When Harvard University launched their engineering school in ~2007, they talked ad nauseam about how they would have merged with MIT 100 year prior if not for a few 'technicalities'

They forgot to mention the real issue was MIT ppl hated Harvard and its culture. A brief 🧵 1/6

If LLMs can simulate human survey responses fairly well, will this enable a new type of data fabrication/academic fraud? A question I wish I would have posed in this new article: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

bad new fidgeting habit: tearing up index cards & weaving them together

Ever wonder why ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐︎ seems to mean 'barely OK' these days? Inflation!

No, seriously — average public ratings on platforms tend to increase over time. And if you compare to private ratings or ratings inferred from open text fields, they diverge from each other.

Thread on reading in & extracting info from PDFs & then analyzing 🧵

John Horton 'Helping people is immoral because the world is zero-sum' is one of the most destructive possible thought patterns, and economists have a moral obligation to fight against it wherever we see it

Genius executive at 7-11: “here me out - we do a promotion violating Inada conditions to get free viral marketing on econ twitter. Economists are rich (shills for capital)”

“p = MC, as consumers have free disposal, with u’(x) everywhere positive, and…

Forgive the casual empiricism here, but there *might* be some headroom to increase matches

Academics with at least 5 years of experience in a tenure/tenure track position. Has your dept. ever done a faculty search where ultimately no one was hired that year?