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No industry is perfect. But the imbalance is hard to miss. One sector must prove its products are safe & effective. The other profits by avoiding that responsibility. If we care about transparency and accountability, scrutiny shouldn’t be one-sided. (Source: For The Greater Glory of Science) #EpiSky

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Not this again

'however, standard culture methods did not yield readily cultivable microbiota.'

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lads i found ANOTHER Table of Impossible Summary Statistics in a "green economics" paper 🚩

Can you see the problem?

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I've never been a fan of group work as a teacher or learner, but now I feel it's even trickier to manage as people have different interest in use of genAI to do assignments. It's a whole other thing that should in principle be negotiated, but how to manage this practically, and at what cost?

AI’s Modest Productivity Boost 3 years into widespread adoption, AI has delivered a ~0.4% productivity growth bump, putting it on pace with PC-scale lift at best (in ~1/2 the time) rather than radically reshaping the macroeconomy.

Just the blurb from this week's blog app piece penciling out the AI impact on productivity generated a robust discussion, so figured I'd make it my freebie of the week:

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The COVID inquiry conclusion that lockdown could have been avoided – and subsequent headlines – seems to have been based on a single opinion…

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? Toward an Understanding of Fade-out in Early Childhood Education Programs John A. List & Haruka Uchida X LinkedIn Facebook Bluesky Threads Email Link Working Paper 33027 DOI 10.3386/w33027 Issue Date October 2024 An unsettling stylized fact is that decorated early childhood education programs improve cognitive skills in the short-term, but lose their efficacy after a few years. We implement a field experiment with two stages of randomization to explore the underpinnings of the fade-out effect. We first randomly assign preschool access to children, and then partner with the local school district to randomly assign the same children to classmates throughout elementary school. We find that the fade-out effect is critically-linked to the share of classroom peers assigned to preschool access—with enough treated peers the classic fade-out effect is muted. Our results highlight a paradoxical insight: while the fade-out effect has been viewed as a devastating critique of early childhood programs, our results highlight that fade-out is a key rationale for providing early education to all children. This is because human capital accumulation is inherently a social activity, leading early education programs to deliver their largest benefits at scale when everyone receives such programs.

"...the fade-out effect has been viewed as a devastating critique of early childhood programs, our results highlight that fade-out is a key rationale for providing early education to all... largest benefits at scale when everyone receives such programs"
#EconSky #PolicySky
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On Environmental Democracy and the Collisons’ “Abundance-Verse” Andrew Jackson 21 November 2025 I. Introduction A clamour of praise greeted John Collison’s “how to get Ireland moving” Op-Ed following its publication in the Irish Times on 25th October: the Irish…

I’ve written something on John Collison’s Op-Ed and environmental democracy

Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank

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Fair point. The effect of removing coffee from coffee drinkers is plausibly different from getting people to start drinking coffee.

So there you have it, twin study estimates were greatly inflated, and molecular data sets the record straight. I walk through possible counter-arguments, but ultimately the uncomfortable truth is that genes contribute to traits much less than we always thought.

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And this isn't dramatics. Elon literally used his power to gain access and destroy USAID which has surely resulted in many many preventable deaths.

What do you call social scientists who work in the business school? Widely respected.

Microsoft has open sourced the Zork trilogy of text games Microsoft announced today that the code for Zork, Zork II and Zork III will be made available open source under the MIT License.

Microsoft has open sourced the Zork trilogy of text games - Now future generations can all be eaten by a grue www.engadget.com/gaming/micro... #zork #infocom #retrogamer #retrogaming #retrocomputing

Worryingly, this is how a small number of insanely powerful humans actually think. They are a genuine threat to us all, and any reasonable political/economic system should prevent them from existing.

The language of the Constitution is as plain on this point as any constitutional language *could* be.

Lower courts already ruled unequivocally on this point and there is no need for SCOTUS to be debating this at all.

Presidents who do not like what the Constitution says can propose amending it.

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I hope all you bastards who welcomed the falling leaves and the crisp, fall air are happy now. You've brought naught but dark, cold misery.

lmao at the all-staff emails giving out about drunk students and christmas jumpers. I would reply-all to mock them, but I live by a code.

UComp: Automatic Univariate Time Series Modelling of many Kinds Comprehensive analysis and forecasting of univariate time series using automatic time series models of many kinds. Harvey AC (1989) &lt;<a href="https://doi.org/10.1017%2FCBO9781107049994" target="_top">doi:10.1017/CBO9781107049994</a>&gt;. Pedregal DJ and Young PC (2002) &lt;<a href="https://doi.org/10.1002%2F9780470996430" target="_top">doi:10.1002/9780470996430</a>&gt;. Durbin J and Koopman SJ (2012) &lt;<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093%2Facprof%3Aoso%2F9780199641178.001.0001" target="_top">doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199641178.001.0001</a>&gt;. Hyndman RJ, Koehler AB, Ord JK, and Snyder RD (2008) &lt;<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-540-71918-2" target="_top">doi:10.1007/978-3-540-71918-2</a>&gt;. Gómez V, Maravall A (2000) &lt;<a href="https://doi.org/10.1002%2F9781118032978" target="_top">doi:10.1002/9781118032978</a>&gt;. Pedregal DJ, Trapero JR and Holgado E (2024) &lt;<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.ijforecast.2023.09.004" target="_top">doi:10.1016/j.ijforecast.2023.09.004</a>&gt;.

New on CRAN: UComp (5.1.5). View at https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=UComp

ECDC recommends vaccinating without delay due to early flu circulation Influenza detections are increasing unusually early in European Union/European Economic Area countries (EU/EEA) compared to previous years, with a timing three to four weeks earlier than the two most ...

Irish winter modelling meetings have commenced and flu has indeed kicked off strongly. Got my flu jab last week at local pharmacy. No appointment needed and no charge.

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INCREDIBLE CURVES

This is real x.com/grok/status/.... Yangtze record swim times but in LLM form

If I didn't know better, I'd say Grok was taking the piss here for sure.

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Researchers @ucc.ie have been awarded funding for five interdisciplinary projects in the @researchireland.ie COALESCE Programme 2025, making @ucc.ie the highest performing institute in the programme.

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