The returns to schooling are higher now than they have ever been - at least according to causal estimates Our (w/ Psacharopoulos) new working paper in Annenberg Institute's (Brown University) EdWorking Paper series: edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/…

While school reading achievement is in the news, I wanted to spotlight the results of a new pre-registered randomized trial of distributing books to children. tl;dr distributing books to children improved their reading achievement by 0.18 SD! Thread 🧵

Homeownership rate by decade of birth by current age (United States)

🚨We found that Generative AI use has fallen to 36.7% as of September 2025 falling from 45.6% as of June 2025 but still up from 30.1% as of December 2024. This is consistent with other census data finding a recent drop among firm adoption

JUST IN: Nvidia is now worth more than 2 Canadas

In a recent lawsuit settlement, Google agrees to delete the incognito browsing data they keep about you.

Logarithms are ubiquitous in economics. They allow you to conveniently express percentage changes. However, your data includes a zero, the log representation breaks. It turns out that there is no solution fully robust to the choice of units used! 1/

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Drastic changes pre-2000s. Almost opposite trends. Interesting

In a journal that takes 1 month to give you the decision, the editor just took 2 months to ASSIGN the reviewers.

NYC Halloween parade … scaring scientist 👏👏👏

Don’t show this chart to the greens. They will ban the sale of ice cream to prevent forest fires.

New on the Anthropic Engineering blog: tips on how to build more efficient agents that handle more tools while using fewer tokens. Code execution with the Model Context Protocol (MCP): anthropic.com/engineering/co…

Introducing IndQA — a new benchmark that evaluates how well AI systems understand Indian languages and everyday cultural context. openai.com/index/introduc…

This is crazy if true?

Skills = Instructions on HOW to do your workflows MCP = Connections to WHAT you need access to Skills teach. MCP connects. Often you need both and they work alongside each other really well!

Saving this meme for later

Is this real? Wow.