This paper by Melissa Dell at Harvard reviews various deep learning models and their economic applications. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2407.15339 GitHub: econdl.github.io

🤔 Variational learning is often thought to be impractical 🔥 Plot twist: it actually works better than Adam! Meet IVON, a new optimizer that brings the best out of variational learning – 🧵 (1/9) #NLProc #ICML2024 📰 arxiv.org/abs/2402.17641 youtu.be/TRNYnRRJBRg

I knew it!

This is Dario Amodei. He's the CEO behind Claude, one of the world's most advanced AIs. Yesterday, in a 5.5 hour conversation with Lex Fridman, he revealed our timeline to superintelligence. Let me save you 5 hours: 🧵

Working in media economics? Don’t miss the CEPR Workshop on Media, Technology, and Politics, hosted at Bocconi in June 2025!

🚀 With Meta's recent paper replacing tokenization in LLMs with patches 🩹, I figured that it's a great time to revisit how tokenization has evolved over the years using everyone's favourite medium - memes! Let's take a trip down memory lane! [1/N]

In economics, editors, referees, and authors often behave as if a published paper should reflect some kind of authoritative consensus. So valuable debate happens in secret, and the resulting paper is an opaque compromise with anonymous co-authors called referees.

Le ministre des Transports espère que la taxe sur le transport aérien ne sera pas répercutée dans le prix des billets. A ce stade ca tient de la parodie.

AI systems use terms used by Democratic Members of Congress more than those used by Republicans, give more liberal policy recommendations, talk more positively about liberal politicians & figures, & score as liberal on political orientation tests manhattan.institute/article/measur…

We are happy to organize this workshop with Women in Social and Public Policy Research. LSE LSE Margaux Suteau & NYU Abu Dhabi ✨ 💡Great line-up of speakers and discussants! Paola Profeta Almudena SEVILLA Matthias Doepke Rachel Ngai Kenza Elass Ondine Berland Cecilia García Peñalosa Gabriel Leite Mariante GermainGauthier Manuel Bagues

Demain, la Cour des Comptes publie son rapport sur le déficit des retraites. Voici une analyse concise de mon point de vue. Le principe de la retraite par répartition repose sur le fait que les cotisations des actifs financent les pensions des retraités actuels. Ce transfert est

Twitter used to be my favorite place on the Internet. I've derived enormous value from it in the past 16 years. Not true anymore. Most of the people I enjoyed reading have left. My feed, which used to feature art and science and technology and humor, has become constant

Benjamin Marx, Vincent Pons, and I are very happy to publish the "National Elections Database," including the results of 1,023 presidential and 2,962 parliamentary elections conducted worldwide since 1946! nationalelectionsdatabase.com

How can researchers identify covert state propaganda campaigns in China? Hannah Waight, Yin Yuan, Molly Roberts and I are excited to share our new article in PNAS (PNASNews): doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… Thread below.

🚨Join us for our next seminar! 📌 “Diversity and Performance in Entrepreneurial Teams” 📢 Sophie Calder-Wang (The Wharton School) 📆 08/04 ⏰ 3pm CET 🔗 The seminar will be held ONLINE only

"Les droits de douane auront pour effet de restreindre le commerce américain précisément là où il lui procure le plus d'avantages" Ma traduction 👉 annotationsbis.blogspot.com/2025/04/droits…

This should be the cover of an economics textbook.

[Warning: this may offend some people!] I think economists have done society a disservice by elevating applied-micro studies that focus exclusively on the relative effects of trade across different groups of workers but are silent about the aggregate effects.

Call for Papers: The 4th Annual Zurich Workshop in AI+Economics to be held Dec 5-6, 2025, hosted by ETH Zurich and University of Zurich. illuminating keynote to be given by tom cunningham (OpenAI) organized with S Galletta D. Yanagizawa-Drott Joachim Voth Info:

From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science go.nature.com/44hKo29