One of the weirder LLM glitches I've encountered. I asked my article summariser app to summarise a PDF with no embedded full text (PDF was just images of pages). Text extraction failed silently, and so no article text was provided to GPT-4-mini. In response, it pretended to be a

Is there a word for overcomplicating a task with needless abstractions, only to achieve poorly what could’ve been done simply? In finance, that’s like delta hedging a long call and a short put separately to mimic a straightforward long stock position.

Wild how AI is quickly replacing “the market” as the preferred deus ex machina that American elites invoke to provide a future solution to a wicked problem so that they don’t need to do the difficult work of thinking carefully and making hard tradeoffs in the present day

This is really fascinating from Byrne Hobart. Money is a form of media

(1/2) We need more attention to selection bias in qualitative research. A new study in a top sociology journal examines "how young people experience policing," but it draws only on interviews of youth in an organization devoted to abolishing the police, one that bombards...

Is this real? Seems wild to use QR codes for pull transactions in payments.

This meme was a small moment of enlightenment for me a long long while back

🚨 New paper out! Excited to share this, where I take a 'weaponized interdependence' view at explaining historical failure and recent success in global tax policy - and how that view can help fight climate change and inequality🧵👇 #OA @Global_Policy: doi.org/10.1111/1758-5…

To riff on Rosa Brooks’ 2016 book: “How everything became finance and Treasury became everything”

I’m born and raised in Norway. I think it’s a beautiful country that I would love to live/build in but right now that’s not possible. Sadly Europe as a whole is falling behind due to innovation hostile policies/culture. If you all help calling it out it might improve eventually🙏

I’m a consultant in private practice in London and I treat patients covered by private medical insurance every day. If you think it’s better in the UK, think again. I’ll share some stories I and my colleagues see every day. After reading these please DM me or share your own 🧵

oh god

Is there a better feeling than receiving proofs?

Now out with New Political Economy: What's going on in the legal back-end of 'innovative' climate finance constructs? I provide some additional clues to why it's so hard to de-risk private climate finance by public means. Open access, too! tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

The stuff of nightmares

I don't know how people manage without air conditioning in this weather. The idea that opening a few windows and turning a fan on is good enough is crazy. The people responsible for stopping aircon from being built into in new build housing in Britain really should be in jail.