March 2026 to 'change everything': 'Tipping point' for global EV adoption Accelerated collapse of ICE cars seen, as oil crisis drives 'replacement under pressure'

EVs are winning. They're obviously going to win. The US is punching itself in the dick by clinging to ICE vehicles.

So glad to hear it! Very gratifying

Come for my thoughts on AI writing, stay for Dostoevsky caricature as an econometrician:

Writing & Thinking with AI Assistance Video 5 in a series on Claude Code

New post in series with Markus Academy, this time on writing, writing guides, and referee skills

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Lol yes we were definitely the grungiest of the bands there

Assistant to the Professors at Yale Battle of the Bands 2026 YouTube video by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham

Probably will regret posting this but: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ_p...

More conferences like this!!!

This conference on bunching methods om April 17-18th seems really nice, starting with tutorials and then applications:

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I am not sure the organizers want randos to attend but there is a zoom link and I am working on a paper using these tests so I hope they do

This feels like a command and conquer cutscene

Ok I'm bored and want to procrastinate work so let's do a thread instead. Wanna hear a story?

Alright then, story it is. So gather around, children, because now we're going to talk about the most important science book you've probably never heard of.

Ready? Off we go, then.

This is fun!

The idea i could ever do this with a straight face...

I'm sorry but it's going to be one of those posts

Applied asymptotics.

Anyone have good references studying the geometry LLM embeddings?

I also wrote a paper that is too powerful to be released to the public.

a group of men standing next to each other with the words the wooorst ALT: a group of men standing next to each other with the words the wooorst

Cloudflare

Anthropic finally blocked pi-mono 😩

Yes good call! I should ask for an API key..

An Incomplete List Things I Want to Make A laundry list of things that are blocked by frictions

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(muscles spasming, jaw tightening terminally) oh so this is like a carbon tax

Amazing comic

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