Let's call it the TCE/IE protocol stack of institutional economics. From Oliver Williamson, The New Institutional Economics, JEL 2000. jstor.org/stable/2565421

The entire field of machine learning exists because the partition function of the Boltzmann distribution is computationally intractable.

Art in economics typically pops up as a byproduct of a prosperous society to help wealthy patrons show off their refinement. How we have to tweak economics to come to conclude that art creates prosperity is the topic of the new econpatterns newsletter. econpatterns.substack.com/p/art-science-…

The director' office, from: László Moholy-Nagy (layout designer), Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar 1919–1923 (1923). letterformarchive.org/news/bauhaus-t…

Congratulations Professor Hopfield!

On Hopfield networks and Boltzmann machines: What the physics Nobel Prize for machine learning has to do with economics. econpatterns.substack.com/p/on-hopfield-…

While the physicists are up in arms about a physics Nobel Prize that seemingly has nothing to do with physics, I took the opportunity to write a quick rundown for econpatterns how the work of John Hopfield and Geoff Hinton can be used to advance economics.

Daron Acemoglu, Vasco Carvalho, Asuman Ozdaglar, Alireza Tahbaz-Saleh: "The Network Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations", Econometrica, 2012.

New blog post: On Hopfield Networks and Boltzmann Machines, by 𝕆𝕝𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕣 𝔹𝕖𝕚𝕘𝕖 econpatterns cybercat.institute/2024/10/14/hop…

NEVER FORGET WHAT THEY TOOK FROM YOU

Life is a Boltzmann machine, pt. 2395: Haim Sompolinsky, "Statistical mechanics of neural networks", Physics Today, 1988. doi.org/10.1063/1.8811…

New blog post: Mathematics for Governance Design, by julesh cybercat.institute/2024/10/28/mat…

Venture capital and moneyball, or why most venture firms are still not optimizing their operations. oliverbeige.medium.com/venture-capita…

New blog post: Programing Pipelines Using Dependent Types, by André Videla cybercat.institute/2025/01/13/pro…

💡 Shared via #slack @JeffEmmett On Hopfield networks & Boltzmann machines, in which 𝕆𝕝𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕣 𝔹𝕖𝕚𝕘𝕖 connects the 2024 physics Nobel Prize to machine learning and economic design. econpatterns.substack.com/p/on-hopfield-…

The sequel to my blog post a few weeks ago on implementing typechecking using lenses. I am not in any way surprised to see going to dependent lenses (aka containers / polynomial functors) reveals additional structure

A short but important post by 𝕆𝕝𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕣 𝔹𝕖𝕚𝕘𝕖: What Is the CyberCat Institute? cybercat.institute/2025/03/03/wha…

In which we introduce the least known game in game theory, the game that explains (almost) all of civilization: the protector-provider game, aka swords against ploughshares. An Economic Pattern Language: On Governance, by 𝕆𝕝𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕣 𝔹𝕖𝕚𝕘𝕖. 100% handwritten. econpatterns.substack.com/p/on-governance

New blog post: The Untapped Potential of Game Theory in Revenue Management, by Nicolas Eschenbaum cybercat.institute/2025/05/16/gam…