It’s first week of lessons at Harvard so I’m behind on a brand new video about Claude Code. However tomorrow I’m assembly with somebody about doing a season lengthy sequence about it and folding it into the podcast. So keep tuned. Thanks once more for all of your assist! Listed below are a bunch of tabs burning a gap in my pocket within the meantime.
As a child, I watched E! leisure loads as a result of they’d a present dedicated to exhibiting nothing however trailers. Perhaps one among my greatest complaints within the streaming period is the lack of the felt expertise of watching trailers within the darkness of the theater. I very a lot resonate with issues others like Ebert has mentioned earlier than which is that the movie show has a type of sanctuary high quality for a lot of — the dimming of the lights, the lifting of the curtain, the peeks into tales. Even to this present day, it strikes me. So once I see nice trailers, it nonetheless actually will get to me. The artwork of the trailer is so good now that there isn’t actually loads of sign although in them. And this Loss of life of Robin Hood might be going to be trash however man I hope not, as this trailer seems to be wonderful.
How Rhode Island got here to legalize indoor intercourse work by Lynn Arditi, a 2009 article within the Windfall Journal that got here throughout my pc and led to me and Manisha Shah writing a paper about it. I had been learning intercourse work since 2007, and had by no means heard that intercourse work outdoors of the agricultural counties of Nevada was authorized anyplace within the US, not to mention RI, not to mention that they appeared to have by accident legalized it in 1980 and that it went unenforced till 2003. What a enjoyable expertise that was doing that work with Manisha.
Texas and Florida see massive will increase in inhabitants on account of inter-state migration.
Inhabitants development, although, total seems to be slowing.
Somebody instructed me about this and prompt I have a look at it. It seems to be a bunch of /expertise for Claude Code that social scientists would possibly wish to see.
Right here’s 8 minutes of Patti Harrison being unhinged.
I might like to see the chat exports of individuals with “chatbot psychosis” and possibly some matched pattern on quite a lot of issues to attempt to study extra in regards to the speech and conversations as they escalated. I believe what bothers me about this ethical hysteria is that it’s actually ignoring the self choice solely.
As an illustration, JNO has a brand new paper printed of a questionnaire of customers and finds frequent AI utilization is linked to increased charges of despair. It will be good if folks may take these research on the identical face worth as they do any examine that lacks an experimental design or consultant surveying strategies. It appears apparent to me that there’s large sorting into utilizing chatbots for self-care as a result of they’re experiencing misery, and but common dialogue round this simply ignores that solely and attracts causality conclusions primarily based on correlations and small comfort samples. Hopefully we are able to see extra about this, as analysis designs are badly wanted on this.
Right here is one other article in regards to the dangers of self-care and generative AI in addition to a dialogue of psychiatry.
A particular subject in Econometrics Journal about Philip Wright, DAGs and instrumental variables by Abbring, Chernozhukov, and Fernandez-Val.
Ought to universities be allowed to pressure older tenured school to retire? Nature opines on the matter, however fails to say statutes just like the Age Discrimination in Employment Act which makes it typically unlawful to pressure anybody to be fired due to their age (that’s except it was mentioned under the paywall).
Hold coming throughout this new paper by Athey, Imbens, Qu and Viviano, “triple strong panel estimators”.
Research finds that the impact of Medicaid growth underneath the ACA on monetary wellbeing (JPubE) diminished unpaid balances in collections by round $1,140.
Claude Code went off and did his personal .bib with out being requested to and hallucinated a few of the papers. I left a remark there, however I questioned if possibly a a lot safer strategy to make your personal .bib utilizing CC is: 1) require CC to net crawl and pull the papers and put into the native folder first, then 2) solely write up the papers which are within the listing. In different phrases, don’t let it ponder by itself tokens. Fairly, make it work together with the bodily setting solely. Most likely somebody must do an RCT on that, although. And likewise keep in mind — the human verification half is important.
A brand new AI agent that manages your private inbox, and so forth. I guess we begin seeing tons of those, and actually already are.
Josh Gans presents a brand new mannequin of “jagged AI”, which I believe is when the AI is nice and unhealthy at issues on the identical time, typically unexpectedly too.
New courting app that doesn’t have pictures, solely phrases. Doesn’t sound like a winnable technique to me since it seems that demand focuses on the very first {photograph} so typically.
Bon Iver reside, “Skinny Love”.
Lovely two story, 2 bed room, 2.5 toilet condominium on Comm Ave going for a cool $2.4 million.
Eight phrases that {couples} who’re shut to one another use when speaking about one another. Not going to checklist them, however you possibly can click on by means of.
Fairly attention-grabbing wanting new dataset. Put this hyperlink into Claude Code and pull it down and see what you bought. It’s a dataset containing roughly 22 million copyright registration information and 15 million different information from January 1, 1978, to June 27, 2025. Click on right here and right here.
I must get round to studying this Anthropic description of Claude’s character one among as of late since Claude Code surprisingly has triggered me to almost solely use Claude, even for chatbot stuff.
However Zvi does a breakdown of the Claude Structure Moral Framework for us already. Somebody wants to review Zvi. I don’t perceive how he is ready to generate this a lot constantly wonderful content material.
Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, may need instructed Zuckerberg he made a mistake permitting LaCun to depart Meta. Would like to know extra about that drama.
OpenAI loses its VP of safety.
I wish to see this new documentary about Courtney Love. Amongst different issues, it talks about her lengthy journey as a musician, her late love, Kurt Cobain, and the infinite gossip about her that adopted his suicide. I nonetheless keep in mind in highschool, my senior yr, simply earlier than commencement, listening to the information he’d dedicated suicide. Me and my mates had been simply surprised.
Sobering case of a tenured professor who was fired due to “mishandling of information” that he and others used to put in writing about racial gaps in IQ. It apparently isn’t in regards to the examine a lot as the best way by which the professor accessed the info itself, which was delicate knowledge about kids. He used restricted knowledge from the NIH. These knowledge got here with a really knowledge use certificates and strict limits saying that researchers should use the info just for what they mentioned they’d of their utility and should defend individuals’ privateness and consent. Most likely price studying by anybody who’s ever tempted to put in writing that second paper utilizing knowledge which was not lined by the preliminary knowledge use settlement.
Subway performer does beautiful rendition of Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide”. I do know these are set ups, however man the acoustics there have been excellent and she or he completely nailed it. I don’t really feel like I’m getting sufficient Fleetwood Mac in my life tbh.
Kanye West took out a full web page commercial within the Wall Avenue Journal publicly acknowledging {that a} 4 month manic episode, throughout which he was overtly each refusing remedy and remedy, in addition to went on a life altering social media racist diatribe that simply appeared to by no means finish. He apologizes and sounds extra lucid in an interview with Self-importance Honest than he has earlier than. I don’t imply remorseful, although he does sound remorseful. I imply lucid and in possession of extra perception about his habits and what occurred. He notes what had already been lengthy mentioned which is that he has recognized bipolar-1 — which by the way he acknowledged on the quilt artwork of his album, Ye, seen right here.
Talking from private expertise, I’ve seen this stuff occur in different contexts, the place folks going by means of psychological well being crises actually blow up their complete life as a result of they interact with folks on social media throughout it. I don’t know if that’s actually mentioned practically sufficient, however the dopamine hits from “likes” and “retweets” on social media are already a factor and the interplay with no matter is occurring with somebody within the throes of a real manic and psychotic episode will go away them with nothing when it concludes, and it’s actually fairly tragic to witness, particularly when you care about that particular person and easily can not get them to pay attention and cease. It’s each what they’re doing to others when they’re like that, and it’s witnessing them evaporate all of their social capital, each due to what they’re doing, and what the consumer interface designs of social media are amplifying and inspiring them to do. I actually want social media had by no means been invented.
Identification and Inference with artificial controls and confounding by Imbens and Viviano.
A command line “cheat sheet” for folks desirous to dip their toes into AI brokers.
A new NBER paper means that, regardless of the most typical criticism you hear in lots of city economics circles, provide constraints is not the motive force of rising housing costs. It’s additionally in step with rising incomes, and thus demand shocks, which is one thing I’ve type of low key all the time believed too. However I’m not within the debate sufficient to emphasize something. It appears exhausting to essentially tease them out.
A recipe to making bacon with out all of the grease splash. However did you actually even make bacon in case your complete stovetop isn’t brown and splattered with grease after you’re accomplished? Will anybody knew we had been right here?
Fascinating use of language fashions in economics analysis at NBER to review technological change and labor demand. Right here’s a paragraph:
They first use massive language fashions to generate complete job descriptions for every US Census occupation in every decade after which measure publicity by calculating the semantic similarity between patent summaries and these job descriptions. Motivated by a easy mannequin by which staff optimally select how you can allocate their time throughout duties, whereas expertise can substitute for sure duties, the researchers measure each the typical expertise publicity throughout an occupation’s duties in addition to the diploma to which this publicity is concentrated in a number of duties.
One thing I believe researchers might be inspired by about Claude Code is how straightforward they are going to discover it to work instantly with OpenAI utilizing batch requests for his or her LLMs to do this sort of classification work — ease, value and pace in truth. I’ve lately used it to do classification duties on 100,000 narratives, as an illustration, utilizing Claude Code. Not solely was it simple, nevertheless it value me round $1.50 and I acquired outcomes again in inside an hour. I ought to most likely do a video exhibiting it — that will most likely be an ideal instance of one thing folks want to see. Okay I’ll do this quickly.
Nice wanting NBER subject specializing in measurement, which is one thing I’m overlaying in additional element in my undergrad class on quantitative strategies at Harvard. This subject is targeted on measurement related to race, ethnicity and economics statistics. Editors embody Randall Akee, Larry Katz, and Mark Loewenstein.
I’ve been utilizing Claude Code to assist me spin up web sites for my two lessons at Harvard which are actually positioned on my homepage as a tab. It’s unreal to think about that three years in the past, I noticed a video of researchers at OpenAI doing this and considering I used to be sooner or later. And now I take it without any consideration as like “meh, no biggie”, when the truth is it has so quickly turn out to be part of my life that I nearly can’t do not forget that I wasn’t doing this till only recently. Anyway, right here is my PhD chance class and right here is my undergrad knowledge science class I’m educating this semester. Want me luck. I’m nonetheless understanding the kinks on each.
I watch this Machine Gun Kelly tune a number of instances per week ever since Bob Dylan shocked everybody by praising it principally randomly on one among his social media accounts. The factor I discover as I watch it an increasing number of is how nice the band is at protecting the beat and the way good that’s. However greater than that, simply watch these younger youngsters loving mgk. You’ll be able to simply inform the connection they really feel to him and the tune.
I’ve all the time been an enormous Eminem fan. After I was on the job market in 2007, earlier than each presentation, I might go into the toilet or a hallway and take heed to Legal on my iPod, and principally rap your entire factor to get into the zone earlier than going on the market.
So I simply assumed for the longest time that when he and mgk wrote these diss songs in opposition to each other that it needed to be that Eminem “received” and mgk “misplaced”, however then final yr on my two week highway tenting journey with my son from Waco to Lake Tahoe and again, I lastly listened to each. I completely didn’t come to that conclusion. There have been some biting traces in mgk’s tune, not the least being when he known as him a bully, noting his wealth going after a younger man like that, but in addition questioned Eminem’s success noting that lots of people may explode if Dre helped them when mgk has most likely accomplished it with out a lot assist from well-known, related producers, simply his personal hustle. However, I do know that is simply how this stuff go along with hip hop.
Most likely Dylan’s reward triggered me to take heed to Machine Gun Kelly extra intently and so I find yourself on these by no means ending rabbit trails of his music. Like this one with Mod Solar.
I nonetheless can not imagine the Patriots received on Sunday and are going to the Tremendous Bowl. I instantly purchased a desk for a number of of us at Banner’s Kitchen and Faucet by the Backyard to observe it on their large display screen behind the bar. Me and another person watched them win there a number of weeks in the past and it was such an incredible expertise that I knew after they beat the Broncos on Sunday that it might promote out, and it did. I acquired a 5 prime although earlier than it did, and it’s going to be wonderful. Seeing the Patriots enjoying like this in a bar in Boston with all that fanatic vitality of followers — it’s not like something I’ve skilled earlier than to be trustworthy as a result of all my groups simply by no means draw that kind of fandom, or they simply can not get a landing to avoid wasting their lives. Go Pats!
My coronary heart’s damaged over the tragedy of Alex Pretti’s brutal demise by the hands of ICE officers. Watching the video, seeing his life ends inside 30 seconds of trying to intervene between ICE officers and a lady who was tousled, is solely an terrible scene of occasions. I received’t present the video, and actually, I’m undecided I might advocate watching it both. I simply can’t think about what his family and friends are feeling if the so many within the nation is feeling what they’re feeling they usually didn’t even know him. Could his reminiscence be a blessing.
However not surprisingly, animosity in direction of ICE has grown in latest weeks a lot that it has spilled over to on-line communities which are ordinarily reclusively apolitical. Which is probably going a mirrored image of shifts on the intensive margin politically, not simply the intensive ones. I hope security and restraint and justice proceeds.
