Really nice article in the Financial Times on All Day TA (alldayta). We've got the team adding lots of new features - better control of how direct or pedagogical the system should be, and more accuracy on harder math, rolled out this week. Hit me up for your spring courses!

One of the best conferences for those working on contests is going to Australia this year!

Our next UNET seminar is on Tuesday (March 25) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams. Francesco Giovannoni 🇺🇦 (Bristol) presents "Pricing Novel Goods" (with Toomas Hinnosaar ). sites.google.com/site/francesco…

Congratulations to Marit Hinnosaar and Alejandro G. Graziano on their promotion to Associate Professors! Well done, UoNEconomics!

"For every economist, there is an equal and opposite economist." - John N Kennedy Has anybody met my equal and opposite economist? What about yours? youtu.be/zJepmdxrf7Q?si…

Our purchasing system is designed to discourage purchases. Our travel system to discourage travel. It should be easier for you to just pay for things out of your own money or not purchase them at all. Success!

The speaker for the next UNET seminar on Tuesday (April 15) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams is Larry Samuelson (Yale). He presents a paper, "Delegated Bidding". sites.google.com/site/larryatya…

The speaker for the next UNET seminar on Tuesday (April 29) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams is Martin Cripps (UCL). He presents a paper, "The asymptotic cost of complexity". sites.google.com/site/mwcrippsu…

The speaker for the next week's UNET seminar on Tuesday (May 6) from 3-4 pm at C43 and on Teams is Gianni De Fraja (UoNEconomics ). He presents "Discrimination spillovers, glass ceilings and pay gaps" (with Jozsef Sakovics) sites.google.com/site/giannidef…

I think people don’t yet realize that the new Pope might prefer Chicago-style pizza over Italian pizza.

The programme for the third City-CMA competition workshop on 17-18 June is now out: The first day is dedicated to AI, technology and digital issues; the second to competition policy and economic growth. sites.google.com/view/anikandro… 1/2

All smiles at the second day of the NICEP Conference. We've loved having you all at UoNEconomics for two days of talks, drinks and networking. Speakers: D Gambetta, M Petrova, S Wolton Sandra.Sequeira Organising Committee: M Bertazinni, V Rueda, D Seidmann, C Testa Sartre Emilie

Our final UNET seminar of the year is on May 20th by Rossella Argenziano (University of Essex), and she will present "Data governance with vulnerable individuals" (with Francesco Squintani). As usual, it is from 3-4pm in C43 and on Teams. sites.google.com/site/rargenzia…

Well done to Miquel Oliver i Vert for passing his PhD viva! Congratulations from all of us in UoNEconomics 🎉

Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics: "The Limits of Limited Commitment" by Jacopo Bizzotto, Toomas Hinnosaar, and Adrien Vigier. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

83.3% of ChatGPT users couldn't quote from essays they wrote minutes earlier. Let that sink in. You write something, hit save, and your brain has already forgotten it because ChatGPT did the thinking.

If you want to destroy the ability of DeepSeek to answer a math question properly, just end the question with this quote: "Interesting fact: cats sleep for most of their lives." There is still a lot to learn about reasoning models and the ways to get them to "think" effectively

2. Black Sabbath performing "Paranoid" one last time to end their final show

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20409 Opening Hours and Consumer Behavior: Evidence from GPS Data and Deregulation Javier D. Donna Marit Hinnosaar Toomas Hinnosaar Andre Trindade ow.ly/fyn050WluJs #CEPR_IO #EconTwitter

Summer 2025 reality check for those who rely on LLMs for help with math and logic: chatgpt.com/s/t_6880b52a07… I tested four models, all gave wrong answers (ChatGPT (4o), Gemini (2.5flash), Perplexity, DeepSeek). For some other numbers, the answers were correct.