Brice @brice.green · 25/09/2026The day someone invents sausage egg and cheese breakfast bao buns is the day some makes a billion dollars 010
Brice @brice.green · 24/09/2026Yeah that's all thanks to Opus 5.5 suggesting the structure, I can't really claim credit. 000
Brice @brice.green · 24/09/2026Yeah that would be cool! The data structures I have are all pretty simple so I imagine it would be pretty easy to figure out how to e.g. import a bibliography and its tags into semble. 010
Brice @brice.green · 24/09/2026I don't know how Zotero works, so maybe! I'll look into it. This whole project is ~a day old. 120
Brice @brice.green · 24/09/2026Login and all the data is handled by the protocol. Idk if this will be used by anyone else, but if you have been looking for zotero that is also strava then this is the app for you! Curious for thoughts / feedback / requests. 020
Brice @brice.green · 24/09/2026I made a little social bibliography atproto app. You can post papers you read and see what your friends are reading. Paper info autofills from links, and it exports to bibtex. There's chronological and following only feeds, maybe more to come, and you can organize papers into lists for your own use.papers.clubpapers.club 5155
Brice @brice.green · 22/09/2026Every year is a new set of triumphs and failures and goals and adventures, but this is just kicking me in the stomach today. What a wonderful moment but also what a different time. Anyway if you haven't listened through the epic you should. 000
Brice @brice.green · 22/09/2026It's just so strange to reflect on the person I was. It's almost alien. Music was the most important thing in the world to me, and I don't even really play anymore. And honestly, I miss it sometimes but mostly I don't? I like what I do now? 200
Brice @brice.green · 22/09/2026I was right out of school and in the audience with my own band and thinking man, how did anyone make something this good? And the strings! There was a full string section! And a choir! And a DJ! And his dad came on stage and sat in. Makes me cry to be honest. 100
Brice @brice.green · 22/09/2026Today I'm remembering the greatest concert I've ever seen and missing more than ever the people I used to make music with. Kamasi ending a massive tour for a jazz album that came out of basically nowhere, coming home to LA. So much joy.open.spotify.comThe Rhythm ChangesKamasi Washington · The Epic · Song · 2015 110
Brice @brice.green · 22/09/2026To be fair regular llms also do this extremely regularly brice.green/papers/llm_e...brice.green 100
Brice @brice.green · 20/09/2026Do you think this would be fixed in part if people could see what papers other people were reading? Like strava but for academics almost 130
Brice @brice.green · 05/09/2026Everyone knows that -> is the only valid assignment operator because we read left to right 011
Brice @brice.green · 03/09/2026What did he knownytimes.comA Yale Professor Suggested Mass Suicide for Old People in Japan. What Did He Mean? (Gift Article)Yusuke Narita says he is mainly addressing a growing effort to revamp Japan’s age-based hierarchies. Still, he has pushed the country’s hottest button. 020
Brice @brice.green · 01/09/2026a good album for a rainy tuesdayopen.spotify.comSleep On The Wing - Album by Bibio | SpotifyBibio · album · 2020 · 10 songs 020
Brice @brice.green · 01/09/2026It's election day here in Somerville, and you should get out and vote! It feels really good to participate, and it doesn't take long. If you're not sure who to vote for, in my opinion @burhanazeem.bsky.social is the right man for the job.voteburhan.comBurhan for Massachusetts — State Senate 2026Burhan Azeem is running for State Senate to represent Cambridge, Somerville, Medford, and Winchester. He will create more housing, better transit, and opportunity for working families. 0101
Brice @brice.green · 30/08/2026I don't have too many bluesky followers but thoughts and questions are welcome! 010
Brice @brice.green · 30/08/2026What's nice about this is that you can run the test for any setting: you don't need any human data to do it. That's important for evaluating whether synthetic samples work in new situations or experiments, since otherwise you can't evaluate the performance without running the experiment! 110
Brice @brice.green · 30/08/2026Populations have a very simple property: if you split them up, the average over everyone has to sit between the average of the subgroups. LLMs fail this very simple test a huge amount of the time. We think this is a pretty big problem for doing inference with LLM-simulated panels. 110
Brice @brice.green · 30/08/2026New (very short) paper posted! Researchers have been exploring using LLMs as substitutes for human subjects. We find that LLMs are not reliable substitutes, and generate samples that are statistically impossible almost half the time, about what you'd expect from a random number generator.brice.green 151
Brice @brice.green · 09/08/2026I've had good luck with the recipe from this paper: arxiv.org/abs/2501.00536arxiv.orgPhase behavior of Cacio e Pepe sauce``Pasta alla Cacio e pepe'' is a traditional Italian dish made with pasta, pecorino cheese, and pepper. Despite its simple ingredient list, achieving the perfect texture and creaminess of the sauce ca... 000
Brice @brice.green · 04/08/2026If you're looking for recs, mouseguard is pretty fun and in the same vein as redwall + there's a great ttrpg built in the universe (www.mouseguard.net/rpg).mouseguard.netRPG — Mouse Guard 120
Brice @brice.green · 29/06/2026Some thoughts on LLMs and automated social science: brice.green/blog/2026-06...brice.green2026-06-29 The Hypothesis Space is BoringPerhaps against my better judgement I’ve started working on a paper studying the use of LLMs as stand-ins for humans for, e.g., polling, A/B testing, and social science research. 041
Brice @brice.green · 25/06/2026It all makes more sense when you realize banning air conditioning is Europe's way of managing their pension obligations. 130
Brice @brice.green · 19/05/2026Yeah that works too! I have access to specific partitions / file systems, set up my projects a certain way, etc. It was just looking up the engaging docs (orcd-docs.mit.edu) every time so I just had an instance write a skill based on them and some other details I gave and lightly edited. 120
Brice @brice.green · 19/05/2026It's so good at this that I actually made an HPC cluster specific skill with the relevant docs on partitions / available gpus / batch syntax. Worth trying imo if you haven't 130
Brice @brice.green · 27/04/2026Underdiscussed that n-d chess gets easier as n grows because it becomes nearly impossible to capture pieces in high dimensions. 010
Brice @brice.green · 15/04/2026www.cnbc.com/2017/12/21/l...cnbc.com$24 million iced tea company says it's pivoting to the blockchain, and its stock jumps 200%Long Island Iced Tea said Thursday it's now "Long Blockchain Corp.," and its stock is taking off. 120
Brice @brice.green · 31/03/2026The paper has more to say about growth than business cycle dynamics. In this case heterogeneity comes from productivity shocks + sorting into firms, displacement is costly because you lose your best job offer. But monopsony -> passthrough -> income risk is probably more general. 110
Brice @brice.green · 31/03/2026You might be interested in my paper! In our model monopsony has direct relevance for the passthrough of shocks to workers and implications for income risk. There will be a new draft soon but I think the core stuff is in this version. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.comWinners and Losers: Competition, Creative Destruction, and Labor Income RiskUsing U.S. administrative data, we find that technology-driven creative destruction in the product market passes through to worker earnings. The passthrough to 131
Brice @brice.green · 29/03/2026My dad got me The Marina Abramović Method for Christmas last year maybe I should get him the MrBeast equivalent this go around 120
Brice @brice.green · 09/03/2026A really lovely album for the beginning of spring open.spotify.com/album/0Blf8v...open.spotify.comFLUGEL 000
Brice @brice.green · 08/03/2026That might be changing! arxiv.org/abs/2508.18413arxiv.orgParallelizing MCMC Across the Sequence LengthMarkov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods are foundational algorithms for Bayesian inference and probabilistic modeling. However, most MCMC algorithms are inherently sequential and their time complexity... 020
Brice @brice.green · 04/03/2026Sotd open.spotify.com/track/14YAS5...open.spotify.comWaters of March 020
Brice @brice.green · 04/03/2026I got a lot out of David Lewin's Music Theory, Phenomenology, and Modes of Perception back when I was doing music theory. 130
Reposted by BriceIan Arawjo @ianarawjo.bsky.social · 01/03/2026To date, HCI researchers have had no support on signaling their paper's relevance to AI, esp. when that connection is tenuous at best. We introduce a systematic framework to ensure LLMs are mentioned at every stage of paper reporting—from framing, to evaluation, to implications. 0273
Brice @brice.green · 28/02/2026I think that this just isn't true though. Software devs use llms for generating code all the time and think it's pretty good. 000
