2023/07/11/m...

OK, one of my favorite things about X/twitter was the survivor community, so I’ve done the public service of putting together a #Survivor starter pack. Still very much a WIP - please reply with accounts I should add!

Seems like a nice interface to interact with LLM APIs in R

Proud to share my first NBER working paper. 17.5 million Redfin users were randomly assigned to see or not see flood risk on home listing; the treated users went on to make offers on less risky homes. First casual evidence that homebuyers are adapting to climate change www.nber.org/papers/w33119

I had a great time doing this interview recently with Gretchen Huizinga and Sid Suri for the Microsoft Research podcast. We talk about Sid's and my now years-long collaboration/bromance, as well as our recent work on prompt engineering. Please give it a listen! www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

Announcing a new working paper measuring the causal impact of generative AI on business performance in emerging markets! osf.io/preprints/os... This is joint work w/ Nick Otis (who led the project), Rowan Clarke, Solene Delecourt, and Rem Koning. More on our results below down👇 1/

Super interesting twitter thread re: GPT’s ability to add very large numbers:

Very excited by this recent paper by Naoki Egami and coauthors, which looks at how social scientists can conduct unbiased statistical inference when using LLM-generated annotations in their analyses: arxiv.org/pdf/2306.04746…