Jim Savage @abiylfoyp.bsky.social · 08/11/2023It would be better if really nice things were not so damned expensive 010
Jim Savage @abiylfoyp.bsky.social · 01/11/2023Oh god. I need to get my arsenic levels checked stat. 030
Reposted by Jim SavageMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 25/10/2023If you’ve ever spent even one day in Mexico City, don’t miss this. tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl/index.htmltenochtitlan.thomaskole.nla portrait of Tenochtitlana 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empire 0115
Jim Savage @abiylfoyp.bsky.social · 24/10/2023A nearby restaurant has the following appetizer on their menu: donuts drizzled with truffle oil, covered in pecorino and parsley, served with marinara sauce. $10. 100
Reposted by Jim Savagesoodoku @soodoku.bsky.social · 23/10/2023from news.gallup.com/opinion/poll... nice context for some of the progress the country has made over the last 80-odd years on racial/ethnic prejudice. 32510
Jim Savage @abiylfoyp.bsky.social · 21/10/2023The 10yo is obsessed with Seinfeld. And, strangely, Eraserhead. 040
Reposted by Jim Savagevalue plus discounted @akhilrao.bsky.social · 18/10/2023🛰️ #envecon So one of our key findings was the size of environmental damages from satellite constellations determines whether the market will make them too big or too small relative to what's socially optimal Some evidence on those damages here: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.…pnas.orgPNASProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans... 121
Reposted by Jim SavageMolly White @molly.wiki · 07/10/2023From yesterday's exhibits in US v. Sam Bankman-Fried: The prosecution shows that the "insurance fund" that FTX bragged about was fake, and just calculated by multiplying daily trading volume by a random number around 7500 28689180
Reposted by Jim SavageJason Kerwin @jkerwin.bsky.social · 16/10/2023I've developed a new forecasting tool! You tell me what your education intervention is, including the full details of how it changes teacher and student behaviors. Then I use advanced AI methods to predict that the effect size is 0.1 SDs. #econsky 3738
Jim Savage @abiylfoyp.bsky.social · 11/10/2023Fun undergraduate econometrics exam essay in here somewhere 120
Jim Savage @abiylfoyp.bsky.social · 06/10/2023Who do I know in Boston area who’s game for a dinner party next week? 000
Reposted by Jim SavageStuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 04/10/2023Re: recent discussion about Katalin Kariko-- In 2009, Carol Grieder won the Nobel Prize for her work on telomeres. That same day, she got a notification that her NIH grant proposal was deemed not worthy of discussion due to "limited preliminary data."youtube.comCarol Greider - Same day, a Nobel prize and a grant rejection!Carol Greider - Same day, a Nobel prize and a grant rejection. 131
Jim Savage @abiylfoyp.bsky.social · 02/10/2023The fact Philly is not a coastal city and Chicago is just feels wrong. 000
Jim Savage @abiylfoyp.bsky.social · 02/10/2023The fact Philly is not a coastal city and Chicago is just feels wrong. 100
Reposted by Jim SavageKhoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 02/10/2023Hearing the two stories about Francesca Gino and Katalin Kariko within a short window of time is insane. 17915
Reposted by Jim SavageKhoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 02/10/2023Me trying to remember the name of the RA that did all analyses of a seminal paper that got me a $500,000 salary. 1044057
Jim Savage @abiylfoyp.bsky.social · 29/09/2023Currently downloading 200k papers. Doing research with network data is fun. Accessing it is a pain. 020
Jim Savage @abiylfoyp.bsky.social · 28/09/2023Much progress is really just realizing existing rules were just dreamed up and aren't at all necessary. 010
Jim Savage @abiylfoyp.bsky.social · 28/09/2023Crowdsourcing ideas for a document of "solved problems worth solving". Structure: - Here is a problem and the real consequences - Other places have had the problem and solved it. - If 5-10 people spent a decade on it, they could prob solve it here. 222
Jim Savage @abiylfoyp.bsky.social · 28/09/2023Very cool— fit multivariate state space models with stationarity of the state process enforced by the Heaps prior. Potentially helpful to many of you. nicholasjclark.github.io/mvgam/articl... 031
Jim Savage @abiylfoyp.bsky.social · 30/05/2023New post on a management tool I’ve used over the last few years. For early stage projects, it can be a game changer. jimsavage.substack.com/p/the-share-… 000
Jim Savage @abiylfoyp.bsky.social · 30/05/2023I want to see a show like Alone but called “Together”. Groups have to form and survive in small tribes, allocating roles and dividing labor, creating lore, egging each other on. And fighting moose. 110
Reposted by Jim Savagebeth @bethbourdon.bsky.social · 29/05/2023probably should have typed out lake shore drive 501254232
Reposted by Jim SavageArpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 28/05/2023Summers Corollary: it takes as much effort to think about a policy reform that changes the world as changes academia; and only one of those matters; so you might as well focus on the world 121
Reposted by Jim SavageJamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 15/05/2023More (though fewer fatal ones, presumably because they rarely go on highways) acrs.org.au/files/arsrpe/RS050099.p… 111
Jim Savage @abiylfoyp.bsky.social · 15/05/2023Adjusting for hours spent driving, do taxi drivers have more or fewer accidents than other drivers? 110
Jim Savage @abiylfoyp.bsky.social · 13/05/2023Has the number of bits of information you need about the shape of a car to distinguish its make and model increased over time? As in, have cars become more similar? 200
Jim Savage @abiylfoyp.bsky.social · 13/05/2023Huh. Lyft’s market cap is 1/25th of Uber’s. Hadn’t been following and this is surprising. 010
Jim Savage @abiylfoyp.bsky.social · 11/05/2023Watched My Cousin Vinny on the flight over. It’s good! 000
Jim Savage @abiylfoyp.bsky.social · 10/05/2023I ask Uber/Lyft, Delta/United apps to track my activity on other apps. Treat ‘em mean… 000
Jim Savage @abiylfoyp.bsky.social · 09/05/2023I find myself repeating @yashkaf.bsky.social ‘s advice to singles (useful for non-singles too): try finding reasons to like other people rather than finding reasons not to like them. 110
Jim Savage @abiylfoyp.bsky.social · 08/05/2023A challenge in Data Science: data scientists who know how to avoid all the traps of bad analysis suck at building scalable tools. And visa versa. Prediction: AI assistants seem to be better suited to helping researchers do software engineering than helping software engineers become researchers 240
