Adam Chapnik @alsosortofadam.bsky.social · 5hI looked at the OpenAI math problem stuff and this seems like just a publicity stunt, nothing about training and testing their models. If people who did their PhD on those problems don't yet understand the answers, there is no way OpenAI was able to confirm they actually solved them. 121
Reposted by Adam ChapnikClayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 08/10/2026New paper in @psrm.bsky.social How we measure racial bias is important, but there is no clear agreement (rather a lively methodological debate) among political scientists about the best way to do so. 2174
Reposted by Adam Chapniknoam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Toy Story toys crave to be played with even though it requires them to feign inanimacy. What they truly crave is death 619630
Adam Chapnik @alsosortofadam.bsky.social · 27/09/2026accidentally bought vegan cheese slices for a grilled cheese. no good 120
Adam Chapnik @alsosortofadam.bsky.social · 27/09/2026yes i've heard the song but crucially i can recall that i've heard the song only because of the very memorable misheard lyrics 000
Adam Chapnik @alsosortofadam.bsky.social · 27/09/2026clearly incompetent, so therefore bad, therefore evil QED 000
Adam Chapnik @alsosortofadam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026from my experience there are actually many bad seats but i still applaud this 010
Adam Chapnik @alsosortofadam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026was just send nearly 40 bucks for some class action lawsuit from a couple years ago so let this be a lesson to always click on links in your spam email folder 000
Adam Chapnik @alsosortofadam.bsky.social · 17/09/2026say what you will about google, but google play books is one of the last remaining places where you can download the digital books you purchase so that they can't be taken away when the seller's proprietary software is retired 010
Reposted by Adam ChapnikBarry Lam @hiphination.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Please every academic, let the world know, has ordering books, distributing a syllabus, advising a student club, th most basic administrative tasks, become more or less efficient in the era of millions spent on software and administrators? globecollegetown.substack.com/p/higher-ed-...globecollegetown.substack.comCollege campuses need to be liberated from their administratorsHigher ed is being strangled by absurd and costly rules. What message is that sending to students? 2135
Adam Chapnik @alsosortofadam.bsky.social · 25/08/2026just finished my qualifying exam so the plan now is to never read or write about politics ever again 060
Reposted by Adam ChapnikAmanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Wrote this back in May and I stand by it: Ken Martin has got to go - it is a huge problem that the DNC has no money and somehow even less trust as we head into a presidential primary in 2027-2028. open.substack.com/pub/amandali...open.substack.comWhy the DNC autopsy report mattersTLDR: Ken Martin should resign & we should stop settling for mediocrity 2219544
Adam Chapnik @alsosortofadam.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Xfinity claims that their customer support is "AI" which might be nominally true, but they have chosen to use the cheapest and least intelligent option available on the market 000
Reposted by Adam ChapnikTom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 26/07/2026Americans have more confidence in higher education than in big tech companies, and the gap is growing rather than shrinking. The higher ed-doomsday pundits need to get on board with the real vibe shift in public trust that is happening right now. 211351410
Reposted by Adam ChapnikShane Phillips @shanedphillips.bsky.social · 22/07/2026This week on the UCLA Housing Voice podcast, Matthew Mleczko shares his research on how exclusionary zoning in more affluent communities increases material hardship for residents of impoverished neighborhoods nearby. lewis.ucla.edu/2026/07/22/1...lewis.ucla.eduEpisode 120: How Exclusionary Zoning Hurts Poor Neighborhoods with Matthew MleczkoWhen cities adopt exclusionary zoning, their housing stock becomes scarcer and less affordable over time. Matt Mleczko shares research suggesting that the impacts extend beyond exclusionary jurisdicti... 21710
Reposted by Adam ChapnikNBC News @nbcnews.com · 18/07/2026BREAKING: Two U.S. service members were killed while defending against an Iranian ballistic missile and drone attack in Jordan, and another service member is missing, U.S. Central Command said.nbcnews.toTwo U.S. service members killed in Jordan and another is missing, military saysU.S. Central Command said four other U.S. service members were treated for injuries and later released. 2814669
Reposted by Adam ChapnikBrett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 18/07/2026I heard an interesting proposal for fixing academia: require faculty to do a keg stand. Not even something heavy like PBR, just Miller Lite. Our students do dozens of these a year; we should be able to do them, too 1253
Adam Chapnik @alsosortofadam.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Feeling like an asshole. Finally gave in and have begun trying to write a paper in Latex locally on my machine, with a GitHub integration for branching. I'd prefer to use Overleaf, but for some reason these features suck, even in the premium version I get from my university. 100
Reposted by Adam ChapnikWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Our media will of course learn no lessons from this, but the initial ICE narrative about the two murders it committed here in Minneapolis was 100% false, slanderously depicting the victims as aggressors attempting to kill federal agents. Literally zero reason to believe ICE here. Zilch. None. 171022204
Adam Chapnik @alsosortofadam.bsky.social · 02/07/2026so what's the consensus about at which professional settings it's acceptable to drink a non-alcoholic beer? 000
Reposted by Adam ChapnikMichael Bench-Dracula @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 28/06/2026No disrespect but you are not the author of a successful webcomic 021
Adam Chapnik @alsosortofadam.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Sure, the stakes are lower, but this just shows that my 3-star average movie rating on Letterboxd is clearly justified by it being drawn from a more equitable probability distribution 220
Adam Chapnik @alsosortofadam.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Andrew Cuomo's everywhere for those with the eyes to see them 100
Adam Chapnik @alsosortofadam.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Putting it on record that I predict in 2-4 years we're gonna be seeing MAHA influencers advocating for you to forgo refrigeration 000
Adam Chapnik @alsosortofadam.bsky.social · 21/06/2026I received a check in the mail from my former landlord (of more than a year ago) for $1. 020
Adam Chapnik @alsosortofadam.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Listened to a recent Odd Lots about tomatoes, and was reminded of one of the silliest dishes I've had at a restaurant. A single fresh cherry tomato with a piece of salt on it — that's it. Luckily for them, the rest of the meal was pretty good. 000
Reposted by Adam ChapnikAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/ 27692623994
Adam Chapnik @alsosortofadam.bsky.social · 20/06/2026An observation: Economic papers (esp. in the last ~20 yrs) that present formal models almost always empirically test the relevant mechanisms *in the same paper* whereas in political science it's common practice to publish formal models alone and with limited evidence. Why the divergence? 210
Reposted by Adam ChapnikCentral NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Who could have guessed that the NJ elected official who used to be a hitman for the mob might be a crook? www.nj.com/news/2026/06...nj.comThe ex-mob hitman who became a N.J. councilman just got arrested on loansharking chargesThe councilman — who was once mobster John Gotti Jr.'s right-hand man — is accused of threatening violence to get property and money, the state Attorney General said. 2224
Reposted by Adam ChapnikAdam Chapnik @alsosortofadam.bsky.social · 19/06/2026This is a self-fulfilling prophecy, not actual evidence of Twitter being a toxic hellhole. Having been actively curating my feed on there and here, I can confidently say both recommendation algorithms are pretty awful by default if they don't know your preferences. 111
Adam Chapnik @alsosortofadam.bsky.social · 19/06/2026This is a self-fulfilling prophecy, not actual evidence of Twitter being a toxic hellhole. Having been actively curating my feed on there and here, I can confidently say both recommendation algorithms are pretty awful by default if they don't know your preferences. 111
Adam Chapnik @alsosortofadam.bsky.social · 18/06/2026ICYMI forthcoming book from Bawn et al. (Sept 2026) Parties on the Ground: A Study of Nominations for the House of Representatives press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...press.uchicago.edu 100
Adam Chapnik @alsosortofadam.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Not the point, but this isn't happening just because Muhammad is an extremely common name—the jointly important fact is that nowhere near a plurality of boys in the UK have ever been named Oliver or Noah. If 25% of Christian boys were named Oliver, it would still be the most popular name. 010
Adam Chapnik @alsosortofadam.bsky.social · 15/06/2026If true, the reporting on this so-called agreement has been horrendously credulous. 000
Adam Chapnik @alsosortofadam.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Got to see him perform a few years ago. Actually kind of crazy he was still performing until recently, he looked very tired. The Wedding, Barakaat, and The Mountain are some favorites of mine. 000
Reposted by Adam Chapniklauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 15/06/2026i don't miss the headphone jack because wireless headphones are great and i don't miss earbuds getting violently ripped out of my head several times a day because i have the motor controls of a violently drunk chimpanzee 84123466
Reposted by Adam ChapnikRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/06/2026I'd add that even this were happening -- and there's zero evidence that it is -- unless the funder is a foreign entity, **it is not a crime** to pay protesters. 1030360
Adam Chapnik @alsosortofadam.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Feels kind of obvious. Google lawyers are either playing 3D chess or should find a new profession 020
Adam Chapnik @alsosortofadam.bsky.social · 10/06/2026TBH I have to admit I was under the impression that this guy was Jack Schlossberg 100
Adam Chapnik @alsosortofadam.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Replicating the modeling steps of papers I like and making little changes here and there actually isn't that bad, have to admit 000
Adam Chapnik @alsosortofadam.bsky.social · 08/06/2026There must be a way for the city to prevent this? I don't understand why they would take part in these gymnastics 000
Adam Chapnik @alsosortofadam.bsky.social · 08/06/2026I'm just curious, does this mean the crystals don't have power? Or is this the doing of the crystals? 000
Adam Chapnik @alsosortofadam.bsky.social · 08/06/2026I'll take a picture one day but almost daily I can watch from my balcony people getting towed from the Walgreens parking lot. Sometimes they chase down the guy before he gets to them. 000
Adam Chapnik @alsosortofadam.bsky.social · 07/06/2026It's kind of an awful situation but despite my practical incompetency doing microeconomic modeling, I am becoming very interested in doing microeconomic modeling, and I really do not want to learn the fundamentals 000