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Sam Altmann @saltmann.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

This is pretty tough reading ngl

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Sam Altmann @saltmann.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I’VE BEEN HAVING A TERRIBLE MORNING

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Sam Altmann @saltmann.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

On this day, of all days, make sure to check in on your gullible friends. It can be a difficult time of year for us. I’m personally grieving that my old school friend isn’t actually getting married next month. I really hoped him and that lady he met on holiday would go the distance :(

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Sam Altmann @saltmann.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Econ PhD students and Postdocs!!! Make sure you submit your papers to the QMUL workshop - the deadline to submit is next Friday. We’ve got some great keynotes! :) And don’t believe the rumours about London weather in May. I hear it’ll be glorious and sunny.

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Sam Altmann @saltmann.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I made a little pasta Please appreciate my little pasta

A little pasta

(Farfalle, artistically shot)

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Sam Altmann @saltmann.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

*or just, y’know, Smith tbh

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Sam Altmann @saltmann.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Marking exams, and I’m kinda dismayed at how many times I’ve read “firms are maximising profits, therefore social welfare is maximised” :/ Guess I really need to channel Marx* harder in my IO lectures next year…

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Sam Altmann @saltmann.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Hi - I suspect you might want the other Sam Altman (who I don’t think is on bsky, or at least not yet). I’m much less interesting!

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Three postdocs positions (36 months each) are available in the School of Geography at QMUL; all working on a great ERC project on the dark side of green energy (waste, labour rights, etc) with Dr Carlo Inverardi-Ferri. Please share! qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

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3x ERC Postdoctoral Research Associate positions - QMUL Jobs

ID: 4721. Title: 3x ERC Postdoctoral Research Associate positions. Application Deadline:

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Sam Altmann @saltmann.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I know a lot of Harvard’s course material is all accessible online. Otherwise both the Open University and Open Yale Courses have modules in GT - I suspect there are others as well. One thing to look out for is that sometimes GT is taught from the maths/OR departments, other times from economics.

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Sam Altmann @saltmann.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Eg: Game Theory: A very short introduction (Ken Binmore) The Art of Strategy (Dixit and Nalebuff) Game theory: a critical introduction (Hargreaves-Heap and Varoufakis) -> this one has more conceptual discussion in it. (These were all on our reading list) For more advanced content…

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Sam Altmann @saltmann.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Honestly, that course really isn’t worth your time - it was more setting students up for modules later in the degree. There are some very good introductory books (and more advanced books) I’d recommend instead…

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Sam Altmann @saltmann.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Hi, what questions do you have? That course was an undergraduate game theory module I taught some years back. The Dropbox link was specifically just to some revision material for the students to help them prepare for the exam, hence no documentation.

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Sam Altmann @saltmann.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Please enjoy this happy little mole on a discarded scrap of paper my mother-in-law doodled. She is very talented.

An adorable sketch of a mole in hat n gloves looking wistfully (?) at the snowman he’s just made

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Sam Altmann @saltmann.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Someone sent me a great article combining two things I spent a disproportionate amount of time doing - Chopping onions, and Multivariate Calculus: medium.com/@drspoulsen/... About how to cut onions to ensure all the pieces are as close to uniform size as possible. I love this stuff

medium.com

A solution to the Onion Problem of J. Kenji López-Alt

Kenji López-Alt posed a mathematical problem on his YouTube channel about how to best cut an onion. I present a detailed solution.

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Sam Altmann @saltmann.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

Spare a thought for the poor souls that dropped this. I can only imagine their pain :(

A single missing jigsaw piece found lying on the pavement.

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Sam Altmann @saltmann.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

Now that’s just fighting dirty…

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