AI is already improving itself.

The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Musk, Trump, and Vance have chosen. If we attend to what Vance and Trump said yesterday, we can work our way to the unreason of American policy, and to the chaos that will follow. snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...

We use a new machine learning technique to identify the most cost-effective policies to boost immunization demand in India. We evaluated 75 combos of reminders, incentives, and local community ambassadors. The most effective increased immunization by 44%. https://buff.ly/4j0v3IF

Mycket bra. Betyder det att det finns en majoritet i riksdagen för Henreksons förslag nu? www.dn.se/debatt/vi-an...

Utmärkt förslag.

I just got the kids down for naptime so I wanted to take a second to point out two key problems (and a few areas of agreement) I see with this morning’s @emmagoldberg.bsky.social @nytimes.com article about effective altruism: 🧵 bsky.app/profile/nyt...

Hade jättegärna vaccinerat mig men jag får inte för jag bor i Stockholm 🙃 www.dn.se/direkt/2024-...

Svanberg från AI-kommissionen motiverar OSL-ändring för datadelning mellan myndigheter med att det ska underlätta forskning. Har kommissionen missat att det redan är tillåtet? (11kap 3§) sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/carl...

Looking very much forward to presenting my research on the inheritance of fields of study at the @tinbergeninstitute.bsky.social tomorrow!

I’ll be giving a new Econ msc-level course on applied methods/data science/AI tools starting this spring. Please send suggestions of topics to cover and best practices. (In addition to the awesome courses by @gmcd.bsky.social and @mattblackwell.bsky.social, of course!) #econsky

🧵 [1/8] Our latest research (with Olof Östergren, Evelina Björkegren, and Torsten Persson) published in PNAS sheds light on the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on already disadvantaged groups. Here's a thread summarizing our findings. 📉📈 #COVID19

Trying to answer an ethics review about why my data collection does not process personal data, but unsure. GDPR says IPs are PII. But web sites (servers) use IPs for content delivery. This means all sites, routers, etc process PII? Can this really be true? Is there a #gdpr-sky community yet :)?

As if she expected to win the Nobel, Claudia Goldin just published a new NBER working paper entitled "Why women won". www.nber.org/papers/w3176...

I was looking for a good example of Simpson's paradox for teaching and stumbled across this excellent one. Colored lines scientifically hand-drawn by me. Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...

Worked well! Awesome to find so many here already! Its happening!

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