Now on arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2404.11794

I'll do a longer thread---and this little toy example just scratches the surface of what's possible---but edsl (pip install edsl) is an open source python package & domain specific language for asking LLMs questions

Congrats to the latest batch of AI Grant companies!

When Norway moved to the typical US model, where the university (not faculty) holds majority rights to new innovations, it caused a 50% decline in both entrepreneurship and patenting rates. Quality measures for university start-ups & patents also declined: aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Help. Advice to find a puppy that got out of her collar and ran off to morningside park? Been looking for an hour and a half.

Slam Diego!

👏👏👏Great paper by Neale Mahoney Ray Kluender and colleagues with great reporting, as always, by Sarah Kliff. Authors did an RCT on whether eliminating individuals' medical debt improved debtors' financial and physical health. TLRD: it did not and may have made things worse

Wow the sun is totally covered

🚨New Paper! Super proud of David Holtz and our coauthors Felipe Lobel, Ruben Lobel and Inessa for publishing this great work from David's Thesis: 'Reducing Interference Bias in Online Marketplace Experiments Using Cluster Randomization' in INFORMS Management Science

The task-based analysis of how AI affects jobs is a powerful technique for creating business value. It was pioneered by Workhelix’s Erik Brynjolfsson et al. Now, Workhelix has developed technology to apply this at scale, by automatically examining a company’s job descriptions,

this is the typa shit that makes me feel incredibly patriotic toward America

Earthquake? Wtf?

California stop sending your stuff here. We didn’t want the forest fire smoke either.

Alireza Javadian Sabet and his research on workforce development through education earns runner-up recognition from judges and wins the people's choice award at the PittResearch 3-minute thesis pitch competition! sci.pitt.edu/news/three-min…

LLMs: Continuous databases!

This is exactly my view too:

100% agreed on this opportunity, and proud to see Erik Brynjolfsson, among other roles a founder of Workhelix, talking about it in the NYT.

nytimes.com/2024/04/01/bus… James Milin Daniel Rock Andrew McAfee 🇺🇦

#proudinvestor

“there’s no fundamentals in crypto”

obvious evidence to the contrary:

The Fed has been perfectly consistent on this all along and yet they’ve had to keep saying it bc market doesn’t believe it and keeps thinking that the Fed is politicized etc that they’d cut regardless what happens to inflation. No. The reaction function is perfectly transparent.

🤖🔮New *Real Time* Data and Working Paper on AI Use 🤖🔮
Our earlier work using firm survey data on AI use was prior to the rise of LLMs. This new data from BTOS covers Sep '23 to Feb '24 and asks about both current use and future expected use of AI. census.gov/library/workin…

Last week, I described four design patterns for AI agentic workflows that I believe will drive significant progress this year: Reflection, Tool use, Planning and Multi-agent collaboration. Instead of having an LLM generate its final output directly, an agentic workflow prompts