I’m excited to start handling behavioral and applied micro papers at the AER in July. I hope to be able to read some great submissions!

This week, from the archive: How Sight—Not Taste, Smell, or Touch—Became the Sense of the Supermarket By @AiHisano behavioralscientist.org/how-sight-not-…

What is the persuasive impact of a single touch? Michael Banissy(Michael Banissy) explores the research on how a seeimingly insignificant touch affects our behavior—like how much we tip, donate, or spend in store. behavioralscientist.org/tips-clicks-an…

The past two years have been the most fulfilling in my life. Under the leadership of CM M.K.Stalin, I presented one revised budget (’21 - ’22) during the pandemic, and two annual budgets (’22 – ’23, ’23 – ’24) post-pandemic. Despite inheriting record deficits and debt ratios, we

Maybe. Lots on the agenda though.

#BlackMirror is awful 😀

Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb has interesting perspectives on many issues and I had the opportunity to hear them on some of those subjects. He was greatly interested in India’s development strides. I emphasised on how we are nurturing a spirit of enterprise and risk taking among our youth.

Just published my latest #medium #playingtowin Practitioner Insights piece. This one one Commercial #innovation in #champagne rogermartin.medium.com/commercial-inn… #strategy Enjoy!

There's a lot of fairly ill-tempered debate among economists about news that should make everyone happy — disinflation without recession. My thought: we should apply Occam's extended razor. When in doubt, go for the simpler story, and rely on standard models 1/

Study [after study after study] Finds Homelessness Is Caused By High Cost Of Living, Not Substance Abuse More great journalism by ⁦Invisible People ➤ Imagine Everyone With a Home⁩ invisiblepeople.tv/study-finds-ho…

At #WEF24, Nandan Nilekani will be joined by Bill Gates and Zanny Minton Beddoes as they touch on the impacts of #climatechange, geopolitical tensions, and the upcoming pressures of the year ahead. Read more about ‘Navigating the new world disorder’: infy.com/3TVHgo0 #InfosysatDavos

I just received a demo of the upcoming IRS Direct File tool. The IRS has built an impressive product that will give taxpayers a secure option to file their taxes online for free. This pilot program will start small in 2024, to allow the IRS to test it and learn from taxpayers.

NEW POST David Tan and Jessie Wang reflect on how regular engineering practices such as testing and refactoring helped them deliver a prototype LLM application rapidly and reliably. martinfowler.com/articles/engin…

NEW POST Generative AI may be more useful to understand code rather than generate it. Birgitta Böckeler explores this by picking an issue from an open-source hospital management system and seeing how AI helps her tackle it. martinfowler.com/articles/explo…

🎯 Having raised my kids, given birth & practiced medicine in both the US & Denmark, I am also fascinated by how many more vaccines the US gives to children than Denmark & most Americans I meet are shocked to learn: Denmark 🇩🇰 -does not give Hep B at birth unless the mother is

Great to see so much developer and community activity around Spring AI. Gen AI on the JVM is really taking off and will be increasingly important. Gen AI support should often be a layer on top of existing apps, not a reason for a new stack. spring.io/projects/sprin…

At this point, any open source platform for building AI agents should be using agents built on itself for accelerating project development, documentation and marketing. Dog food is good

We've done a lot of work polishing Embabel's API & adding and improving Java examples Our example repo now has more Java examples. Agents look great in modern Java The JVM FTW. Two great language choices github.com/embabel/embabe… #embabel Java #AgenticAI Georges Saab Spring Boot