I’m on the Madrid airport at 7am native time heading to Milan the place I’ll then journey to a lake. My aim is to examine in as quickly as potential, unpack, and relaxation and loosen up for the subsequent three days earlier than educating one other workshop, this time for the European Fee. A lot wanted break after three weeks straight of workshopping: Zurich for every week, Glasgow for every week, and CodeChella Madrid for every week. For those who attended CodeChella this final week, preserve your eyes peeled. I’ll be sending an e mail to everybody quickly a few observe as much as the workshop about one thing proposed as an add-on!
4 extra weeks to go earlier than my precise trip — the attractive San Sebastián. It’ll be my third time to go to. The “house of artificial management” as I like to inform family and friends. Amongst different issues, I’m wanting ahead to Amelia’s.
However I’ve miles to go earlier than I’m again in Spain, together with miles of open tabs. A sensible man as soon as stated each journey begins with closing their tabs, so let me do this. Right here’s quite a lot of articles, many economics, AI, and popular culture.
I proceed to eye these fairly, colourful, earrings.
Anthropic is valued at nearly a trillion {dollars}, over 100 billion greater than OpenAI. The home that Claude code constructed.
Right here’s an oldie however a goodie from de la soul.
Give you a protected phrase together with your family members in order that they understand it’s you in the event you name and say you’ve been kidnapped, versus AI impersonating you and getting your mother and father complete life financial savings.
I don’t know… this particular person is performing awfully cagey. I wager they will not be going to Taylor swifts wedding ceremony if invited. Psyche after all they’re going. Yanking the chain of this poor clueless journalist. You ought to be ashamed of your self.
That is the place I’m staying the subsequent week. A modest household run 3-star lodge on Lake Maggiore. My aim is to get in 14k steps a day, minimize out all alcohol, no bread or pasta, eat veggies, fish, and lose ten kilos in 4 weeks. Okay possibly 5-6.
Possibly distant hiring, and never AI, is inflicting the hiring slowdown amongst youthful employees.
“…Utilizing same-group membership as an instrumental variable for friendship, we discover that friendship reduces opinion variations by 44 p.c of the imply opinion hole. Our proof helps a homophily-enforced mechanism: Friendships kind amongst initially politically related college students, main them to hitch political associations collectively, reinforcing their similarity.” New article within the AER.
Talking of “new articles in”, our JEL “Diff-in-Diff: A Practitioner’s Information” (with Baker, Callaway, Goodman-Bacon and Sant’Anna) is lastly revealed. Cue up “what lengthy unusual journey it has been” by the Grateful Lifeless.
One other couple of an fascinating articles in the identical challenge of the JEL are on home violence (by Manisha Shah and Lydia Barski) and feminine bargaining/energy within the family (by Seema Jayachandran and Alessandra Voena).
A panel of social scientists at Stanford talked about utilizing AI brokers for analysis. Nice for anybody on this.
Amazon solves an issue that might change the way forward for information facilities.
Anthropic launched Opus 4.8. Amongst different issues, “Opus 4.8 is round 4 occasions much less doubtless than its predecessor to permit flaws in code it has written to move unremarked.” However the place’s Mythos?
Anthropic carried out a survey of roughly 1,200 social scientists about AI and agent use. Economists are far out forward.
And the use will get decrease as they become older. PhD pupil utilization could be very excessive.
Lake Como vs Lake Maggiore. Which is which? This individuals opinion on which to see.
I’m heading to the latter as we communicate for 3 days of relaxation earlier than a number of extra days on the European Fee in Ispra. The aim is 14,000 steps a day and minimize alcohol, bread and risotto.
The story behind a well-known previous Kate Moss {photograph}.
I’ll have seen this on MR. New paper on AI writing of narratives:
“AI tales over-explain themes and favor tidy, single-track plots whereas human tales body protagonist’ selections as extra morally ambiguous and have elevated temporal complexity. Per-model fingerprint options allow six-way attribution: for instance, Claude produces notably flat occasion escalation, GPT over-indexes on dream sequences, and Gemini defaults to exterior character description. We discover that AI-generated tales cluster in a shared area of narrative house, whereas human-authored tales exhibit better variety.”
Put this in your social welfare perform the subsequent time you calculate the prices of inflation: the affect of rising meals costs on texas bbq.
Ben golub shares this on Twitter, however this software program apparently has file of discovering AI generated speech. This federal choose might have used it of their opinion.
Energy evaluation for experimental designs, together with diff-in-diff.
Early responses to Spielberg’s new science fiction film, Departure Day, make it sound like he’s in previous kind with a blockbuster.
Talking of blockbuster — Off Campus is Amazon primes third most watched present.
A summer season playlist.
Don’t cite sources you haven’t learn and don’t have an opinion about their usefulness.
Sayeh Nikpay, Mikayla Reinke and Nicole Quinoses on the historical past of the 340B drug pricing program is a romp. Extremely advisable for well being economists, financial historians and everybody.
Possibly OpenAI and Anthropic don’t assume AI will trigger a job loss apocalypse.
Texas voters oust Senator John Coryn in upset.
On utilizing LLMs for textual content classification.
Extra information on Gino case. This time involving Ben Edelman.
I’ll be sincere — I’m excited a few moon base; and the Artemis moon could also be large.
Previous article on the impact of Viagra on sexual well being and relationships.
An awesome sequence of Q&A, and particularly the As, with economist Adriana Kugler at Georgetown.
I simply purchased this e book for my daughter who stated she wished to learn Infinite Jest. It’s referred to as Infinite Jeffs and each phrase has been changed with the phrase “Jeff”.
The NYT writes concerning the Nobel laureate Herbert Simon on happiness.
On what it looks like when the one you love has beauty surgical procedure to their face and so they not are somebody you acknowledge.
Extra anecdotes on chatbot psychosis.
A meta evaluation discovered no significant distinction in cognitive efficiency for fasters and non-fasters.
New working paper on talent atrophy and AI productiveness good points.
Is curiosity in economics waning? Possibly.
AI managed portfolios don’t present indicators of irregular returns. NBER working paper.
Instacart economists describe the affect that AI has had on productiveness.
And with that, I’ve shaved off sufficient tabs — a minimum of from my iPhone — that I can bid adieu. Plus I made it to the entrance of the road so I have to get off the cellphone. Thanks once more for all of your assist!
