I’m informed it’s not spring but right here in Boston, however I’ll say twice I wore a sweater to work, as soon as a brief sleeve shirt, and as soon as a shirt and a skinny jacket that was completely advantageous once I went and which was devastatingly too suppose for a far too chilly day. I’m informed that is known as fools spring or one thing. Anyhow, nonetheless my favourite metropolis on this planet.
However as we speak it’s a good day. It’s the beginning of Harvards spring break, which is decidedly not a fake spring break. And I’m utilizing it to do some spring cleansing on my browser. So buckle up.
Texas’s transfer might shut down the hemp loophole created the farm invoice a number of years in the past that legalized THC merchandise. They’ve been chomping on the bit to get delta-9 out of the gasoline stations and smoke retailers, and it could occur.
When is love a romantic fixation? What are the indicators and the implications? The telltale signal is worry. After we worry dropping the individual greater than we take pleasure in being with them. After we are extra hooked up to their potential than their actuality (a pink flag). When you consider them always. Want fixed reassurance. Your temper is fully primarily based on their availability. If you really feel threatened once they set regular boundaries like wanting an evening alone. The deeper diagnostic is the perform that the opposite individual serves. If you find yourself fixated, the individual is the mechanism by which you regulate your nervous system. It’s exhausting to catch due to its profitable mimicry of affection.
The brand new M5 MacBook Professional is getting nice evaluations, but it surely feels like the subsequent one will probably be phenomenal.
Claudia Goldin has received one other award to go along with her many others — the Talcott Parsons Prize for Social Scientists.
Engineering assembly as a consequence of outages at Amazon from AI.
Some small grants for AI at Microsoft.
Name for papers at Chicago for a fall convention on AI and the social sciences.
The Minneapolis Fed’s Alternative and Inclusive Progress has additionally launched a name for papers for its convention.
Talking of the Alternative and Inclusive Progress, Fed economist Andrew Goodman-Bacon will probably be a brand new coeditor on the JHR.
The JHR@J_HumanResource
Welcome to our new co-editor, Andrew Goodman-Bacon! Andrew is an economist on the Alternative and Inclusive Progress Institute on the Federal Reserve Financial institution of Minneapolis and focuses on well being economics, public economics, and utilized econometrics.
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New working paper on Improved inference for Callaway and Sant’Anna utilizing the jackknife. Might want to keep in mind to learn this.
Schmidt Sciences@schmidtsciences
We’re funding bold technical analysis on how generative AI adoption influences the character of labor and the functioning of the labor market: schmidtsciences.smapply.io/prog/ai_at_wor…
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Schmidt Sciences additionally has a name for submissions for grants on AI.
Right here’s my Spotify playlist for the spring.
Estimating gained time from duties carried out by Claude utilizing evaluation of conversations by Anthropic. Estimated to be 80%. Word this was November 2025. I ponder what the 2026 replace will probably be once they analyze Claude Code.
Variations throughout packages, this time utilizing artificial management. I discovered this additionally again once I wrote the mixtape and have a word about it within the guide. The R vs Stata variations are most likely not simply restricted to synth and CS, however see my factor the opposite day anyway about variation throughout packages.
Claude Code
Claude Code 31: Apple-to-Apple Audit of Six Callaway and Sant’Anna packages
That is a part of a long-running collection on Claude Code which started again in mid-December. You’ll find all of them right here. My curiosity is persistently extra on the tip of “utilizing Claude Code for sensible empirical analysis” outlined as the kind of quantitative (largely causality) analysis you see as of late within the social sciences which focuses on datasets sto…
Additionally, Zoë Hitzig, PhD Econ for Harvard, on depart from the Society of Fellows, previously at OpenAI, and revealed poet, is now at Anthropic. Right here is her NYT opinion piece as to her causes for leaving OpenAI over her considerations in regards to the path that OpenAI is taking in direction of an promoting mannequin.
StubHub tickets to approaching Crimson Sox video games.
The psychological well being advantages of self sufficiency might not communicate to everybody, however it’s one thing I’ve been making an attempt to work on.
Generational expertise, Luka Donci, and his fiance have damaged up and he denies relationship somebody who I’ve by no means heard of. Love Luka. Right here’s a video of a steal and toss to Kyrie.
I grew up obsessive about Hollywood and flicks. I imply obsessed is a powerful phrase, but it surely was my interest the way in which sports activities is most males’s interest. I’d stroll from my home to the native Malco theater each Saturday and keep for 2, typically three films. And I adopted Hollywood tabloid and gossip fairly intently. I even in highschool subscribed to a few Hollywood fashion magazines. That’s my manner of prefacing I can nonetheless keep in mind following JFK Jr and Daryl Hannah’s relationship within the information. However I solely vaguely keep in mind it being considerably turbulent.
High 15 greatest DOUBLE rap albums of all time. It is a nice checklist and shocked me. Each as a result of 8ball coming in at 14 (nice decide), and all of the nodding I did for slots 1-4.
What’s it like to like somebody with nervousness. Sigh.
This week’s new Apple merchandise. My pal received the brand new MacBook Air and wow is it beautiful.
Chatbots serving to individuals kill individuals and plan assaults. Sadly, this received’t be the final time too.
On paramount successful in its bid for Warner brothers.
A brand new course on AI in finance.
Did ATMs result in declines in financial institution tellers? No however the iPhone most likely did.
Try Chris Blattmans Herculean effort to construct an government assistant out of Claude Code.
Making good expertise by Anthropic
Discover the road that break up the 2 colours. I received to the twenty second stage. You’ll most likely double that.
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham on LLM.txt — a markdown for making our papers simpler for LLMs to learn. Most likely value enthusiastic about since we’re transferring away from Google search. Additionally this.
Additionally this will get into LLM.txt
Aaron Roth on the altering nature of arithmetic analysis. I picked up Aaron’s new guide with Michael Kearns, The Moral Algorithm, just lately.
Going to a school and visiting day’s feels.
And I’m going to finish it there. Have a fantastic weekend!
