Effectively it’s my penultimate weekend in Boston earlier than leaving for Europe for many of the summer time. I’ve been questioning if the rationale I cherished the winter and the snow and the freezing chilly all winter was as a result of a) it was deeply romantic, b) it was stunning and crammed me with pleasure, c) I actually favored sporting sweaters, boots, thermals and this massive coat, and/or d) as long as it was snowing, then I wasn’t leaving any time quickly.
It’s at all times exhausting to discern the center because it’s like holding a puddle of water within the palm of your hand. Generally it looks as if one factor, however then one other time it looks as if one thing else. So who is aware of. Who is aware of why I do something. However I’m damaged hearted that’s for positive, as I fell in love with Boston, its folks, its groups. And although I’ll come again after Europe, I’m nonetheless not going to be right here for 2 months.
However that’s not now but. Now’s a browser of 84 open tabs, plus one other browser with much more. So I’ll undergo, shut those I want to shut, submit the remaining.
Thanks everybody e on your assist. I admire how supportive everyone seems to be in direction of me and has been for a very long time. The books transferring alongside, and this summer time I’ll work on the free on-line website. I selected the inexperienced coloration for the duvet.
Tonight is recreation 7 of the Celtics – Phillies. I’m going with my buddy, Tim, my finest from faculty, former roommate, and every others groomsmen. Want us luck as we put on inexperienced and root for the Celtics. On the digicam, I’ll be the bald man sporting a inexperienced Celtics jacket. Received’t be exhausting to overlook!
I don’t use codex and ChatGPT sufficient to personally find out about goblins, however apparently OpenAI inadvertently created them by means of reinforcement studying phases of coaching.
That is now a month outdated, however Ben Casselman early April had a NYT piece noting that economists had been fearful that AI would disrupt labor markets and felt policymakers weren’t ready.
That is over a month outdated now too, however Isaiah Andrews had a brief pithy observe he distributed to MIT college students with his ideas on AI in the event you haven’t see it.
US beginning charges hit historic low.
I’ll be instructing this summer time at this convention on causal inference in Pisa, Italy, so in the event you’re round, you need to come.
In the event you haven’t taken a gander at my shiny app explaining the TWFE decomposition of a steady therapy diff-in-diff into weighted averages, test it out!
The rumor going round that the median e book sells a dozen copies is just not true.
Does turning into a father rewire the mind?
Extra about OLS and its variance weighting drawback by Hazlett and Shinkre. I’ve a bunch of OLS weighting papers I intend to learn after the semester together with this one.
Talking of weighting and OLS, right here’s a shiny app that’s a piece in progress on Angrist’s 1998 paper displaying OLS regression of an final result onto a binary therapy plus a discrete covariate returns a variance-weighted common of within-stratum therapy results.
Al Roth’s new e book is obtainable for preorder on Amazon. I’ll have to attend till I get again in any other case it’ll simply be sitting downstairs on the steps whereas I’m gone.
Claude Code and I made a textual content recreation primarily based on Kings Quest 3 and a unique recreation. You’ll must get a Claude secret key to play it, but it surely appears enjoyable up to now.
Extremely, the conflict in Iran has triggered condom producers to lift costs 30%. In all probability shifting demand additionally, so not a possible instrument, however nonetheless.
“Imperfect Artificial Controls” by David Powell — previously at Rand, now at Penn medical faculty — is now formally revealed. I mentioned that paper I wager again in 2018 no less than. And now it’s 2026.
Take a look at these cool MacBook circumstances. Very fairly.
The proper margarita recipe. For my get together, my recipe was fairly spectacular: 2 components tequila to 1 half triple sec and lots of limes. It was not excellent.
A panel on the perils of searching for empathy from a chatbot. (After all, some attempt to search empathy from people to not avail too. What’s the counterfactual?)
Right here’s an article about Joker and the Nuggets.
Texas inmate was executed this week. He confessed to grisly murders on tv whereas excessive, however then legal professionals additionally used as proof rap lyrics he’d written. Regardless of appeals, the execution went by means of.
The rising disaster in peer overview from AI.
John Drake at Forbes wrote about this too.
Anthropic says 6% of individuals use Claude for private steering. Right here’s the breakdown.
Jesse Rothstein went to the Minneapolis Fed. He’s been operating the California coverage lab for round a decade and shared about it.
A justice and AI database to trace what prison justice businesses and areas are doing what utilizing AI.
This was my speak at Georgetown McCourt coverage faculty as their keynote to their school retreat. It is a image of me and Jim Wallis of Sojourners, who now has a chair within the coverage faculty.
I discovered concerning the late Alice Rivlin whereas there. She earned her PhD in Econ at Harvard within the late Seventies and went onto an unbelievable profession inside authorities.
Every week or two in the past, Greg Caetano and Carolina Caetano helped host a convention at Georgia on bunching on the therapy methodology. Right here’s the YouTube.
A full calendar of the humanities festivals at Harvard.
A podcast episode about how canines love us and we love them.
Flea has been doing a little interviews about his life. Right here’s considered one of them.
Some proof that graduate faculty causes psychological well being to say no.
I’ve been doing it incorrect. The important thing success is one factor at a time, not many issues.
Ten indicators you might be asleep disadvantaged.
Rob and Michele Reiner’s son, Jake, shared on his substack that this has been like for him, together with his brother being on the center.
One of many astronauts on Artemis II broke down in tears having a considerably mystical expertise.
Being seen is the inspiration of affection in a relationship.
Think about getting this factor to assist your rest room paper turn into its finest self.
File this beneath “appears apparent consequence of AI however I didn’t understand it might occur till I noticed this text”. On-line levels. College students are burning by means of them. This’ll put to a take a look at the concept that expertise, not alerts, are the supply of worth in training.
The evolution of the light-weight sneaker and the hunt for pace.
A third of People don’t get sufficient sleep. I truthfully don’t suppose I’ve slept in three weeks. If I’m fortunate, I’ll make it to 2am. I don’t know the trigger.
Demographic tendencies in house possession.
This paper “The AI Layoff Lure” by Brett Falk and Gerry Tsoukalas seems to be fascinating. It sounds slightly like Ricardo’s idea as to how machines cut back output. Right here it’s if the displacement of works occurs sooner than the reallocation of employees to new jobs, then shopper demand for merchandise falls. It seems like a recession to me however perhaps there’s extra critical longrun penalties.
Anthropic cofounder talks about what to main in in faculty.
And with that I bid you all adieu! Let’s want one another luck. I’ll go first. Could we’ve good luck these final weeks of courses!
