Ravshan Hojimatov

I defended my dissertation today. This means that I am leaving my organizational theory adventure behind me and from now on I will be focusing on economic transformations and regime shifts. I will appreciate any information on relevant papers or research groups that I can join. #EconSky

"Deep" insights of some papers be like: "structural change can be caused not only by exogenous factors but also endogenous ones". Wow, mind blown :D

When I prompt: "Please spoil me what happens after season 2 of Vinland Saga. Or do you think I should read manga myself?" every single LLM tells me that I should read manga myself but then goes on and spoils it anyway in the same response. Interesting.

"I used to feel guilty in Cambridge that I spent all day playing games, while I was supposed to be doing mathematics. Then I realized that playing games is math."
John H. Conway
Made with #python #numpy #matplotlib

Telling "your research paper must tell a story" is the academic equivalent of driving instructor saying "release the clutch smoothly".

Advice on your next scientific presentation: everything on the slides must match what you are saying. Figures and tables are there to serve you - not the other way around.

Hi, can you explain why this is a good idea?

Wow, didn't expect this topic come up on my feed here :) I only properly watched Star Wars as an adult, so I assumed that there'll always be some plot lines for kids that I just have to ignore to enjoy the core story. That's why I genuinely loved TLJ - I just tuned out during side plots.

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That’s why CS are the most easily captured by this kind of scifi nonsense that spreads so easily on LW and SSC. They have no formal scientific OR mathematical training (at most they took automata theory) to encourage skepticism and they are easily flattered by visions of the world that center CS

Settling for mediocrity, given how the majority of Nobel prize winners didn't shy away from crossing disciplinary boundaries.

When we say we want older internet we don't mean bring back ugly old FrontPage designs, we mean this: open and neutral hyperlink sharing.

Bluesky loves links — we don’t downrank or deprioritize posts with links in them, and as a result they get higher traffic, so lots of people post them.

Maybe you are right. I guess, I am speaking from the experiences I saw in Kyrgyzstan and Turkey, where the test rules are well-known by everyone, and the questions are difficult just enough to filter out candidates, but at the same time solving all of the practice book guarantees a high score.

Doesn't old school standardized testing solve this in case of university applications? No essays or extracurricular - just test scores. Test rules and question types will be common knowledge, and those with effort can catch up naturally talented or not fall too far behind.

After many months of being stuck in the double blind submission limbo, I was finally able to upload the preprint of my last paper about how workers simply talking to each other might eliminate the need for upper management.
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.11807

I'm starting to think that Google's way might be correct in the long run, similar to Google Translate being notoriously bad in 2000s, while other companies used rule-based dictionary matches. Ultimately Google's approach prevailed. Or else, why are their AI Overviews so clearly inferior now?

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If you are a researcher using simulations and are making any claims other than stylized facts, you are probably speculating. No, your simulation doesn't explain this real world event that is trending on the news.

Wrote a CLI tool to rank universities without visiting JS heavy websites and spend your RAM. Then I added Clarivate journal rankings which you have to sell your soul to access.

github.com/hojimat/rank...

Herb Simon wrote that he was always a smart kid and was curious how the world works, so he studied organizations. This always felt odd to me. In my worldview he should have somehow ended up studying physics.

A meme of different kinds of generic network science papers

types of network science papers

How I was ambushed by a popup and accidentally removed my submission after paying Article Processing Charges. @elsevierconnect.bsky.social, you need to hire UX/UI people... or at least have a recycle bin for deleted submissions.

Ok

Yeah, they should replace "will" with "might"

It wasn't clear to me, so I drew a little DAG. Seems reasonable to assume that if you start looking at the causes of weak grip, you will increase probability of finding the reasons that lead to deeper problems, and this will improve overall health.

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A client couldn't understand why his SPA would cost time and money. He was like: "But it is 2025! All websites are interactive". Yeah, and frontend is a separate job nowadays... which you have to pay a whole another person to do it.