One of the most important insights Poole & Rosenthal had with voteview is that we don't really need to know anything on the payload of a congressional bill to extract a lot of ideological data from it. Bills are a means for ideological signaling. Twitter works the very same way.

Christoph Terasa MIGO Thomas Wieland 'Ideology is the science of what goes with what.' -- Philip Converse.
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Imagine an experience as a melody on the piano. A sequence of neurons fires, just as a pianist taps out a tune. That series is replayed during sleep — but faster and potentially hundreds or thousands of times — to form a memory. quantamagazine.org/electric-rippl…

Hard to avoid the impression that the current attempt to undermine legal protections against normative opprobrium is deliberate, especially bc it is largely pushed by the stratum that discovered normative opprobrium as a new business model during the moral panic of the pandemic.

At the terminal stage of any institution, the gap between the foundational idea and its administration becomes increasingly wider until it becomes unbridgeable. The idea of Europe vs the EU, the idea of science vs academia, the idea of the Roman Empire vs its collapsing order.

A physics based explanation of why life exists in the universe medium.com/p/1131c68fc784

I wrote a little historical primer of the crossing of the streams between econometrics and machine learning that happened at the beginning of the millennium in California: 'The Dual Roots of Belief Propagation and Causal Inference' link.medium.com/n0831zSivCb

This is how ImageNet, a massive dataset opened for collaboration, started to influence the deep learning revolution. But it wasn't just ImageNet.

Check out other revolutionary AI developments like AlexNet and GPUs in my article at TuringPost!
turingpost.com/p/cvhistory6

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Somehow 🅾️𝕝𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕣 🅱️𝕖𝕚𝕘𝕖 managed to not say the words “reinforcement learning” or “free energy”, but it’s *plainly* a pitch that both of those things should be central to modelling economies and markets. And that’s, like, the most CyberCat Institute thing I’ve heard in my life

New blog post!

On Organization, by 🅾️𝕝𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕣 🅱️𝕖𝕚𝕘𝕖 econpatterns

“The make-or-buy decision boils down to the cost of holding control over the production process vs the cost of losing control over it”

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I'm not sure if trying to govern by jumping on every moral panic that rides thru town is a feasible long-term strategy. Especially if you're already down in the polls.

“Operations research cuts over to (mathematical) economics at the same juncture where decision theory crosses over to game theory: when the diverging interests of the participants move to the forefront of the analysis.”

Can confirm. Studied Econ but play an OR role.

Human dignity shall be inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority.
-- Article 1 of German basic law.

Happy 75th anniversary, German basic law!