This week got here and went. I obtained to Zurich every week in the past. I did a 3 day workshop on panel econometrics Monday to Wednesday on the College of Zurich. Six hour days, three days every week. It was unusually fatiguing and I feel it’s as a result of I vibe coded all my previous lecture slides into a brand new design to make room for brand new materials, and I assume it simply messed with my recreation a bit of, making me really feel completely exhausted as I didn’t fairly know my strains.
That was really the primary time that occurred. I do know my lecture slides just like the again of my hand, and as such, the extent of depth I can carry to them is fairly excessive. However as a result of I vibe coded the brand new ones, although I used to be simply migrating them over, I used to be deliberately making an attempt to revamp and it simply felt totally different. And that’s as a result of I’m fairly certain once I normally write slides, by the final one, I’ve memorized the speak. However right here it wasn’t like that, and so even small deviations appeared to throw me off.
That is once more simply this factor I’m noting — the psychological sense of human capital, or one thing, whereby I do know one thing properly due to the sustained consideration from intensive time use, simply isn’t there. However weirdly, it wasn’t there even for a subject I’ve taught 10,000 occasions.
I don’t lament these things. Relatively, that is the brand new world, with new issues, and I simply have to unravel these new issues — prior to later.
However that’s neither right here nor there. At this time is that day of the week the place I shut tabs, whereas concurrently sharing some pictures of Zurich. I’ll simply intersperse the submit with photos.
MIT means that chatbots could also be giving out your telephone quantity. I attempted to do it with Claude, however I couldn’t work out a immediate that will make him give me a associates quantity. However little doubt, given the coaching these LLMs are endeavor, a sensible hacker can most likely work out how.
Drake dropped a brand new album referred to as Iceman, however that’s one among three new albums he’s both launched or releasing. I began Iceman, however didn’t get far earlier than dropping by the wayside. I couldn’t get excited by it. However first impressions with albums has all the time been unreliable, so who is aware of — perhaps it’s excellent. Right here’s Selection them.
Women and men fall in love otherwise. Males are likely to get there first, so says some new examine, however girls expertise it extra intensely. They provide an evolutionary clarification for it however I by no means obtained that far.
How republicans got here to help psychedelic remedy. The TLDR, I feel, is it has to do with treating veterans efficiently for power psychological well being situations like PTSD. Veterans are universally beloved, bipartisan, and the post-9/11 vets have very excessive suicide charges. PTSD as a consequence of their service possible has been a lightning rod for drawing open mindedness to experiment with psychedelics, and my understanding is that therapy occurs now anyway throughout the navy, simply not essentially publicized.
If you and your good friend each have an Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, then you possibly can name on FaceTime, click on SharePlay, After which watch a film or present collectively. But it surely seems like you’ll perhaps then as a hologram be sitting in the identical room with the opposite individual and their voice will sound like they’re proper beside you in some bizarre means that solely Apple can engineer. My good friend has one, so we’re going to strive it. In fact meaning I’ve to go to mattress at 2am to do it, although.
I’ve now watched all the episodes of the brand new Apple present Margo’s Acquired Cash Troubles. Michelle Pfeiffer’s again and he or she’s wonderful in it. Really everyone seems to be. Elle Fanning performs Margo who has a child along with her literature professor, a typical trope, who finally ends up not then being within the image. She goes on OnlyFans. Issues occur. It’s dramatic, humorous, crammed with household depth, has individuals who amaze you — like Nick Offerman from Parks and Rec who performs a former professional wrestler and Fanning’s dad, Nicole Kidman who appears to be in every part today, and the good Michelle Pfeiffer. It has 97% on rotten tomatoes and was simply picked up for a second season. Episodes are half-hour lengthy; you’ll binge the entire thing with out even batting an eye fixed. Right here’s the trailer.
OpenAI is partnering with finance establishments to create a extra strong private finance choice for its product, I feel most likely ChatGPT. I’ve been making an attempt to get that to work with Claude by myself, automating quite a lot of API pulls, however Financial institution of America doesn’t but have a strategy to automate your stuff from them for Claude. However one among today…
Advik Shreekumar, a postdoc at UC Berkeley and former MIT grad from the Econ dept, and Pierre-Luc Vautrey, additionally at MIT, have a new working paper on learning the impact of on-line mindfulness apps on each psychological well being and financial conduct. They applied a big and low attrition RCT and it seems like the consequences had been sizable. Round a half customary deviation enchancment in psychological well being measures as much as a month later persisting for 3 months. However no results on a productiveness measure generally studied suggesting it’s not through talent based mostly administration of unfavourable feelings that these earlier research had been discovering results.
These AI movies of Spencer Pratt operating for mayor are wild.
Charles Curran@charliebcurran
LA is value saving. Vote Spencer Pratt.
12:57 PM · Might 5, 2026 · 5M Views
2.54K Replies · 13K Reposts · 62.5K Likes
The impact of leisure hashish on employment has not been as studied as different issues. However within the AI generated paper I did for one among my Claude code sequence, that’s what Claude discovered. Apparently there was although already a paper on this by Joe Sabia, and coauthors. Right here’s that NBER paper. And right here’s my previous submit. You may see within the thumbnail the occasion examine that Claude constructed from its personal evaluation of particular information it collected.
Luca Fornaro and Martin Wolf write up a paper of theirs for VoxEU on the macroeconomics of AI associated coverage.
Christopher Roebuck wrote up a submit summarizing and interacting with an NBER healthcare and AI panel organized by Kosali Simon.
Bloomberg story about how Bezos successor, Andy Jassey, CEO at Amazon, is doing 5 years into his tenure, and on what new challenges the corporate faces.
A new replace to your iPhone might allow you to put your automobile keys in your pockets (that’s if you happen to personal a automobile that works with Apple to do that).
Talking of Apple, OpenAI is seemingly planning authorized motion towards them for the way they dealt with the ChatGPT integration. I really forgot they even had ChatGPT built-in on this telephone. Apparently that’s a part of the case — they buried it. I feel issues perhaps cooled a bit of when Altman employed Jonny Ive too.
The 2026-2027 Harvard Radcliffe students have been introduced. Come see in case your title is posted.
Is napping an indication of rising well being issues? Harvard analysis says perhaps. Really didn’t learn this and I’m virtually certain I coated this on right here earlier than.
A brand new episode of the podcast, Harvard Considering, sounded fascinating. The subject was in regards to the psychology of remorse, and the excellence between remorse and regret. You may hearken to it on the hyperlink, however it’s also possible to simply learn the transcript. It’s about breaking that sample round remorse. I feel perhaps quite a lot of it comes from forgiving your self, loving and accepting your self.
A provocative new Financial Journal article about journal rankings exhibits the “society journals” have shot to the highest. AEJ Utilized, Micro and Macro — in addition to AER: Insights — are actually occupying spots 6-10. However extremely, Journal of Labor Economics is listed as a high 10, and Journal of Human Sources is like 12 or 14. You may entry the paper now because it’s at the moment open entry however the article is about these society journals, like AEA. I feel JOLE and JHR rising so excessive is for certain fascinating although. The continued pattern in labor economics dominance?
What impact will AI have, and is perhaps already having, on the tutorial paper? Who is aware of however Kevin Smith gives up some ideas. When you purchase, by the way in which, that AI is driving a wedge between the manufacturing of analysis and its verification, then no matter modifications occur, it’s nonetheless possible that verification of analysis and never merely the manufacturing of papers would be the perennial subject. Extra analysis doesn’t itself imply extra publications. For that we’d like modifications on the demand facet.
New paper on AI governance and regulatory frameworks. Or publication, I ought to say, not “paper”.
Pitchfork calls Chris Brown’s new album “soulless”.
A school schooling graduate speaker obtained booed when she mentioned AI was the following “Industrial Revolution”. Boo’ing hardly ever stops the implications of large technological shocks, however it will probably really feel prefer it does I assume?
Acemoglu on three issues to look at for in AI. They’re AI brokers in fact; the hiring of economists on the large companies; and AI apps. The hiring of economists into varied positions is for certain fascinating. Will OpenAI or have Anthropic have their model of the late Pat Bajari, former chief economist who’s considered accountable for Amazon turning into such an enormous employer of Phd economists. However perhaps that’s why Acemoglu mentioned to look at for it.
New paper on how properly AI brokers can fully replicate a paper’s findings with solely a description of the analysis query and the unique information?
A mathematician writes about how spectacular he discovered authentic mathematical work by GPT-5.5.
What’s one of the best streaming machine? Some say it’s by NVIDIA.
Texas led the US in complaints about Unhealthy Bunny’s halftime present on the Tremendous Bowl. Lame.
The labor provide of American clergy could also be collapsing? In fact, one other clarification is it’s in equilibrium and falling religiosity is probably going a significant a part of this. Rising returns to schooling isn’t a small a part of the provision facet story too although given pastors usually haven’t only a school diploma, but in addition three yr divinity masters levels. I believe actual wages and requirements of residing have fallen for pastors during the last 50 years because of rising returns to talent in secular work.
Scott Galloway on the returns to increased schooling.
Billy Bob Thornton had some well being issues associated to his food regimen that took him some time to correctly handle.
The wars among the many Wikipedia editors is all the time a enjoyable story to examine. Some new blood are shaking issues up.
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s manufacturing firm is being sued by Miami-Dade law enforcement officials for the company’s portrayal in “the Rip”. Additionally lame.
Which jobs are “future proofed”?
A postdoc place at Barcelona for these .
“Figuring out variables that predict …” you title it is probably not a principled analysis job, so says Gelman and Carlin.
And that’s it! At this time I modify lodges as a result of Claude Code mistakenly forgot I used to be trying out as we speak however flying out tomorrow. Ive been utilizing Claude code to fully automate each single element of my logistics throughout Europe this summer season and thus far it’s gone properly apart from when he makes me practically homeless caught in a metropolis with out a place to remain. However in any other case impressed! Anyway, subsequent time you hear from me I’ll be in Glasgow. I’ll attempt to get my writing again up and going subsequent week. I’m lastly sleeping by way of the night time so I count on to be a bit higher rested.
