On October 6 and 7, 2026, we are organizing a two-day workshop on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin. In addition to presentations on the composition, data structure, sampling design, and w...

Earlier this year, I read Korean writer Kim Cho-yeop’s short sci-fi story collection If We Can’t Go at the Speed of Light. It was very beautifully written. I was intrigued by the first …

I recently read this quote from Albert Camus. “A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those great and simple images in whose presence his heart first …

Reliance on generative AI can reduce cultural variance and diversity, especially in creative work. This reduction in variance has already led to problems in model performance, including model collapse...

A sequence of technological inventions over several centuries has dramatically lowered the cost of producing and distributing information. Because societies ride on a substrate of information, these c...

In the past two years, I have put a lot of effort into empirically testing models and had many failed attempts. I wouldn’t call them all failures. To be fair, some are just boring instead of wrong. Bu...

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