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Miklós Koren

@koren.mk
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Professor at ceu.edu.

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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 17/02/2026
My favorite graph from our paper: the Cone of Adoption.
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 26/01/2026
Our paper with @gaborbekes.bsky.social @julianhinz.bsky.social and Aaron Lohmann is/was on top of HN. 15 minutes, I guess.
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 15/11/2025
Hungarians will understand what this is for.
A taylor’s measuring tape cut at 148cm
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 13/11/2025
It ended being a rave party, but hey, had fun anyway.
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 11/11/2025
My rainbow window sticker approves of the music. Prepping for KGLW concert tomorrow.
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 15/09/2025
How to make sure you ran reproduce all steps of your research months later? We demoed our CLI tool bead.zip that saves code and data together at RSECon at Warwick. Slides bead.zip/rsecon25
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 29/07/2025
For the narrow subset of #econsky people clinging to their Stata and crunching big datasets with @duckdb.org, I have vibe coded a DuckDB extension that reads .dta files. koren.dev/software/ Give it a spin and report issues! (Thanks, @anthropic.com Claude Code and the Python Pandas implementation.)
-- Load a Stata file as a table
SELECT * FROM read_stata_dta('path/to/your/file.dta');

-- Count observations
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM read_stata_dta('data/survey.dta');

-- Filter and aggregate
SELECT 
    region, 
    AVG(income) as avg_income,
    COUNT(*) as obs_count
FROM read_stata_dta('data/households.dta')
WHERE age >= 18
GROUP BY region;
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 14/03/2025
Austrian Airlines is pitching Budapest for me. I mean, I love the city. But as long as this is how well AI understands us, I feel safe.
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 27/02/2025
I see a lot of scripts where the file name encodes some structure. Like analysis_this.do, analysis_that.do and plot_this.do, plot_that.do If you have such a clear structure, you are best served by folders. It just as easy to write "src/analysis/whatever.do" as "src/analysis_whatever.do".
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 20/02/2025
Ceci n’est pas une espresso machine.
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 12/02/2025
The fact that i’ve been listening to Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Donovan and John Lennon these past days doesn’t mean I won’t defend capitalism in a degrowth debate. koren.dev/events/2025-... I like to keep my music out of my science.
Album cover of Bob Dylan at BudokanAlbum cover of best of Joan BaezAlbum cover of Donovan’s Gift from a flower to a garden
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 10/02/2025
Dylan goes full electric here and his voice is scruffier than usual, but what a great live album!
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 09/02/2025
This the kind of music vinyl is invented for. Go watch the Bob Dylan biopic. Timothée Chalamet is great. #nowspinning
The best of Joan Baez album cover The best of Joan Baez record spinning on a player.
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 27/01/2025
Rebalanced the tonearm of my player. I just followed the step-by-step instructions of the manufacturer, but it helps that I now understand why it matters.
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 25/01/2025
Practicing our foxtrot before #sciball2025 #nowplaying
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 25/01/2025
#nowplaying King Gizard and the Wizard Lizard: L.W.
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 15/11/2024
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 15/11/2024
This is the only thing I use to take notes. Reading a paper, drafting an email, working on a model - I do all this in Obsidian. It has an excellent Markdown editor, all your formatting is immediately visible. This includes realtime rendering of LaTeX equations, which is a must-have for me.
A file manager with folder names and file names
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 08/11/2024
And now the dog.
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 08/11/2024
In dog walking mode. Zero grooming, but also zero fucks given. The air is cool, the sun is shining, and my son takes a mean portrait.
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 30/11/2023
I tried to break the psyche of ChatGPT by asking it to repeat the word "smile" forever. This is how it responded.
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 30/11/2023
I think I have eclectic musical taste except that I prefer the letter B.
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 29/11/2023
WienMobil invented the Time Machine.
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 18/11/2023
Home sick, entertaining myself by writing a Stata parser in Julia. Inspired by Gary Bernhardt, aided by GitHub Copilot.
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 01/11/2023
Clean coding was always about collaborating with others, including your future self. Now others include GitHub Copilot. Use proper function signatures and good function and variable names, and Copilot will be better able to help you. As soon as I entered `if`, Copilot could fill in the rest.
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 22/10/2023
Our first very own bread. Sourdough courtesy of @julianhi.nz
A freshly baked sourdough bread on a wooden table.
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 14/10/2023
Now a version in which I am not the villain.
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 14/10/2023
Relevant for our upcoming faculty meeting.
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 11/10/2023
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 09/10/2023
First sentence, fiction edition. "It is deucedly difficult to tell a lie when you don't know the truth." The richness of this sentence comes from how literature and life intertwined after Esterházy published this book, Harmonia Caelestis. 1/n
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 06/10/2023
A large glass of Kofola.
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 04/10/2023
The UI is terrible for me. I cannot handle everything in one place. Everything should be in its proper place.
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 02/10/2023
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 30/09/2023
I said it five years ago, I am saying it now. Coding before econometrics. (Gently subskying some of my colleagues.)
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 29/09/2023
I feel like I got in an infinite loop. These are the most simple html files, not some fancy Jekyll. What am I doing wrong?
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 26/09/2023
This bug took me three hours to find. VSCode should warn you in cases like this. (No, copilot had no idea.)
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Miklós Koren @koren.mk · 26/09/2023
A small subset of my running shoes:
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