CaltechEconTheory

Economics Puzzle Leads to a New Understanding of a Fundamental Law of Physics The research provides a deeper understanding of the Boltzmann distribution.

Popular science piece about a math paper with physics motivation by Caltech and Princeton economists.

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Incredibly excited to see this paper with @ccrismancox.bsky.social at @iojournal.bsky.social.
We study outbidding using new models, methods, and data from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. #polisky

@mgibilisco.bsky.social and I have a new paper out in @iojournal.bsky.social that we’re really excited about. Mike has a great 🧵on it!

Why Probability Probably Doesn’t Exist (but It’s Useful to Act like It Does) All of statistics and much of science depends on probability—an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is

Scientific American strikes again with a sophomoric ramble about probability. www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

when an editor tells a senior professor that not all his ideas are good enough for the best journal in the world

Pure curiosity!

Sorry! "Tal" means valley, not mountain.

Yes! Sorry.

Thanks a lot!

Absolutely serious! Thanks a lot.

Does anyone know where to find online Karl Marx's writing about derivatives?

very strange? why would you want to beat a mince pie it's already been minced

Without looking it up, which of the following is the ultimate origin of the word "dollar"?
1. The German word "Tal", meaning mountain, through "Thaler".
2. The Latin word "decem", meaning ten, through "dinar".
3. The Spanish word "dalar", meaning to give.

When French was still the lingua franca, were native French speakers more likely to be monolingual than others?

Did you mean to say there's already a native american Sridhar?

Wait until you hear about what happened to the universe in its early days.

A screenshot from the website announcing the VIG conference: https://www.math.ucla.edu/~ineeman/Conf/VIG2025/

There will be a Very Informal Gathering of Logicians (VIG 2025) at UCLA, Fri, Feb 7 to Sun, Feb 9, 2025.
The 22nd in a series of biennial logic meetings at UCLA, this event honors Alexander Kechris on the occasion of his formal retirement from Caltech.
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#MathSky

Wait till you hear Eminem's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

Cry on it.

A_n says to S_n when asked if it has any conjugates

Odds on Andrew Tate for secretary of education?

Pleasure

The measurement of the distance to the sun using the transit of Venus (Lalande, 1769).

Careful what you wish for.

It's actually super simple. You just take the supremum over all simple functions dominated by the function you are trying to integrate.

Therefore if the moon is not gorgeous now then no one else is up in Sydney.

Advisee: [Going on the job market] Sometimes I feel like it's all a game. Our papers and talks are just sophistry, detached from the world.

Advisor: [Shedding tears] I am so proud. You are finally ready to be a professor.

What do the scatologists think?