David Hugh-Jones
@hughjonesd.bsky.social
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Social scientist. Newsletter at wyclif.substack.com.
Macs have a GPU to do fast matrix operations. Statistics involves lots of matrix operations. R is a language for statistics...
hughjonesd.github.io/Rmlx
#Rstats
#mlx
@rstats.bsky.social
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R Interface to Apple's MLX library for GPU-accelerated arrays
An R interface to Apple's MLX library, allowing array operations on Apple Silicon GPUs and CPUs. Features include shared memory between the chips, CUDA support, lazy evaluation and automatic different...
https://hughjonesd.github.io/Rmlx
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What we talk about when we talk about "ancestry"
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What we talk about when we talk about "ancestry"
Political decisions versus scientific descriptions; ancestry versus ethnicity; ancestry proportions versus individual variants
https://open.substack.com/pub/wyclif/p/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about?r=2k7zr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Adam Smith’s second big idea
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Adam Smith’s second big idea
Liberalism is challenged by gains from scale
https://open.substack.com/pub/wyclif/p/adam-smiths-second-big-idea?r=2k7zr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
about 2 months ago
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A way to think about scientism
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A way to think about scientism
All just data journalists with pretensions
https://open.substack.com/pub/wyclif/p/a-way-to-think-about-scientism?r=2k7zr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
5 months ago
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100% this. Citation farming, like most forms of academic careerism, is a degrading game played for absurd and/or tiny rewards.
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5 months ago
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Behavioral economics Also: no political Coase Theorem Also: my entire life
5 months ago
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Featuring Ain't Going to Goa (Alabama 3)
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Cultural surrender: a comment from a reader
Why the negativity?
https://open.substack.com/pub/wyclif/p/cultural-surrender-a-comment-from?r=2k7zr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
6 months ago
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Reflections on Britain's triage-ward state
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Reflections on Britain's triage-ward state
But first, a detour about a dog
https://notes.archie-hall.com/p/reflections-on-britains-triage-ward?r=2k7zr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
6 months ago
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Moar data
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The cultural surrender of the European middle class: part 2
Religion, work and attitudes
https://open.substack.com/pub/wyclif/p/the-cultural-surrender-of-the-european-fb5?r=2k7zr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
6 months ago
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Quite interesting to hear what would, a few years ago, have been a very conventional argument. Now it reads as almost contrarian.
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6 months ago
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A little post with some data
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The cultural surrender of the European middle class: part 1
Data on marriage and family
https://wyclif.substack.com/p/the-cultural-surrender-of-the-european
6 months ago
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A lot of people talk about it but when they start doing it…
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7 months ago
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Oskar Pettersson
7 months ago
Happy to see my first thesis article out in Behavior Genetics!
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Raising the Floor? Genetic Influences on Educational Attainment Through the Lens of the Evolving Swedish Welfare State - Behavior Genetics
Interest in the role of genetics in influencing key life outcomes such as educational attainment has grown quickly. However, the question of whether genetic influences on educational attainment, on av...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10519-025-10219-z
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Trade wars, what else?
This conflict can easily spill beyond economics into something worse
https://open.substack.com/pub/wyclif/p/trade-wars-what-else?r=2k7zr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
7 months ago
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The Unjournal (Unjournal.org)
7 months ago
Top-5 journals in economics (#econsky) desk-reject half of submissions. Your globally-impactful paper is a diamond in the rough – how to get it taken seriously? Submit it to
unjournal.org
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The Unjournal
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bit of nostalgiaposting
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London in the 2000s
Shouldn't more have come out of that scene?
https://open.substack.com/pub/wyclif/p/london-in-the-2000s?r=2k7zr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
7 months ago
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The graduate visa route needs tightening, because it is very obviously being used as a migration back door. I mean, if you want more migration, then argue for it, but be frank about it.
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7 months ago
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This is what's wrong with mental-healthism
We have developed the collective habit of diagnosing ourselves and those around us with mental health disorders.
https://open.substack.com/pub/wyclif/p/this-is-whats-wrong-with-mental-healthism?r=2k7zr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
7 months ago
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So if you get tariffed 10% but your competitors get tariffed 20% or more, you may gain market share or even increase total sales. I wonder which industries this might apply to.
7 months ago
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Whilst markets are crashing, let's not forget the Ukrainian madlad who posted his underwear on the camp flagpole
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The Ukrainian teens who took on Putin’s gulag archipelago — and won
When Vlad and his friends realized the Kremlin would not return them home, they staged an open revolt.
https://www.politico.eu/article/save-ukraine-children-russia-war-camps-return-home/
7 months ago
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This deserves to be a meme
7 months ago
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I like everything about this paper except for the venue...
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7 months ago
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Nature Portfolio
7 months ago
How do genetics relate to socioeconomic status? A study in Nature Human Behviour explains how historical social stratification is visible in the genetics of populations today, and what this means for our understanding of social inequality.
https://go.nature.com/42k0xTM
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ChatGPT always lies in exchange for a donation to charity, or itself
Lying experiments are well-known in behavioural economics.
https://open.substack.com/pub/wyclif/p/chatgpt-always-lies-in-exchange-for?r=2k7zr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
8 months ago
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Shocking lack of opsec. Everyone knows you should use Facebook Messenger 😭
8 months ago
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I'm sorry
8 months ago
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It's not even that these people want to politicize academia. They want to cosplay at politics. "Aim like storm troopers!" So exciting and retweetable
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8 months ago
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No, you absolutely should not stand up for the creepy authoritarianism of the DEI people. They are exactly the same people who will now bend the knee to creepy right-wing authoritarians.
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8 months ago
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God as a programmer
Some more weekend theology
https://open.substack.com/pub/wyclif/p/god-as-a-programmer?r=2k7zr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
8 months ago
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Heisenberg & Dirac on a cruise: 'Why do you dance?' Dirac asked his companion. 'When there are nice girls, it is a pleasure,' Heisenberg replied. Dirac pondered this notion, then blurted out: 'But, Heisenberg, how do you know beforehand that the girls are nice?'
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Paul Dirac - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dirac#Personality
8 months ago
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Whoda thunk
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8 months ago
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Things I don't know
Not a complete list, of course
https://open.substack.com/pub/wyclif/p/things-i-dont-know?r=2k7zr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
8 months ago
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Guess what? The deans, admin etc. who were spineless in the face of left-wing mobs are unlikely to be courageous when facing right-wing bullies.
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8 months ago
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Book: Isaac Bashevis Singer's The Penitent
Art changes your life while leaving it the same...
https://open.substack.com/pub/wyclif/p/book-isaac-bashevis-singers-the-penitent?r=2k7zr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
8 months ago
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American desperation
Why the US is acting like a parody of King Lear
https://open.substack.com/pub/wyclif/p/american-desperation?r=2k7zr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
8 months ago
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Thiemo Fetzer
8 months ago
Diverging media attention on geographic flash points may be indicative of escalation risks — or opportunities.
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No longer available on X!
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Reacting to a very bad weekend
Apologies for the hiatus.
https://open.substack.com/pub/wyclif/p/reacting-to-a-very-bad-weekend?r=2k7zr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
8 months ago
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Ah, WSB
8 months ago
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Super nerdy but I joined in:
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8 months ago
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Sascha O. Becker
8 months ago
It was time to donate again to the 🇺🇦 Kyiv School of Economics led by the amazing
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@mylovanov.bsky.social
🇺🇦 If you want to support KSE in these tough times 👇
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Home - KSE Charitable Foundation
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The Unjournal (Unjournal.org)
9 months ago
Do IFLScience even if it risks “dangerous forms of bioterrorism”? Matt Clancy's models: on balance, yes, it's ~60x better to give $1 to science than to a guy earning $50k/yr . #Unjournal commissioned 3 expert evaluations, and Clancy responded in detail:
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Evaluation Summary and Metrics: “The Returns to Science In the Presence of Technological Risks”, Unjournal applied Stream
Evaluation Summary and Metrics: “The Returns to Science In the Presence of Technological Risks" for The Unjournal.
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Gabrielius Landsbergis
9 months ago
Once again I am leaving the Munich Security Conference in a low mood. Amongst all the noise, the US signalled their plans for Europe, so things are becoming clearer. But things are clearly not good. This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:🧵1/17
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9 months ago
I am very excited to share this latest preprint! We figured out how to study a latent index driving partner choice without measuring it directly. The genetic correlates that we uncover with this latent index can be used to study the process of partner choice and correct GWAS for assortative mating.
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Mark Chadbourn
9 months ago
80th day of the protests in European Georgia. This is Tbilisi tonight. Look at that crowd. 80 days of this. That’s how you resist a Putin-backed coup.
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Paolo Crosetto
9 months ago
Ongoing experiment: - publish a paper on scientific publishing, MDPI being an outlier in *every* metric: ✅ - get invited to MDPI Special Issue on *antioxidants*: ✅ - send *that* paper: ✅ - "submission welcome": ✅ - add antioxidant to abstract & submit: ✅ Will it be sent to reviewers? Stay tuned!
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US Democrats and Republicans as authoritarian cults, but in different ways
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Two authoritarian cults
Putting the horror of the Democratic and Republican parties under a game theory lens
https://open.substack.com/pub/wyclif/p/two-authoritarian-cults?r=2k7zr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
9 months ago
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That's all we needed
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2024 YR4 - Wikipedia
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Thought bubble: I am pleased to report that AI is now a better poet than William McGonagall
Others may use objective, science-based tests like Humanity’s Last Exam. I prefer a more artistic question: can AI write a good poem on the Tay Bridge disaster of 1879? Last time I checked results wer...
https://open.substack.com/pub/wyclif/p/thought-bubble-i-am-pleased-to-report?r=2k7zr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
9 months ago
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I dunno man, over there John Sweeney is John Sweeney. Here it's "a 60 year old sissy from Vermont" and/or some MBA dude
9 months ago
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The Unjournal (Unjournal.org)
9 months ago
Evaluation Summary and Metrics: "The animal welfare cost of meat: evidence from a survey of hypothetical scenarios among Belgian consumers"
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Evaluation Summary and Metrics: "The animal welfare cost of meat: evidence from a survey of hypothetical scenarios among Belgian consumers"
Evaluation Summary and Metrics: "The animal welfare cost of meat: evidence from a survey of hypothetical scenarios among Belgian consumers" for The Unjournal.
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