Anti-fascism should have broad support across the American political spectrum. Elections need to be defended. Here's an open letter from retired professors at HBS in which we call for business leaders to address that need.
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After an eventful life, with major accomplishments in business and philanthropy, Ed Peskowitz succumbed to kidney failure this week. I met him only after he had turned to philanthropy, and after he had received a kidney transplant.
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There's a tension between privacy (some of it constitutionally protected) and security, involving everything from street crime to terrorism, and citizen observers of government agents and others.
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Bravo!
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In India, which already does the third most kidney transplants in the world (after the US and China), physicians and surgeons are making great progress on kidney exchange.
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You’re entitled to both type I and type II errors, particularly if you make them in a timely way:)
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The 1981 paper is Roger Myerson's famous paper on auctions.
My 1982 paper had earlier been rejected by the JPE,with a letter from the editor, George Stigler, saying that the only economics in the paper was in the title.
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“at the intersection of algorithm design, economics, machine learning, and operations research. “
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Management consulting seems like a natural use-case for large language models.
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The relatively speedy publication in medical journals can be a treat compared to the more ‘stately’ progress of papers in economics journals.
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Married doctors face obstacles in France
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NYT: "the loosening of marijuana policies — especially the decision to legalize pot without adequately regulating it — has led to worse outcomes than many Americans expected. It is time to acknowledge reality and change course."
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Pain experienced while dying may be partly spiritual.
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Robots aren't yet able to replace people: e.g. self-driving taxis aren't equipped to close a door left open by a departing passenger. So artificial agents need a task rabbit to recruit able-bodied (or at least embodied) workers.
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The CWA seems like a good choice among labor unions.
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Joseph Halpern was an early explorer of the interface between computer science and game theory.
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“The combination of unblockable satellite communications, cheap spectrum networks and accurate GPS targeting means the only way to fight will be through drone vs drone combat.”
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Publishers are still allergic to LLMs
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Both computational and experimental
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Governments can still get pushback
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Getting a book out involves some tedium (e.g. trying to proofread the index) as well as many small excitements
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Like everything else in life, blurbs have editors, so not everything you write gets published.
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“Higher caffeinated coffee intake was associated with more favorable cognitive outcomes. "
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Last chance to present a paper at this Econ-CS conference
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“Let me end with what may be Kahneman’s most important legacy: his willingness to engage in what he called “adversarial collaboration”.
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we admit grad students based on their ability to learn existing knowledge, but recommend them based on their ability to create new knowledge. we can’t predict how a person will be as a researcher based only on their undergrad record
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Are there some tasks that it would be immoral to delegate to machines?
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I now know what blurbs will be on the back cover of Moral Economics. They are by Peter Singer, Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo, Claudia Goldin, and Paul Milgrom & Bob Wilson, all people whose work I admire more than I can say.
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