In any case, here’s a picture of a beaver that’s proud of its work.

Ok guys. I’ve been investing a lot of time this semester learning about Claude code, agents, skills, etc…. I’m officially scared and feel old as fuck.

NGC 2903 and messier 37. Caught from my front yard.

Friday afternoon naps hit hard.

The dept of Economic History in Lund is hiring a new Senior Lecturer! Ad is here, deadline 17 May:

lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

lunatic

Starting to think that if the founding fathers were any good at founding fathering, they would have given the power to declare war to Congress rather than one man in the White House.

Looking to use Claude Code as an applied economist?

This excellent series by
@paulgp.com covers how to set it up, data analysis and web scraping. Amazing work!

Looking forward to the next episodes

Screenshot from "Loi de Poisson" (French Wikipedia article). It says, "Ne doit pas être confondu avec Loi de Fisher."

Bilingual joke? French Wikipedia says the Poisson distribution is "not to be confused with Fisher's distribution" (the F-distribution)

fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loi_de_...

looking for an economic historian of the Soviet Union and successor states at the University of Toronto!

We are hiring! Applications are now open for a Lecturer in Economics and Public Policy! We are looking for someone doing policy-relevant microeconomics.

Come to beautiful Scotland and help us build the UK's quantitatively-focused MPP!

Apply here: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

While social media shows you extreme content, AI is more likely to show people more moderate content

This means the technology, on average, could have very different effects on polarization.
www.ft.com/content/3880...

I’m pleased to report that, apparently, in the eyes of my 10 year old my most outstanding characteristics are being a Brazilian jiu jitsu blue belt and having a very hyper-extended right elbow. The two are likely related.

German friends, this one is for you. Surely the culture that gave us the monad has a word for this…

Is there a word for a scientific model that works absurdly well, nobody really knows why, everyone is a little embarrassed about that, and we use it all the time anyway?

#LLMs #QuantumMechanics #LoggingTheDependantVariable

my favorite application of zipf… premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/d...

Zipf’s law drives anyone who thinks too much about it into gibbering madness

This is incorrect.

One thing I haven’t been able to get Claude to do is clip a figure or table from a paper to include in a beamer slide deck. Is this impossible or is it just me?

It’s almost like they’re incapable of thinking about the consequences of their actions before they act.

In the future when we look back, it will be clear that Musk and Trump were the two people most responsible for transition to EVs

Environmentalists that are anti-density and pro-parking are like public health advocates that are pro nuclear waste bathing.

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Phew. Glad the disruption will last long enough for wise American voters to punish a future Democratic administration for it

not wrong…

Gene name errors: Lessons not learned Author summary Autocorrection is a feature of modern softwares including messaging apps, word processors and spreadsheets. These are designed to avoid data entry errors but “autocorrect fails” can lea...

This is wild:

Over a third of genetics papers published in top journals in 2014-20 (including Nature, Cell, and PNAS) have errors whereby genes with names like SEPT8, DEC1, or MARCH3, were turned into dates by Excel automatically!

The issue was first noted in 2004.

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