Kevin Milligan

Tarps off, get on the police horse, and LFG!!!!!

Defence!

The Time of Your Life: On the Economics of Longevity and Mortality with Kevin Milligan | Canada's Economy, Explained | Episode 12 Canada’s population is retiring earlier and living longer. Even so, the age 65 retirement threshold, inherited from 19th-century Prussia, continues to anchor public policy and social expectations. In ...

Adding to my list: The Time of Your Life: On the Economics of Longevity and Mortality, with @kevinmilligan.bsky.social (which happens to showcase some of the work we've loved doing for the past few years!)

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Love his reaction here. Like, "did that really just happen?"

MASON FLUHARTY ⚾

I feel your pain, brother. This was me in May.

Darn Jays are in a bad streak right now. But I recovered my mood by watching the 7th 8th and 9th of the MIA NYY game. Yankenfreude felt GREAT.

No other way to slice it: this is incredibly fucked up.

Tsunami watch issued for much of B.C. coast after M8.7 quake off Russian coast | Globalnews.ca The magnitude 8.7 quake struck 136 kilometres southeast of Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka, shortly before 4:30 p.m. PST on Tuesday.

A powerful earthquake off the coast of eastern Russia has prompted a tsunami watch for much of the British Columbia coast.

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That's almost surely what he meant. I dont see that as a bad thing? Isn't pitch sequencing all about strategic behaviour?

Be like Max, kids...

Oh, I'm a big fan of Jomboy breakdowns and other content.

But this ep of Talkin Yanks was particularly full of schadenfreude for Jays fans!

The Yankees Played the Worst Game Ever. | 1256 YouTube video by Talkin' Yanks

Enjoyed some Yankenfreude last night listening to this....

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if you start writing simpsonian stuff about uncle fred from saltspring island I'll have your head

but more generally congrats!

Search for B.C.'s Best Symbol: Round 1 — Animals | CBC News Iconic symbols connected to a particular place are formed in all sorts of ways, and there are so many across British Columbia. But which one is the best?

64 ICONIC SYMBOLS

1 CHAMPION

THE SEARCH FOR BRITISH COLUMBIA'S BEST SYMBOL BEGINS NOW

Meerkats....

Garden Saturday:

Lamb's ear: looks tasty but 🦌 dont eat!

Brunnera: big healthy patch.

Deer fern: in spite of the name, 🦌 don't eat it.

Mewr cats among the Japanese tassle ferns.

Oh yeah: Romano for RP.

For SS, Otto Lopez who grew up in Montreal and played for Canada in the 2023 WBC!

Who is Big Russ?

For the 2026 World Baseball Classic, here's a possible Canadian roster:

C: B Naylor, Hicks
1B: Freeman, J Naylor
2B: Joulien
SS: ??
3B: Toro
OF: O'Neill, D Clarke, Jared Young
SP: Pivetta, Quantrill, Soroka
RP: Brash, Cade Smith, Sabrowski, Zastryzny

Not bad. Looks like a .500 MLB team to me.

SOLE "Oh Canada!" Session, Friday 9:45-11

"Investing in Mothers? The Long-Run Impact of a Universal Childcare Program on Maternal Work and Income"
Presented by Michael Baker, @econuoft.bsky.social , coauthors J. Gruber and @kevinmilligan.bsky.social

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Hmm. Maybe our different tastes come from the fact you read a lot of fiction so you're used to (and perhaps enjoy) not knowing where it will go. I want all uncertainty resolved ASAP and tonnes of structure. Doesn't work so well in fiction. "And now I present a key plot point..."

What's more, I want every section to start off saying what it's going to do. If I have no idea where it s going then it's much harder to know what to focus on. "This section presents the results in three parts. First OLS. Then IV, then robustness." So helpful! Anyway to each their own.

I want to know if there's going to be a model before or after the data. Are there going to be simulations. Perhaps how the results are going to be presented. It gets me working on what to expect and saves brain from contemplating false paths. I really do like them!

I'm here to defend it. I want to know what's coming so I can ration my attention. If you know what's coming you can put things in context and not waste energy and lose interest wondering where it is going to go.

Made it to the top. Took 🚡 up and cog train down. Even walked over to Austria/Tirol.

Got a little Eibsee Rundgang in before Frühstuck. The trails here are very....civilized. Also, no the water was not stinky.

Next up this morning: the cable car up to Zugspitze.

Do i really need a second one?

AllTrails launches AI route-making tool, worrying search-and-rescue members One of the world’s most popular hiking apps has a new generative AI feature that can be asked to "shorten my route" or "make this more scenic." But the people in charge of searching for lost hikers sa...

"AllTrails has a new generative AI feature that can be asked to 'shorten my route' or 'make this more scenic.'

But the people in charge of searching for lost hikers say the feature is going to exacerbate an issue they’ve been warning about for years: hiking apps providing false information."