I landed in Waco final evening with my ladies after spending every week or so with them in Boston. I’m right here to spend Xmas with the household and maybe go drive my automotive round city and fall in love with it once more. I assumed I’d empty these tabs out within the meantime.
A new paper by Solar, Ben-Michael and Feller appears at a number of outcomes with artificial management via once more the lens of the issue mannequin. When can we leverage the opposite final result to enhance estimation? Can we of ought to we? And the way ought to we and why ought to we?
These superior classic 1977 Nikes aren’t accessible in my dimension, or nearly anybody’s dimension. However possibly they’re yours?
What if our ancestors didn’t really feel the identical means we do? I obtained a web page into this and didn’t like. It appears unanswerable.
Each Christmas, tom cruise famously offers a ton of individuals a coconut cake from this bakery.
Jeremy Yang at HSB and coauthors have a research on the early adoption of AI brokers targeted on perplexity. Claude code fyi is an AI agent.
Google information retains telling me the brand new avengers film due subsequent Christmas has had its trailers leaked. I put the likelihood of it being something aside from a strategic purposeful leak by Disney at roughly 0. Nothing will get out the Kevin Feige didn’t purposefully put on the market. Anyway, it is perhaps about youngsters.
Boston named world’s greatest meals vacation spot for 2026. Carry it. Web is shocked although. However I can’t hear them as a result of I’m too busy blocking out all of the haters.
The ladies and I obtained to Waco at midnight central time, 1am jap time so I used to be useless. And I foolishly wore a sweater and it’s 70 levels. Anyway, level is, we drove round for a bit and so they stunned me by enjoying an previous playlist I made them a very long time in the past referred to as “introduction to dad” which they mentioned they take heed to continuously nonetheless. It was an introduction to my life spanned over a lifetime of music that match elements of my life. I first made it on Apple Music however migrated it to Spotify after I switched is all there however then I misplaced it amidst the billion playlists I’ve now. Good to have it again for now.
I’m primarily listening although to my First Winter in Boston playlist nowadays.
However in truth, I’m primarily listening to the sufjan Stevens Christmas album on repeat as I’m attempting to floor myself extra and this album does that for me.
What’s happiness, what isn’t it, what appears to trigger it and what doesn’t? I learn these sorts of articles commonly. And one of many issues that stood out comes up quite a bit for me which is that perception issues nearly nothing at ones happiness. However actions do.
Extra about being glad. I in all probability do three of those nicely, two of those not so nicely.
I’ve at all times liked the tales of feral youngsters. However recently for the primary time I’ve questioned if they may probably be true. A brand new guide concerning the wild boy of Aveyron may very well be a great way to scratch all these itches. His identify was Victor of Aveyron and he was present in France in 1800 (with sightings going again to 1794-1797). He was one of many first documented feral youngsters, I believe round 12yo and studied carefully by this one doctor for round 5 years. Some have questioned if he possibly wasn’t feral, however probably had autism, and had been deserted. He had some type of extreme scar from a wound round his neck suggesting probably somebody tried to kill him. However the factor that’s bizarre to me is the earlier sightings. The winters would’ve been chilly, and he was bare, so how is he making it? Do you know there’s no documented proof of animals feeding folks the way in which that the feral youngsters tales usually are instructed? However he can’t have survived for years bare in these winters so how did he?
My buddy at Baylor, Sam Henderson, has had one among his brief movies shortlisted to Oscar consideration!
Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence discuss to one another. Attention-grabbing how disinterested DiCaprio is in speaking about himself — discover how he deflects when lawrence asks again to her — and doesn’t watch his films. This years film by paul Thomas Anderson is sure to brush the Oscars. DiCaprio was hilarious in it.
Alec Baldwin talks about what the manslaughter trials had been like for him, noting he grew to become suicidal after the New Mexico prosecutors reopened it and charged him a second time. It was thrown out however it took a deep deep toll on him, it feels like. And it feels like he’ll by no means be the identical individual once more. A lot like to him.
The Reiner story continues to be the primary story I’m following within the information I’ve seen, although. The household and shut friendship group is grieving past what any hyperbole can seize. You’ve in all probability seen the tales that the son had schizophrenia and was altering medicines. There’s a whole lot of tales if uou pay attention shut although, and so they typically contradict the opposite tales. Some say there was a battle at Conan O’Browns get together the evening earlier than, one other individual mentioned there wasn’t. Hollywood media is purposeful leaks and nameless sources so it’s nearly inconceivable to know what’s true. However it’s true that the schizophrenia story is a standard one.
With their murdered, and their son because the alleged assassin, and medicines and psychological sickness being the story, count on now a by no means ending string of tales like this one about prisons and psychological sickness. That’s my analysis agenda since 2018. Mixtape success slowed it down however we’ve got one JHR on it up to now, and hopefully extra coming. However my level is I’ve conflicted feelings about the kind of tales that get written up about corrections and psychological sickness as a result of they at all times fireplace photographs at corrections. Or they fireplace photographs on the American healthcare system. I believe the one factor nobody actually needs to acknowledge is simply how nobody is aware of what to do, and the realities of extreme psychological sickness — arguably on a per case foundation the most expensive sickness of something by way of social and private sources consumed — are unbelievably expensive. I’ve my very own restricted perspective on this however it’s one, and it isn’t one primarily that originates from tutorial analysis. Not even shut. The tutorial analysis is endogenous to the opposite issues I’ve seen, and all I’ll say is that I believe all events are working in absolute good religion, and but most households are in means over their heads. And each concept that somebody suggests to a member of the family, be it non-public actions or in any other case, has nearly at all times been tried and failed or the proposal is naive coming from a nicely meant one who merely has a misunderstanding of what’s potential primarily based in all probability on exhibits and flicks which might be factually incorrect.
Marshall undertaking research felony justice and psychological well being.
Anyway, this story has despatched me on all types of emotional twists.
{Couples} who spend time aside through the holidays could also be more healthy for it. After all, I might like to see the RCT that did this and located it. Are you able to think about the ratio of stuff to we are saying might be true to the variety of research that anybody of their proper thoughts would ever put actual cash in direction of? Possibly that is why quasi-experimental analysis is beneficial — nobody would fund a big scale randomized managed trial to find out the causal impact of 1’s accomplice going to the flicks alone on the happiness of the couple. However possibly there’s an instrument for that.
Gottman and the 4 horsemen and his prediction mannequin — I believe there isn’t any different psychology discovering within the historical past of mass media that has had an extended life than this one. You possibly can on any random day discover a story someplace of somebody writing about this discovering. Don’t get me mistaken — not criticizing it. I’m simply saying I see this factor like 1,000,000 messages in 1,000,000 bottles washing up alongside each shore day-after-day it appears like.
The artwork and science of being glad and selecting what to care about.
Psychologists say three traits will kill you, one being nervousness.
Extra about aphanasia and the way folks with it might’t visualize pictures of their minds. I suppose it will depend on why and for what functions people advanced with that potential within the first place, however assuming it’s fairly essential, which it looks as if it might be, I guess folks with aphanasia compensate in different methods, like maybe with speaking or writing.
A brand new NBER working paper of what’s going to quickly be a JEL by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Peter Hull and Michael Kolesar on leniency design “an operators guide”. Certain to be insightful, but additionally virtually helpful. Peter mentioned that Kolesar’s previous 2013 unpublished dissertation proving and presenting the unbiased JIVE will now lastly have a house right here.
This piece is actually about one central concept: the significance of staying current for endings relatively than fleeing from them—whether or not that’s the tip of a remedy, a relationship, a column, or a life.
Rick Rubin on AC/DC’s Freeway to Hell.
The lengthy operating Harvard happiness research continues to search out that relationships, not cash, trigger happiness. And if you wish to be glad in your 70s, right here’s 10 habits it’s best to keep away from or drop.
And that’s it. Comfortable holidays! It’s 70 levels in Waco, however I nonetheless choose the chilly in again bay.
