It would be better if really nice things were not so damned expensive

Oh god. I need to get my arsenic levels checked stat.

Why are panpipes?

If you’ve ever spent even one day in Mexico City, don’t miss this. tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl/index.html

A nearby restaurant has the following appetizer on their menu: donuts drizzled with truffle oil, covered in pecorino and parsley, served with marinara sauce. $10.

from news.gallup.com/opinion/poll... nice context for some of the progress the country has made over the last 80-odd years on racial/ethnic prejudice.

It’s so good.

The 10yo is obsessed with Seinfeld. And, strangely, Eraserhead.

🛰️ #envecon So one of our key findings was the size of environmental damages from satellite constellations determines whether the market will make them too big or too small relative to what's socially optimal Some evidence on those damages here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2313374120

From yesterday's exhibits in US v. Sam Bankman-Fried: The prosecution shows that the "insurance fund" that FTX bragged about was fake, and just calculated by multiplying daily trading volume by a random number around 7500

I've developed a new forecasting tool! You tell me what your education intervention is, including the full details of how it changes teacher and student behaviors. Then I use advanced AI methods to predict that the effect size is 0.1 SDs. #econsky

Fun undergraduate econometrics exam essay in here somewhere

Skip leg day? Worry not.

Who do I know in Boston area who’s game for a dinner party next week?

Re: recent discussion about Katalin Kariko-- In 2009, Carol Grieder won the Nobel Prize for her work on telomeres. That same day, she got a notification that her NIH grant proposal was deemed not worthy of discussion due to "limited preliminary data."

The fact Philly is not a coastal city and Chicago is just feels wrong.

The fact Philly is not a coastal city and Chicago is just feels wrong.

Metascience in one tweet

Hearing the two stories about Francesca Gino and Katalin Kariko within a short window of time is insane.

Me trying to remember the name of the RA that did all analyses of a seminal paper that got me a $500,000 salary.

Currently downloading 200k papers. Doing research with network data is fun. Accessing it is a pain.

Much progress is really just realizing existing rules were just dreamed up and aren't at all necessary.

Crowdsourcing ideas for a document of "solved problems worth solving". Structure: - Here is a problem and the real consequences - Other places have had the problem and solved it. - If 5-10 people spent a decade on it, they could prob solve it here.

Very cool— fit multivariate state space models with stationarity of the state process enforced by the Heaps prior. Potentially helpful to many of you. nicholasjclark.github.io/mvgam/articl...

New post on a management tool I’ve used over the last few years. For early stage projects, it can be a game changer. https://jimsavage.substack.com/p/the-share-out

I want to see a show like Alone but called “Together”. Groups have to form and survive in small tribes, allocating roles and dividing labor, creating lore, egging each other on. And fighting moose.

probably should have typed out lake shore drive

Summers Corollary: it takes as much effort to think about a policy reform that changes the world as changes academia; and only one of those matters; so you might as well focus on the world

More (though fewer fatal ones, presumably because they rarely go on highways) https://acrs.org.au/files/arsrpe/RS050099.pdf

Adjusting for hours spent driving, do taxi drivers have more or fewer accidents than other drivers?

Has the number of bits of information you need about the shape of a car to distinguish its make and model increased over time? As in, have cars become more similar?

Huh. Lyft’s market cap is 1/25th of Uber’s. Hadn’t been following and this is surprising.

Earthquake!

Watched My Cousin Vinny on the flight over. It’s good!

I ask Uber/Lyft, Delta/United apps to track my activity on other apps. Treat ‘em mean…

I find myself repeating @yashkaf.bsky.social ‘s advice to singles (useful for non-singles too): try finding reasons to like other people rather than finding reasons not to like them.

A challenge in Data Science: data scientists who know how to avoid all the traps of bad analysis suck at building scalable tools. And visa versa. Prediction: AI assistants seem to be better suited to helping researchers do software engineering than helping software engineers become researchers

What’s worth watching?