What a time for this to drop

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

This was interesting info, but it seems like all it boils down to is build more homes.

"The intervention raised the pass rate in the national exam that determines progression from elementary to secondary school from 51% to 75%." drive.google.com/file/d/1aclW... Big substantive and persistent effects from a teacher professional development intervention in Uganda.

New Paper Alert Given my first gen roots, this paper was especially satisfying to research and write, even though the results are a bit disheartening. We use administrative data covering all North Carolina public school students, to document five facts about first generation excellence gaps…. .

another example of government deletion of politically-inconvenient research. bsky.app/profile/phil...

This feels reminiscent of the opportunity the US had in the early 1900s to pick up the best scientific minds when forced out of Europe. That set the foundation for today’s entrenched technological lead. Will another country finally have its chance to do the same?

I want to know what the conversation at home for JD Vance is like. “Yknow Usha, I just don’t think you should be here. A white American should have been in your spot at Yale Law”

Incorporating informative Bayesian priors offers the ability to learn more from experiments. @leoiacovone.bsky.social , @economeager.bsky.social & @dmckenzie.bsky.social demonstrate how to do this in the context of a Colombian exporting experiment. buff.ly/CwdGmKE

X, the everything app, is currently down. I guess Elon’s whole “this can run with 20%” of the staff or w/e may not be so accurate after all

Here’s a thoughtful and balance thread from @TimoBres.bsky.social about what went wrong and what didn’t go wrong with the apparent fraud in the recent paper about AI and scientific discovery

Wonder what the response is here. It’s certainly different from LinkedIn or Stackoverflow using their own data because they probably said so in ToS. Is it fair use since it’s producing a new intellectual good that is not explicitly replicating the original product?

There was some discussion about how ChatGPT etc would affect online social media content a while back on the old place. This was the first time I’ve seen the ideas in that discussion materialize in the wild. Social content without a personal scarcity to it is repulsive to users.

Does anyone have an estimate for the number of people on US student visas that leave the US annually due to the end of their OPT work authorization?

Academics might miss the industry implication for this; automating alpha signal discovery with AI is possible. This is a big deal because it means that statistical trading strategies are going to start decaying very quickly. What will remain profitable in quant finance? 1/

I speculated about this on the old site. I think there will both be a reallocation to higher value tasks but also a reduction in the number of grad students overall.

An absolutely based take in response to the polio vaccine discourse.

Fully agree. Verifying a result is a critical value add to science. We should incentivize this type of work. Currency in this realm is reputation so citations make sense. One risk is that we incentivize repeated replication of popularly cited papers. Norm could be only first replication.

The purpose of a system is what it does.

South Korean president recently tried to instate martial law. It seems that it is being lifted after a vote by parliament so it should be fine. One thing I found very interesting is that an event that may be an input to the martial law decision by the president is striking doctors. Weird right? 1/

Heard on my feed that it’s called a “Skyline”. What’s a post called? A smoke signal? “Did you see my latest smoke signal?”

Just saw a really really old resume of mine from back in college when I had no experience, no skills, and no idea of what a resume should look like. It's tough getting started on a career with nothing to advertise as experience or skills. It gives me a new perspective on recruiting.

“Seventy percent of the illegal weapons seized from criminals in Mexico come from your country. We do not produce these weapons, nor do we consume synthetic drugs. Tragically, it is in our country that lives are lost to the violence resulting from meeting the drug demand in yours”

The answer, almost surely, was convergence.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

Chat GPT is a very supportive language tutor.

It’s beginning to seem like electing the Don is the US’s Brexit moment. After he comes into office and enacts all the tariffs we’ll hear a sea of stories about ppl who voted for him and thought “doesn’t the other country pay tariffs?” Can’t wait to post this meme.

Today’s poem is called ‘The Importance of the Oxford Comma’.

A classic: self-serving politician does not understand the system but wants to abuse power to implement self-serving goal without realizing they are shooting themselves and everyone else in the foot. We need to brainwash ppl in schools so they know more lanes does not reduce traffic.

Borelli Cantelli, Markov, Chebyshev, Slutsky, Chernoff, Jensen. What am I learning right now?

Thank the gods for Indicator random variables being nonnegative so I can invoke the Monotone Convergence Theorem.

A sad aspect of Blue Sky is that there does not appear to be a "Bookmarks" features.

Getting in on the ChatGPT "What you know about me" post "Here is an artistic representation of your life as an ambitious academic with diverse interests and achievements."

This is a cool feature. Being able to find new content on demand with a post like this is both great utility and highly shareable. Would love to see more of it in different ways, e.g. !makemelaugh. Also this is a very accurate depiction of the content I interact with lol.

!foryou

Heard a good idea recently: If no one’s doing the job, you’re elected. Reminds me a lot of the message in the Interpersonal Dynamics course in Yale’s MBA program.

Karikó articulates brilliantly why prestige is such a critical variable if you want to understand the scientific ecosystem! This is why our group at CU Boulder (w/ @aaronclauset.bsky.social) focuses on unpacking the mechanisms and impacts of prestige in science. It's fascinating and important!

hello world

Seems like this place is starting to open up! Will try to start posting again

Rule of thumb for coders: If the #git commit message runs out of characters, it’s because you did too many things before making a commit. Commit more frequently.

Get in loser, we’re moving to Threads.

Kind of cool to be living through history! The last time we had this much movement in the social media space was the Wild West of mid 2000’s with things like MySpace, FB, Hi5, etc. I guess Elon buying Twitter is what Econs mean by “external shock”.

Cross posting so you can see what idiocy looks like.

Lmao

This is one of the reasons we need social media interoperability so that it is easier to find our communities as we move across platforms. To think that there will only ever be the one perfect platform that serves all our needs forever is misguided.

You can only read 600 posts per day on Bluesky because that’s how many there are

The blue sky app icon is really cool.

Hello world!