One of my main regrets in life is to only have understood the pun in "Nero Burning ROM" *after* CDs became obsolete.

This is not okay and is not sustainable. It's time to get serious about how to handle shoplifting and disorder. The answer can't be long prison sentences, but it also can't be nothing. The AV CJ team is holding a BRIDGE event on how to handle retail theft, early in 2025. Looking

Your first draft isn't meant to be perfect, it's meant to make you question every decision you've ever made in your life

Working the Saves The Day show 20+ years after I pretty much wore out their CDs in high school. You all will gratified to know that emo kids still don’t jump around at shows.

Starting my Black Friday Email Unsubscribathon early.

Hanging on for Day 3 of Advent of Code. A good little regex puzzle today.

Anybody else find Part 2 of today's #AdventOfCode easier than Part 1? I really enjoy when I can put (almost...one little helper function) the entire problem in a single #RStats tidyverse pipe.

I got pretty busy toward the end of the week, but I'm back in the stars for #AdventOfCode. Kinda regretting using #RStats for today's recursion-heavy puzzle. Might need to learn something faster...

Such a clear sign that students have grown accustomed to not having enough repetition and spaced practice when the they all say, “but we’ve done this already” and “why do you keep bringing this back?” Because I’m here to make sure you don’t forget it.

Things got busy again (I'm going to try to catch up after grades are submitted...) but I'm back at it. #AdventOfCode #RStats

My syllabus explicitly says that (1) I don’t do bumps because they favor already-privileged groups and (2) now having been informed of that fact, asking for one violates our code of conduct, and therefore results in a REDUCTION from your course professionalism component.

My schedule only allows inconsistent participation, but I think my 9th grade math teacher would've been proud of me. Thanks, Mrs. Mills, wherever you are! #AdventOfCode

The US discovers 2/3rds of all approved drugs in the world. Hate the system, okay, but innovation can be both life-saving and costly at the same time.

I think I'm going to get really into The Smiths. Feels appropriate.

Will it also drastically undervalue the opportunity cost of 5+ prime early career years?!

I am updating R. Please clap/pray for me.

If you wanna be radicalized against the Jones Act, read Michener's novel "Alaska."

The working paper for the Many-Economists project, which got a lot of juice from this very platform, is available! The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics looks into researcher degrees of freedom and tries to isolate which ones are important. Data cleaning!

Reach out to folks at Arnold Ventures if your research has a strong causal design, and/or overlaps with our areas of policy interest. We may be able to provide bridge funding!

We're hiring! The Arnold Ventures Criminal Justice team is looking for a Research Director to join our team. They'll report to the fabulous Ashna Arora. Salary: $145-200k Location: Houston, DC, or NYC (not remote) More info here: arnoldventures.org/careers/direct… Please RT!