Right this moment I’m double checking my packing, making ready to go away for 8 weeks in Europe. Each time I journey, I neglect one essential factor. So I’m excited to see after I get there what that one factor is. Within the meantime, let me clear out these browser tabs. Thanks once more everybody for all of your help!
Lakers are indignant about how the refs are officiating. Thunder is up 2.
Couple of fascinating papers I noticed introduced this week at an NBER workshop on AI and healthcare. This one is about AI serving to clear FDA medical units coverage hurdles.
However I actually discovered Carolyn Stein’s examine about Alphafold (with Ryan Hill) fascinating.
I heard this GPT on LinkedIn would possibly show you how to decide a journal on your paper. Or relatively, possibly get a way of what an editor would assume.
This weeks ransomware assault on Canvas obtained me occupied with that Pitt season two episode the place the hospital obtained hit with a cyberattack. This new AEJ paper Sayeh Nikpay, Hannah Neprash, and Claire McGlave regarded on the query empirically and located ransomware/cyber assaults on hospital have main disruptive results and even trigger mortality to rise by round 35%.
The Anthropic Institute pronounces its 4 analysis agendas: financial diffusion (eg who makes use of AI), threats and resilience (eg like cyber assaults), AI pushed R&D, and AI methods within the wild.
The Financial Science Society is a brand new affiliation selling rigorous causal inference, methodological range and amongst different issues prioritizes using AI in science.
Lydia Ashton’s web site. Her new paper on “vibe econometrics” may be very related to a paper I’m revising.
lat.md is a software that lets programmers write plain-English notes about what their code does and the way it’s organized, stored in a format that AI coding assistants can learn and comply with. The thought is that the AI does higher work when it has a human-written “map” of the venture to discuss with, as a substitute of getting to determine all the pieces out from scratch every time.
ClaudeHUD is a small Mac app that places Claude in your menu bar so you possibly can chat with it in a floating panel with out switching home windows, with extras like a number of tabs, session historical past, and Obsidian notes. It’s a wrapper across the Claude command-line software, constructed by economist Ben Daniels for individuals who need Claude at all times one click on away whereas they work.
The papers finding out the habits of AI brokers are exhibiting up. You in all probability noticed this paper by Serafin Grundl. Serafin had AI brokers (Codex and Claude Code) and 146 human analysis groups (ie many analyst design and plenty of agent design) independently estimate the identical DACA causal impact, and located the AI submissions and people produced related central estimates whereas AI reviewers constantly ranked the AI work above the human work.
Justin Wolfers has a brand new media enterprise. New York Occasions has a story on it. Good luck Justin in the event you’re studying this!
AI brokers can join a cloudflare account, pay for it, register it, and reply a working web site — with out the human ever copying API keys, getting into a bank card, going to a dashboard, nothing. All dealt with by Stripe.
Alan Moore continues his a long time lengthy complaining in regards to the comics business. Yawn. I might make an Alan Moore chatbot in an hour; all it could do is say the way it hates tremendous hero comics and that it regrets writing Watchmen.
Does faith make distinction in hooking up in school? Perhaps.
5 Harvard college, together with Dan Carpenter (chair of presidency dept) named Harvard school professors. Dan is superb.
I probably gained’t be watching this documentary footage.
AI Brokers for monetary companies. An Anthropic joint.
A brand new Bear episode, prequel, on Hulu. Trying ahead to checking it out.
Right here’s a summer time playlist Spotify made me. I’m digging their adoption of AI tbh. I feel that wager will repay.
Character.ai will get sued for impersonating a health care provider.
New paper in Nature finds the mind adjustments with one dose of psilocybin.
If you wish to cease cognitive decline, take into account not retiring. Excellent news for me; I intend to be a kind of economists who dies at his desk. In all probability procrastinating on grading and a referee report, which is able to in all probability will probably be on the tombstone.
Three inverse legal guidelines of AI. Not endorsing this, however I’ve been occupied with it. I do really feel that anybody who makes an inventory like this needs to be required to rank their favourite Star Wars episodes, the place they had been once they first watched Terminator 2, and which comics they collected as a child. As a result of actually, I discover some individuals talking boldly and authoritatively about human-AI relationships to sound like individuals who had very completely different upbringings than me. I grew up with C-3PO and R2D2 serving to Luke, and younger John Connor turning into pals with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Generally I get the distinct sense others have elected themselves to talk for everybody however that mentioned, I learn it and it was provocative and doubtless I’m simply being defensive.
Texas Month-to-month’s editor Aaron Parsley gained the Pulitzer Prize for his writing about his household surviving the harrowing floods. Clear eyes, full hearts.
Boston College enters the podcast sport with “Conversations with Economists”.
Nice essay, and a subject I’ve been speaking to universities about too. The largest bottleneck in social science isn’t producing analysis however verifying its high quality, which is an issue AI makes worse, since pretend or sloppy work is now low cost to generate however costly to verify. Atz walks by means of three doable fixes (AI reviewers, extra open-science disclosure, social/skilled reforms), finds every inadequate by itself, and tentatively bets on a clear AI reviewer that produces a public report of what was checked relatively than pretending to certify fact.
The provide aspect of AI. However within the longrun, provide is elastic, so I count on this retains flattening.
Liked this text about how a lot Jane Fonda admired her recurring costar Robert Redford. Appears like some main crush vitality bordering on unrequited love.
We might have gotten sadder through the pandemic, and possibly it hasn’t bounced again, and possibly gained’t.
Are AI methods going to start out constructing themselves? I assumed they already had. Claude wrote 90% of Claude Code.
Cue an article about AI writing absolutely automated analysis papers.
Wild to assume psychedelic reform of all issues could also be bipartisan. I wager the psychological well being advantages was the important thing, significantly using psychedelics to assist vets with power PTSD. That alone creates quite a bit empathy for a remedy, even one thing seemingly as taboo as magic mushrooms.
Open name for a convention for AI in science for these .
The actress Jessica Chastain mentioned one in all her favourite lessons within the Kennedy College was a quantitative strategies class. I’ll wager $50 that was Dan Levy’s class. I truly obtained a e-book about Dan, written by a pupil no much less, this week within the mail. It’s entitled “Invisible Studying: The Magic Behind Dan Levy’s Legendary Harvard Statistics Course”.
Are you wanting a primer to Claude Code and Claude Cowork? One thing that will help you get began? Give this URL to Claude (or simply learn it). That is by Chris Cornwell, an econometrician at Georgia and my former advisor and present coauthor.
Tyler Applied sciences possesses a variety of the nation’s courtroom data.
11 instances Spotify made relationships sophisticated and awkward.
I had NotebookLM work up a brief video of a manuscript I’m engaged on about on-line courting. I had forgot that they had constructed this performance. It is a paper I’m engaged on about how on-line courting just isn’t merely a two sided matching platform, however can also be virtually solely (if not solely) a platform for blind dates and the way that has led to the demand for screening mechanisms.
A framework for evaluating reproducibility in financial analysis.
And as soon as once more, a mattress body I simply can’t appear to delete from my browsers.
And that’s all! Solely took an hour too. Now again to packing. Want me luck. This time tomorrow I can’t be in Boston. Boston you have got my coronary heart, and I can’t wait to see you once more in 8 weeks.
