Note, it has other features I do find useful, like helping you listen to a music track behind a spoken track or audiobook, and you can have both in both ears if you like. And there are more features in the works.
Did you ever want to listen to different audio in each of your earbuds?
No, me neither, but I bet a lot of unusual people do. My cousin Dan just launched an app for this:
dicotic.com
"Two streams. One mind."
March 16 online workshop:
How should funders compare interventions across physical health, mental wellbeing, & poverty in LMICs?
WELLBYs, DALYs, etc.: metrics & 'conversion factors' matter to cost-effectiveness comparisons for major funding choices.
uj-wellbeing-workshop.netlify.app
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Finally we should separate “what research merits career rewards” from “which results need signal boosting.” The journal system is a single tool inadequately trying to serve two masters.
Ceteris paribus, surprising results may add more value. But at the same time I suspect journal are emphasizing this *too* much.
I’d also like to see more work eliciting ~policymaker beliefs and preferences/decision functions. To try to gain measures of the VOI of evidence and belief updating.
I’d say all results should be public and expert evaluators can assign different ratings for credibility and usefulness (as we aim for at The Unjournal). Then users can choose their own filters.
Those are clearly the ones that don’t deserve the grades, so give them to the remaining 15% :).
Bayes theorem made the superbowl ads!
Unjournal.org commissions expert public reviews (evaluations) and ratings. No 0/1 decisions
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Also worried about a bias in applied economic theory towards the counterintuitive, as in "Why the music industry may gain from free downloading" blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw/FCLai/wp-con...
Not that your case is quite so counterintuitive as that one; I think the intuition for OSS could go either way.
Of course economists who read the title understand you are saying "under a model that we defend as reasonable, vibe coding as operationalized... will reduce the quality of OSS in equilibrium"... but I wouldn't expect journalists or bloggers on social media to read it this way.
And finally "sustaining OSS ... requires major changes in how maintainers are paid" -- so if these changes happen in response would the equilibrium effect of vibe coding still be negative?
And then you state the result as "when OSS is monetized only through direct user engagement" -- placing a conditionality on the result.
the abstract suggests a particular model of endogenous entry, heterogeneous product quality, a scaleable input, etc. I assume the actual model embeds some further assumption? (Maybe some of these are basically fully general, I'd want to take a look).
I haven't had time to read the paper, but I'd be concerned journalists and bloggers would read the title and say "economists know vibe coding will kill open source".
But we don't. Your paper is an applied theory paper. In addition to the condition you mention,
Nice. Claude Code making things so easy. Pretty soon toddler starts vibe coding things for you!
The new seems too click bait maybe. Yes it’s catchy and fun but is it helpful for the world to state things so definitely when it’s a tentative result under specific theoretical conditions?
It’s just works the heck for a lot better than you would expect it to. It’s going to make you much more productive I think.
Welcome to the party
I've heard suggestion that outside of EE/CS/ML, & even in quant. fields like economics,
...academics don't want to use the *terminal* for 'vibe-coding', research-feedback, etc.
Yet tools like Claude Code CLI (running in the terminal) are very useful, powerful, & easy
What do others think?
I wish 2026 is the year we stop the drain that scientific publishers impose on science.
Instead of funding science, increasing shares of shrinking research budgets are funneled to publishers in exchange of.. not much.
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Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy
We want your feedback – which evaluations merit the top award, and why?
Total prize pool: $6600
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What about from colleagues or professionals you haven’t met?
How long do Unjournal evaluators take to do their evaluations? For our academic stream, about 8 hours on average, with substantial dispersion.
(Scatterplot: imputed data from 40 quantifiable responses, not including applied stream nor those who used the PubPub form.)
Jumping into this conversation in the middle but can you explain more? Abstract thinking, careful definition, breaking a problem into steps, persistence, visualizing complex objects in multiple ways, etc. all seem like important strengths to me.
Musk is on his way to becoming the world’s first trillionaire
He could have done so much good… or just paid a fair share of taxes
He chose to kill USAID, which has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them kids
