The deep irony of posting this here is not lost on me, but I long for the ideal of discourse with attention to nuance rather than absolutism. In short, as a Jew I thank you Senator Schumer: nytimes.com/2024/03/15/us/…. Chuck Schumer

Check out this awesome new study by Joshua Gilbert Ben Domingue Luke Miratrix Disentangling Person-Dependent and Item-Dependent Causal Effects: Applications of Item Response Theory to the Estimation of Treatment Effect Heterogeneity …sagepub-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/10.3102/10…

After a long road, Lee, Feller, Rabe-Hesketh and I finally got our paper on estimating distributions of cross-site impact heterogeneity accepted at JEBS (arxiv.org/abs/2308.06913)! A celebratory blog post on easy things to do is here: cares-blog.gse.harvard.edu/post/plotting-… #empirical_bayes

I was helping a colleague debug something today and saw him hit up arrow in shell a few times in a row to get previous commands. I taught him control-r and his mind was blown. If you don't use control-r to search your shell history, it will change everything!

Beautiful essay on finding some guidance and solice in the now in the inspiring radicalism and moral clarity of Dr. King -- Only Revolutionary Love Can Save Us Now: thenation.com/article/activi…

Thank you, ancient copy of Funny Times

A helpful diagram for sorting through evidence that my sister sent me:

Check out this tiny tutorial written by my awesome postdoc Youngwon Kim about using LLMs (ChatGPT) to score essays for, e.g., research studies: cares-blog.gse.harvard.edu/post/essay-gra… (this will be part 1 of a 3 part series)

Excellent article on the less than excellent actions of the Harvard corp regarding past graduation: chronicle.com/article/the-ha… I appreciate the analysis of what this means for academic freedom. (It ain't good.)

Ok, so 45 billion executive pay for Elon Musk, and 6 million cars sold: this then works out to something like $7500 of every Tesla sold to date is going to Elon? Not feeling great about the invisible hand.

I had never heard of this until today, but it delights me! Can't go wrong with a plateau of productivity. "Plateau" seems so bland as a word, and thus... I'm tickled.

Check out this terrific article by Luke Miratrix and josh gilbert on using methods to test for transfer effects in vocabulary knowledge during a content literacy program: Leveraging Item Parameter Drift to Assess Transfer Effects in Vocabulary Learning tandfonline.com/eprint/Z8GYPVE…

Just put together a simple guide on how to vectorize R plots in PowerPoint. Check out my first Medium article 🥳 nalinan.medium.com/how-to-vectori…

my hopes for gen z taking over the academic review process is that it will be matched for harshness, but at least more efficient

Registration open for the AI + Innovation Summit in Zurich, hosted by Switzerland Innovation Park Zurich and ETH Zurich! 🌱🌳🌍🐋🦒 October 2 Free for students & open call for posters. summit.biodivx.org I look forward to giving a keynote talk at the summit!

I have long been frustrated by sound in restaurants---and it is getting worse, and here is why! Plus this show gives a shout out to a favorite haunt from Berkeley. castro.fm/episode/xjRDRs #fight_the_noise

The Fall of the Rebel Angels, by Sebastiano Ricci, 1720, 📸 by Nicolas Stempien-lauff

omg, yes -- e.g., "The world would be a much better place, and the workplace a great deal happier, if instead of telling women to say sorry less, we told men to say sorry a whole lot more."

Using game theory to reflect on community trust. Very clean, very nicely done, and fun to play with (takes 20-30 minutes, but even a few gives you something nice): ncase.me/trust/

Editor finding reviewers 🤝 Researchers finding journal x.com/Arezurose/stat…