On data-driven model selection and the need for theory.

Can’t explain it better than this

What would be the drop in productivity for PhD students with kids and full-time working partner?

🇲🇽 => 🤦🏻‍♂️ What’s up with Nigeria, btw? What did they do?

“our findings thus imply that they [new technologies—social media] are disproportionately worsening the [editorial] quality [of news] for people who cannot afford or are unwilling to pay for news.” voxeu.org/article/social…

Yes! It’s still hard to constantly get negative feedback, though. You need a win now and then.

TL;DR: Julia -> Best Python-> For “data pipelines” and ML applications MATLAB-> No

—Thank God, I’m done with prospectus…

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Incentives in academia and the current technological environment have led science to slow down by favoring small advancements than discoveries and penalizing non-mainstream “out of the box” research, PNAS recent article argues 🧵 👇🏼

Shakira has joined the few artists to reach 100M views on YouTube in less than 3 days. Her divorce could be the best thing that happened to her, economically speaking.

Nice thread about how to write positive referee reports.

And if you are generally interested in reproducibility and want to see the most recent practices, tricks, and tools, come to the Toronto Workshop on Reproducibility on Feb 23 in at CANSSI Ontario by Rohan Alexander #econtwitter #econtoots Economics U of T

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Every time I meet my thesis advisors

Been coding in fortran recently. ChatGPt is not very good at it. Not surprisingly, I suppose there’s more on Python out there. I wonder however if this might lead in the long run to incline people’s preferences over programming languages.

¡Vamos Checo! 🇲🇽 We are pleased to announce Sergio Pérez has signed a two-year extension to his existing contract ✍️ Nos complace anunciar que Sergio Pérez ha firmado una extensión de dos años a su contrato actual #F1 #RedBullRacing #ChecoPerez

The first step of any meaningful pursuit is to severely underestimate its difficulty.