Daniel P

My modal generative AI use case remains "make this mean email sound nicer"

I'd guess going for 2 down 8 happens more often as time winds down, which would probably reduce win rate as well. You could check this as well, just by taking the average time on the clock when the decision was made.

Forgive me for this late night Point Reyes posting

Deafheaven's New Bermuda might pair unusually well with John Carpenter's The Fog

So October 2 in East Lansing was apparently just a grassroots gathering then lol

I followed you!! (Tnkrtlrsldrspy)

Do you have a letterboxd?

Ostentatious stick count at four

I think there is an IRL stick nation meet up happening today?

Development of an Offline-Friend Addiction Questionnaire (O-FAQ): Are most people really social addicts? - Behavior Research Methods A growing number of self-report measures aim to define interactions with social media in a pathological behavior framework, often using terminology focused on identifying those who are ‘addicted’ to engaging with others online. Specifically, measures of ‘social media addiction’ focus on motivations for online social information seeking, which could relate to motivations for offline social information seeking. However, it could be the case that these same measures could reveal a pattern of friend addiction in general. This study develops the Offline-Friend Addiction Questionnaire (O-FAQ) by re-wording items from highly cited pathological social media use scales to reflect “spending time with friends”. Our methodology for validation follows the current literature precedent in the development of social media ‘addiction’ scales. The O-FAQ had a three-factor solution in an exploratory sample of N = 807 and these factors were stable in a 4-week retest (r = .72 to .86) and was validated against personality traits, and risk-taking behavior, in conceptually plausible directions. Using the same polythetic classification techniques as pathological social media use studies, we were able to classify 69% of our sample as addicted to spending time with their friends. The discussion of our satirical research is a critical reflection on the role of measurement and human sociality in social media research. We question the extent to which connecting with others can be considered an ‘addiction’ and discuss issues concerning the validation of new ‘addiction’ measures without relevant medical constructs. Readers should approach our measure with a level of skepticism that should be afforded to current social media addiction measures.

Had missed this absolutely brilliant paper. They take a widely used social media addiction scale & replace 'social media' with 'friends'. The resulting scale has great psychometric properties & 69% of people have friend addictions.

link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Did he pull a muscle line dancing?

If I get accidentally Bronsoned for this, I knew the risks

Made toad in the hole with Japanese milk bread

Packers win, post cheese

Not an entirely positive response to that Jayden Reed touchdown in East Lansing

I wanna be Tucker Kraft when I grow up

A quick bit of journalism reveals that at least three members of Trump's cabinet claimed more than one property as their primary residence, and I'm starting to wonder whether Trump's attacks on Lisa Cook reflect a sincere concern about mortgage fraud.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Fair. The ministry of peace would have been too on the nose

Used the calculus textbook I've been lugging around since 2012

Just thought everyone should know

YouTube video by grapefruitdiva MST3k says: Packers win the Super Bowl!

This has been running in a loop in my brain since the Parsons trade
youtu.be/0iqLhdInGrk?...

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit really nailed what being an economist is like

Herbert Simon was spitting: "They believe that businessmen maximize, but they know that economic theorists satisfice"

(Teaching micro this fall, and preparing for a day on economic modeling.)

Just had an e-commerce website route me to a buy now pay later product with no option to pay directly/using a credit card (at least without an account). I'd be interested to know how common this experience is, and why a platform would have a default like this

Paper: A Statistical Critique of Antoni-St. Onge (Nov. 2024)
Given EJ Antoni has been nominated to be head of one of the most important statistical agencies in the country, we should know how much he knows about statistics #econsky
www.ssc.wisc.edu/~mchinn/OnAS...

this is where I post from

A real "uber for buses" moment

Always incredible to have Adobe's AI offer to summarize an academic paper when I have the abstract pulled up

Postdocs: Penn is preventing a vote that would protect the workers who help it succeed | Opinion Penn's postdoctoral workers and research associates want to unionize — like the grad student workers did. But the university is putting obstacles in their way, say Marshall Padilla and Emily Perkins.

www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

Liam Neeson al Gaib

Leo having a degree from Villanova means Philly would only claim him after other Philly affiliated Cardinals were out of the running