@econfip.bsky.social welcomed Princeton University economist @atifrmian.bsky.social for a conversation on “Distribution matters: Why record inequality is a big macroeconomic problem.” Learn more about his view of unproductive consumer debt here: https://apple.co/40tXEOt

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Apart from the methodological issues which would make any density estimation based on those data irrelevant (convenience sample -> low external validity, answers could require intervals but not such option given etc.) > bsky.app/profile/adam...

🇩🇰 🤯 bsky.app/profile/elen...

Good (free) book on Concentration Inequalities www.stat.ucla.edu/~ywu/researc...

Healthcare in Greece is so privatised that you often see on TV specialist doctors of private hospitals advertising (indirectly or less so) their services. It may also mean that media owners do "invest" in healthcare

How Can Infinity Come in Many Sizes? www.quantamagazine.org/how-can-infi...

I have an open x account on which I got a very weird dm, will have to close it I guess

Spring round the corner

After reading a recent study about GLP-1 treatment in the International Journal of Obesity, David B. Allison immediately became skeptical about the paper’s analysis.

Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics mathoverflow.net/questions/23...

"when firms are neck and neck, rather than too far ahead or behind, there are strong incentives to innovate to escape competition" cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/publica...

Rookie Economist Errors from Trump's former Commissioner of Labor Statistics nominee econbrowser.com/archives/202...

So the principal deputy White House counsel and then White House Counsel to President Barack Obama was also close partner to Jeffrey Epstein. Makes you think why Obama's administration did almost nothing to expose the scandal and send those responsible to jail. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn...

Can we all agree that people have any right to demonstrate *within some limits* against a minister they consider terrible, but the minister has also any right to defend himself when the demonstrations go beyond those limits?

Only Greeks over 40 can guess what this UFO club was for

If you see a popular science or technology writer, his books are probably handled by the most powerful literary agency in the field: the famous Brockman Inc. 😐 newrepublic.com/article/1548...

Machine assistance and the future of research mathematics (Terry Tao) youtu.be/zJvuaRVc8Bg

A Brief History of Bjarne Stroustrup, the Creator of C++ youtu.be/uDtvEsv730Y

May be big thing to ask but does it not make sense to ask people to justify (ideally during a pre-registration) why they have set their type 1 error threshold to their given level rather than using a habitual threshold (e.g .05) without much thought?

Great but I asked a question (an elementary stats question that can be answered in any introductory time series book) and get bullshit response bsky.app/profile/brai...

"They are hopelessly inconsistent;they have no sense of their limits of their knowledge or abilities;they are comically suggestible;.This is all the more surprising because it is so far removed from popular expectations of what AI would be like:remorselessly logical" royalsociety.org/science-even...

Surely arrest isn't a define proof of guild but if not even an indication, wonder what works as an indication and why people are arrested if not because there are indications of their guilt.

Not sure about the main position of this article (that empirical risk minimization and implicit regularization gives rise to a falsificationist account of artificial neural networks) but should be an interesting read www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

The Isoperimetric Inequality and the Sobolev Inequality www.ams.org/journals/not...

What could possibly go wrong ? (this is what happens when extreme right idiots get to apply their ideas) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda_... bsky.app/profile/daph...

“a random variable that smoothly depends on the influence of many independent random variables satisfies Chernoff type bounds.” Talagrand, (1995) link.springer.com/article/10.1... bsky.app/profile/cubi...

Have no idea about the charges but have observed his posts in the past at twitter and was suspicious, to say the least bsky.app/profile/ahel...

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🆕 Mismeasuring learning: Beware of psychometric test scores Today on VoxDev, Prof. James Heckman (Harris School of Public Policy) & Jin Zhou (CityUHK) challenge the practice of treating test scores as measures of the same underlying ability across levels: https://ow.ly/C5LN50YgXml

"Hostility to technology, such as we often find among the Greens, is therefore a foolish kind of hostility to life itself - which the Greens have unfortunately not realized. But the critique of technology is not foolish, of course; it is urgently necessary."

A sad reality is that most public intellectuals are frauds and their intellect (or lack thereof) has little to do with their publicity.

A definition of Hausdorff space (T2 space) at Bourbaki's General Topology

Many are rightfully skeptical of the assessments of Western intelligence sources on account of the Iraq WMD debacle in 2003. Yet, the demonstrable disinformation by Russian sources in 2022 hasn't elicited the same skeptical response to many of those. This asymmetry is at least worth pondering why.

Seem to me AI fake photos and former Greek PM is the kind of person who would buy fakes for genuine

Vieta's formulas gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

"policymakers should be open to external critics of scientific findings and not rely solely on credentials when recognizing experts" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New YouTube video posted “The Joy of Coupling” Happy Valentine’s Day! youtu.be/rpW2ZYtXn6o?...

"Sometimes what we think are anomalies are not really anomalies, but the result of incorrect assumptions." cc @econmaett.github.io @robjhyndman.com robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/oz...

An antisemitic sponsored video @ youtube 😐

An interview of Elias Stein youtu.be/UWl_m0zIUUs

Lately, non-crossing partitions have shown up out of nowhere in my research, which have a lovely duality structure. This inspired some good art and fractals :) Wanted to share the fun here (just sharing the pretty art for now, the research story will come in due time) 1/4

"Mathematical structure is not an accessory to intelligent systems; it is their scaffolding. Without it, we are left with heuristics, pragmatics, and empiricism alone, powerful but fragile, effective yet difficult to justify when things go wrong." www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-02...

Goes beyond me that a corrupt uneducated unqualified man got somehow very wealthy and managed to influence and control some of the most powerful men of the world.

Simplistic rules for life are surely engaging but also almost always idiotic. The reality is far more complex than the oversimplification those rules provide (and on which they base their appeal)

Well overdue

This clown attempts to hide long term trend in much larger short term seasonal variabilty. bsky.app/profile/econ...

The #UCL World Cancer Day: Public Lecture streamed on Youtube is very (over)optimistic about the role of AI in drug design and in silico clinical trials (ouch). Computer people always overestimate the reliability of data. One day, perhaps (and perhaps not). www.youtube.com/live/T2um3A7...

"if authors are using LLMs to help with their citations and are not building time into their process to check the results, it seems fair to conclude that either 1) they don’t understand the errors LLMs tend to make very well, or 2) they don’t consider it a priority to get the facts right. "

Megamurderer governments