excellent paper. worth reading for anyone interested in competing AI models.

Generative AI meets math! Terence Tao weighs in on AI solving Erdős problems and its impact on discovery. Explore the future of math in The Atlantic: https://bit.ly/4d5VqMM

My kids reaping: Yay! Throwing toys everywhere! Woo!! My kids sowing: I don't want to clean up! This is unfair!

Perplexity has a bit of an attitude today… yeesh.

Subtract 30, divide by 2 is a decent approximation to converting from degrees Farenheit to degrees Celsius across ambient temperatures.

I’m talking about AI slop next week in my Economics of AI class. Please send me your most ridiculous examples.

Second day of Spring break- I’m finally caught up on emails! Now for research…

This new QJE paper concludes that the macroeconomic costs of climate change are far greater than earlier estimates suggested. It finds that a 1°C rise in global temperatures reduces world GDP by over 20%.

Job amenities are key for the gender wage gap, from R. Jason Faberman, Andreas I. Mueller, and Ayşegül Şahin www.nber.org/papers/w34877

Sam Altman picked a hell of a day to basically urge the world to trust the morality and legal restraint of the Department of Defense

time traveler from 12 months from now just sent me this

So does Bluesky like LLMs now?

My workflow now: ChatGPT/Codex for agentic tasks and coding work (insanely generous with tokens), Gemini Deep think for theory work, and Claude Cowork for just about everything else.

People who have been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, and lived to tell the tale - a large number are awarded posthumously - say it's for the worst day in your life, which you wish never happened. And Trump jokes about getting one.

If dinosaurs have your household in a chokehold like mine (2.5 yr old son) this is BIG news www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/s...

I refuse to let the party boys getting hammered with the FBI director dictate my memories of a special moment that left me in tears. (Gift link). share.inquirer.com/gRSHvh

We have to rethink everything.

Embarrassing confession: I currently have no agents or sub-agents running in the background.

Scientists at Stanford Medicine develop a universal nasal spray vaccine that protects against the common cold, flu, COVID-19, and allergies. Successful mouse trials show the jab mimics immune signals to provide broad, multi-month protection, potentially replacing annual shots.

For those confused: this is what a patriot looks like.

How cool is it that that a woman who went to medical school in Minnesota and learned to cross country ski here is the first Mexican female to compete in the sport in Olympics. And Jessie Diggins met her at the finish line. The video is heart-melting.

Apologies for bringing over content from the bad place, but this comment from Boris Cherny (creator of Claude code) is very revealing. Stop assuming that AI is going to make us all useless. Jobs will likely change, not disappear. AI excels at prediction but sucks at judgement. We still play a role.

So I predict the rise of the ol’ boys (now hopefully also girls) network model: people will rely on recommendations by trusted people who have directly engaged with the candidates, and little else. 6/

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

My least tech savvy coauthors are all getting an upgrade youtu.be/YLQvQ2MD2Y8

APE update: we retested recent frontier models on whether they still comply with requests to persuade on extreme harm (terrorism, sexual abuse). GPT-5.1 & Claude Opus 4.5 → near zero compliance. But Gemini 3 Pro complies 85% with no jailbreak needed. 🧵

Incredible.

The progression of agentic AI in the past few months is truly remarkable. My workflow now involves setting up a virtual graduate assistant to run and validate experiments overnight and report results in the morning.

And now for the most academic (and accurate) take on the Bad Bunny halftime show...

When we use smartphones to respond to surveys, compared to a laptop or tablet, we're more likely to answer incorrectly, or say we don't know. Economist @carlyurban.bsky.social is calling this "the smartphone penalty" in a new working paper. www.marketplace.org/episode/2026...

I need to test this more but I believe Claude Opus 4.6 might've broken Pangram. It definitely seems to be able to take Pangram's initial analysis and make changes that avoid further detection. Alas, AI detection tools, as many of us have believed for awhile, are not a viable long-term solution.

OpenClaw is very cool. But I wouldn't recommend anyone use it. It's a security nightmare. 1password.com/blog/from-ma...

Random agent running on someone's mac mini: "Everything is wrong. You fools!" www.clawxiv.org/abs/clawxiv....

Should you want to browse through the new academic public sphere of papers fully written by autonomous AI agents www.clawxiv.org

I setup Claude Code and Openclaw onto a Mac Mini I have at home. I then texted Openclaw via WhatsApp to pull data from the BLS, plan a research project, run a series of regressions via Stata, save the do and log files, and report the results. This is wild.

OpenAI launching an overleaf competitor seems like it could be a big deal, and particularly interesting in wake of the NeurIPS hallucinations discourse (an important issue, but a lot of the back-and-forth I saw seemed to be missing a lot of important factors): openai.com/index/introd...

It's 2001... 2003... 2004... 2007... 2011... 2014... 2016... 2017... 2018... ugh, 2026 and the Patriots are headed to the SuperBowl.

Worth noting that the @wsj.com has joined with the @nytimes.com and Bellingcat to say that ICE is lying in its description of the shooting of Alex Pretti. The video evidence more and more supports the view that this was a gratuitous execution. www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

I’m not voting to fund this lawless violence. Trump’s abuse of power is tearing us apart. We have 3 years left of this presidency. Either we stand up and protect our democracy now, or we risk going down a path that is unthinkable, will hurt countless people and do irreversible damage to our country.

Media: do not lead with the false government framing of what happened

I recently spoke with the Philly Voice about Sheetz moving into WaWa's home turf and what that means for consumers. www.phillyvoice.com/sheetz-wawa-...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. dedicated his life fighting for equity and justice. He taught us that even in the face of intimidation and discrimination, we must never stop working towards a better future – a lesson that feels especially relevant today.

Also new in v1.114 today: cashtags! Like hashtags, but for stocks. Tag your posts with #$AAPL, #$NVDA, whatever, then tap to see everyone else's equally unqualified analysis!

This man was convicted and sentenced to 22 years in prison for attacking the federal government before Trump pardoned him. Now he works for the federal government.

If you're able to do something about this - it sounds extraordinary to say, but genuinely millions of lives are at stake.

Petullo is out.

Rumor is that Petullo is out...