Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Live picture of Trump showing his cross-modality matching tariff results where he was asked to adjust the brightness of a light and loudness of a pure tone to generate power functions that would set the tariffs. 020
Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · 16/03/2025It is annoying that this point is not well understood. Here is a simple example. 120
Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Your effects are not synergistic because your scales are ordinal. 231
Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Name a paper that was *way* ahead of its time. For me, it is this one. This man, working entirely on his own with almost no field existing yet . He understood things so deep and well. 110
Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Better than Smith or Marx. Lots of game theory and suboptimal Nash equilibria. 1111
Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · 03/01/2025I took the train from LA to Raton, New Mexico, 22 hours. No sleeping car. Loved it. 010
Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Though it can write a coherent essay, ask an LLM to list all US states that have the letter "r" and it will produce something like this. So we can't surmise a correct answer from this simple question from a more complex one. 100
Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · 15/12/2024This looks like one of those situations where they wrote "46-86" and the journal came back and said "we don't allow hyphens for references".🙃 020
Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · 03/12/2024It is crazy that we complain about daylight savings differences when between the late 1500s and the mid 1700s you could lose 10 days simply by going from France to England. 000
Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · 17/11/2024The bad intuition that risk aversion for small stakes gambles implies reasonable levels of risk aversion for stakes gambles. 130
