Econometrics was the greatest branding exercise in the history of the social sciences.

Economists endorse Harris for President....and, of course, it is yet another Acemogulu et al. paper. #EconSkydrive.google.com/file/d/1_BtX...

I think a lot of this confusion can be explained by saying synthetic is a transform of original data. You can get much much better vision models by applying transformations and we've done this for a long time. No reason this shouldnt work on text, i.e. translations, summaries, elaborations

What did the linear algebraists know and when did they know it?

I have accidentally taken a big dose of vyvanse and have been non-stop replying since noon. Zero work done only posting. Cant recommend it

A story in four parts: 1) US GDP growth has outpaced all other G7 nations 2) it's even outpaced pre-COVID projections 3) inflation-adjusted wages are up, and most for low-wage folks 4) wages at the bottom rose so much, income inequality is down, undoing 1/3 of its growth since Reagan

People joke about tech naming being non-sense, but im in a devops meeting today and im hearing stuff like "We use argo CD and extensions for canary deployments","Rancher is imperative, so you make these kubernetes objects", "the app can do route based bootstraping" and i feel insane

Scientific fraud has real costs and requires stricter monitoring, as well as a reevaluation of the reward system that encourages it.

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From Alex Stapp on the other place www.vox.com/future-perfe... >cardiologist fakes data showing better outcomes for patients who were given beta blockers before heart surgery >Europe changes its medical guidelines based on this research > but beta blockers increase risk of death by 27%

The staggering death toll of scientific lies

From Don Poldersmans and Francesca Gino to faked Alzheimer’s data, the scientific field needs a better handle on allegations and consequences of fraudulent research.

okay, high-level post-breakfast thoughts: 1. we literally have the tech to decarbonise power tomorrow, for the vast majority of the world's population. problem is social/political/industrial fight, not tech. 2. agriculture can largely decarbonise with management practices, though not fully.

“It is like financial and mental torture.” Fraud is running rampant in Canada’s temporary foreign worker program, robbing desperate migrants of their life savings and undermining the immigration system. Read The Big Take here“It is like financial and mental torture.” Fraud is running rampant in Canada’s temporary foreign worker program, robbing desperate migrants of their life savings and undermining the immigration system. Read The Big Take here

Migrant Workers Lured to Canada Are Being Scammed Out of Their Life Savings

Desperate for a chance at a new beginning, newcomers are paying tens of thousands of dollars for mainly low-level jobs