My friend @peterharveydigital.bsky.social is graduating from his PhD in Literary Linguistics today 🎉.
I really enjoyed this summary of his thesis: www.peterharveydigital.co.uk/post/what-do...
There are nice parallels with work in econ e.g. doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
German colleague asked why so many people live in California with disasters like fire, mudslides, earthquakes. I used to live in Los Angeles. The disasters are evidence *for* how nice a place it is to live. If everyone lines up at a kebab stand in a war zone, you should believe it is damn good kebab
There's lots of low ticket warnings for our April tour!
If you've not got on it yet, don't snooze.
Get your tickets now: www.pigsx7.com/shows
A great follow
Fridtjof Nansen – Farthest North. Nonfiction that reads like fiction
The real reason Finland is the happiest country in the world isn't the sauna (www.economist.com/europe/2024/...); it's this:
A group of researchers has attempted to replicate our work on self-control and asset market prices published in the Review of Financial Studies (doi.org/10.1093/rfs/...) and not been able confirm our findings. See doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
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#EconSky
Inspired by @tapiorasanen.bsky.social, here is a starter pack for economists conducting field experiments 🤓🫶
Please let me know who is missing – and share widely! 🚀
go.bsky.app/9hev4gN
🤸♂️Our research center @rationalitycrc.bsky.social: fantastic because we have fantastic junior researchers.
For #Econsky, I highlight our current Ass't Profs / postdocs. Worthwhile to check them out, e.g. as possible seminar speakers. Please see my reply – I list those on Bluesky. 🙏
✋ very nice list Stephanie
We're hiring: Full Professor in Financial Economics! In my (perhaps biased) view, our department has a vibrant research environment—yet friendly, and with a lively faculty lounge! Spread the word!
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Holy Cow! This paper sounds...big! #EconSky
"The information resulted in changes to property prices and altered the market's hedonic equilibrium, providing a new finding that climate adaptation can be forward-thinking and proactive."
www.nber.org/papers/w33119
My first post here. <looks around>
Less bot-generated social conflict than the other place! I like it.👍
Trent Reznor walking like a dumbass
I’ve got bad news for anyone who laughed at that photo of John Lennon
New fallback response to tough seminar questions
Pretty pumped to present this new work with an amazing coauthor team at OI tomorrow
opportunityinsights.org/updates/2023...
a gothic infographic about fixed gear bikes
it's extremely useful
New ChatGPT prompt: "make me an infographic about..."
My guess is with mentimeter it’s hard to link individual responses across questions and compute statistics/make figures but I’m not sure
I’ve found that Google forms work well for these kinds of things because you can set up a linked Google sheet that does calculations (you need to use “array formulas” to allow live changes to the dataset) and pre-generate graphs that update with one click
OK good counter example. Maybe it still works for convex tables?
hm good point. assume a finite table and aisha and shuhei are really good at balancing plates
Symmetric table is interesting. true I only know the solution for a symmetric table but maybe you can adapt it to asymmetric tables? Feels like the pizza theorem en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_t...
what's her strategy?
that is, so long as you assume aisha and shuhei play optimally...
most people picked #3 or #4, but both of those are incorrect :)
I used this excellent puzzle as a warmup in class yesterday
(credit: @valeriaburdea.bsky.social , image credit: DALL·E)
