How can Boston have such an incredible concentration of the world's brightest minds while simultaneously having an accent that I refuse to associate with smart people?

The coding robot keeps making up packages so I will try my distributed convoluted neural network. I need to overwrite a specific cell in excel while preserving formulas/formatting elsewhere in the table. Any ideas how to do that? Ideally in R but I'll do it in python if need be.

Congrats! You've been named the head of the Department of Terraforming. You have an annual budget of $40 Billion, and your job is to develop technology to that will mitigate, slow, stop, or even reverse global warming. What's the plan, boss?

I dont know who needs to hear this but its time to spend down your HSA. Its time to buy $800 worth of Ace bandages again.

How do people who live in single story houses grade their finals?

We have three choices when it comes to traffic enforcement 1. The status quo, which is clearly broken. 2. No enforcement whatsoever, which we saw the effects of during the pandemic. 3. Automated enforcement via cameras.

I regret to announce that I was able to do this in python in like 3 lines with no bullshit.

I went to a fancy person dinner party last night where it was gauche to take out your phone. People would wonder something around a fact like whether Mormons or orthodox jews have more kids... and then no one would look it up and we just wouldn't know.

Without looking it up or being Ryan, with what country does the United States have its longest-running, unbroken treaty with?

If the free market is so efficient why does Trader Joe's run out of Peppermint Joe Joe's in mid December every year? In my debut article for Jacobin I argue...

Friendship ended with inverse hyperbolic sine. Now Heckit is my best friend.

I was looking up white shoe lawyers for a joke I was working on and I refuse to believe that "Squire Patton Boggs" is not a character from Game of Thrones.

Who was it that talked about going into a meeting with Kerry Smith when Kerry brought two coffees, didn't offer either to the visitor and then drank them both during the meeting?

Me, when my stated preference survey isn't showing high enough WTP to justify new greenways.

I'm hiring a data scientist/economist based in Guadalajara. A great opportunity for an IO/demand PhD grad or a data scientist with experience in pricing. jobs.hp.com/jobdetails/177…

I'm hiring IO PhD interns over the summer, specifically interested in people doing BLP/discrete choice/pricing. If you or your students are interested, please reach out for more details.