No no--I promise you, from experience, you'll regret feeding cocktails to the kids. They only get louder.

BREATHE IN, BREATH OUT, BREATHE IN, BREATH OUT, BREATHE IN, BREATHE OUT... 🤼

Mathematical Economics cannot survive in its current echo chamber. The field needs to find its own umpire. 5/X

We now know there is no winner, but lots of great alternatives for controlling complex systems. We need to test lots of alternatives because our mathematical models are always flawed. 4/X

They could fight like this, claiming superiority via their theorems, only because there was no unbiased umpire to pick a winner. When computers became practical for realistic simulations we had the judge we needed so we could test theory against the closest thing to practice. 3/X

It wasn't always explicit in public, but I remember some passionate conversations. I moved away from my advisor's doctoral topic precisely because one of his colleagues (a compelling "great man") declared that adaptive control was nonsense. 2/X

Mathematical Economics today is in the state of Control Theory when I was a graduate student. In those days, “important men” would declare that one approach is pristine and the others tainted---fights among the three flavors in vogue: robust, optimal, and adaptive. 1/X

I'm giving a lecture at IHP in Paris this afternoon. Lots of economists will be in the room. This is what I would like to say:

@supermeyn.bsky.social is kicking off the eighth C^3 Workshop, aka the Cognition & Control Workshop, in the Reitz Union Chamber. Two days of discussion about control and cognition, including information theory and statistical learning. Mindbending stuff. lnkd.in/giUjHu7e

If you're interested in control and cognition, including information theory and statistical learning, the 8th annual Workshop on Cognition & Control (C^3), this Thursday & Friday in the Reitz Union Chamber, is for you. Full schedule and more info: meyn.ece.ufl.edu/c3/c3-8/
@supermeyn.bsky.social

Robust Yet Fragile The benefits and perils of control as hidden technology, 2025 edition.

Engineers don’t move fast and break things, they respect the unstable: realizable.substack.com/p/robust-yet...

www.johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com

U.S. economic blackout planned for Feb. 28 No corporate spending, stop faschsim, project 2025c racism

A U.S. Economic Blackout — a nationwide economic protest — is scheduled for Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. On this day, participants are encouraged to refrain from making any purchases, both online and in-store, from large corporations.

I like that he posted a picture of a print-out of the email.

Delta Airlines Doubles Down On Commitment To DEI Initiatives The airline's announcement comes as many companies are rolling back diversity programs in the wake of the Trump administration's anti-DEI stance.

Delta Airlines Doubles Down On Commitment To DEI Initiatives #HuffPostUsNews www.huffpost.com/ent...

Delta airlines flight with a DEI sticker

This plane is NOT going down

Frans Oliehoek on LinkedIn: Interested in RL and its links to control? Join us March 24 and 25 at the… Interested in RL and its links to control? Join us March 24 and 25 at the CWI, Amsterdam, for a great workshop on these topics! Speakers include: Sean Meyn…

RL & fun in Amsterdam next month !

#eceflorida

So, what is congress doing to stop this?

Flood the zone. Electeds, activists, & leaders, don’t assume people know what’s going on. Tell them everywhere that:

Trump & Republicans stopped Medicaid.

Trump & Republicans stopped housing assistance.

Trump & Republicans stopped schooling for children.

Charlamagne Wants Dems to Embrace GOP's Model Of Incivility | The Daily Show YouTube video by The Daily Show

Please, watch it to the end!

I would like to see the Royal Society Expel Elon Musk. His membership is a disgrace and an insult to the Royal Society's core values of "promoting excellence in science for the benefit of humanity".

Ramon Llull AIRA Open Calls Open Calls In our inaugural call scheduled for December 2024, we aim to select up to 17 exceptional postdoctoral fellows, with an additional 16 to be chosen in Call 2 in 2025. 20  December 2024 ...

check this out: new postdoc program for AI-related research in Catalunya!

our group is looking to hire within this program, ideally to work on topics related to RL theory. in case you're interested, pls DM or email me.

(retweets appreciated!)

ramonllull-aira.eu/application

No fun down here
Hell freezing over

Not feeling super top shelf 😿

Moda Urbana? My buddies in Illinois know the vibe.

Did you know it has gone big in the Ciudad de Mexico?

Viva Urbana!

Hide! I am staying SO FAR from the radio!!

I’m on it!
Got anything for lunchtime?

Happy Upside Down Day😻

French movement asks X users to leave platform on US inauguration day The French Human Rights League (LDH) is asking the public to join them in a mass exodus of X, formerly Twitter, on January 20.

www.euronews.com/next/2025/01...

#HelloQuitX

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