“The doers are the major thinkers.” — Steve Jobs

Please pray for my friend Charlie Kirk and his family

“A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.” — Confucius

Vibe coding just seems to keep getting better and better. Not sure if it’s models or me just getting more used to the tools.

It's super unclear what will happen with AI. But I think it's clear that you should hedge the risk AI replaces you.

Good paper.

PhD students spending 6 years writing a book-length dissertation that at most 3 people will ever read:

Average person: "hey does anyone know where I can get a good full size keyboard" Applied Microeconomists: "actually you want this instead, it saves desk space and you don't need those extra keys anyway"

How physics should be taught in schools 👏

Just realized Tony Stark vibe coded everything with Jarvis, dude did nothing

“You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.” — Milton Friedman

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GPT-5.1 is out! It's a nice upgrade. I particularly like the improvements in instruction following, and the adaptive thinking. The intelligence and style improvements are good too.

AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current

🚨 Path analysis is everywhere—but often misunderstood. ✅ This article offers clear guidance for rigorous, transparent use. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11… Lennox & Payne-Mann (USC) #PathAnalysis #ResearchMethods #QuantitativeResearch #AcademicWriting #BestPractices #SocialScience

I hear CloudResearch is promoting that they have solved the AI respondent problem and are using my work to sell the solution. I have no relationship with them and they have not provided *ANY* evidence of efficacy. Be very skeptical. Again, I encourage them to post data or a

The Standard 💪 Congratulations, Grads!

I gave my PhD research methods final to ChatGPT and it absolutely smoked it.