edit : I think I’ve also seen them in June? There are no conferences in Paris in August.

really? Even in August? I know some French economist with fairly fancy shorts that they wear in urban settings.

That’s exactly the issue!

No, I haven’t, but thanks for suggesting it.

Two thoughtful essays about the impact of LLMs on graduate education:

ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

economics.mit.edu/sites/defaul...

From personal experience I think the self-control problem mentioned in the first essay is very real.

Andor is even more political and arguably better. (Written by Gilroy not Lucas)

Thanks!

I like this study because it confirms my prior. 😅 do you know what if anythinghas been done in the way of replication either in this species or other others?

I agree, I am deluged with people offering to upgrade my page for a fee and I’d guess that you get a lot more of those offers and unlike me could list them as a business expense.

Great choice!

P.s. OK maybe cancel out was an overstatement but I think the headline and post overstated the difference between what people are looking at and what they should be looking at

But MET is based on heart rate, so everything would be fine if people use their watches to compute their MET. The bigger problem is the third one the article points out, which is that smart watch heart rate readings aren’t necessarily that accurate – much better to use a chest strap.

It seems to me that this article makes three points, two of which cancel each other out:
1. People talk about their VO2 max when they are really extrapolating it from heart rate data and not getting it tested in a lab with a mask.
2. What has been shown to matter for longevity is actually MET. 1/2

Yes, it’s a great explanation. But as Doctorow points out in pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/3..., the EU has an even better response: repeal Article 6 of its copyright directive.

He makes some excellent points, but the essay would’ve been better if it were half as long

Nice article. But the American preference for personal trucks is driven in large part by their break on CAFE standards.

Really glad right now that overly mostly uses Google cloud

Way to go Sally! links.mit.edu/nl3/N5Jy2cKq...

The other day a student asked me about the prevalence of insider trading in prediction markets. I now have an answer.

1. Truffle salt with dried truffles or truffle oil? (Not a fan of the latter),
2. How does the timing work? Bring fries home? Bring martini to McDonalds? Or ???

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Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves the World Day, everybody.

42 years ago today, Lt. Col. Petrov prevented an accidental nuclear war.

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There is some related work in economics on tournaments and patent races, some of which does discuss the choice of riskiness (and also of correlation or lack thereof between different projects). I don’t think any of it is exactly what you’re doing here you might be interested in seeing what’s in it

Nice twist!

“Plausible deniability, I’ve never heard of it. “
“ all of my notes in a desolate pile, I haven’t touched an age.”
I think the album is pretty catchy alt rock

It’s already on the reading list for my new behavioral class, have to update the .bib to reflect that it’s published

Is there currently a program that can determine whether a given matrix is completely positive? ChatGPT 4o can’t seem to do it even when asked to explain its reasoning.

Jason, I agree. But I have to say the whole thing makes me feel very uneasy.

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It did find something wrong in one of mine, that Ben fed it!

I hope they do release it . It would be nice to be able to compare its chain of thought with yours.