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Economist + cat dad. Opinions my own. Personal site: https://ramattheis.github.io

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Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century [King, Charles] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century

Gods of the Upper Air by Charles King! a.co/d/fbbUrTa

25.08.2025 06:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I've found that it often fails / refuses to read the contents of PDFs, especially for longer papers. If there were a way to force the model to ingest the full text, maybe it would be better at summarization?

20.08.2025 02:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

😅 I think about it as training wheels for human children

12.08.2025 13:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Replying to posts on bluesky because that's apparently when my cats want breakfast

12.08.2025 13:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My intuition is that additional differences would slightly hurt if the DD is approximately valid. In that case, triple difference is an unbiased estimator + extra noise. I can imagine it would help if you were doing Jon + Ashesh's honest inference and the triple dif had better pretends

12.08.2025 10:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm currently at some combination of (1) ask other questions, (2) choose more restrictive models, (3) tolerate more uncertainty bc, as you say, what else can we do?

12.08.2025 06:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

That whole interview was shockingly ahistorical

09.08.2025 22:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Idk, definitely not a clean instrument

08.07.2025 00:32 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It also seems like we just threw in the towel, so 🤷‍♀️

24.06.2025 13:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pretty sure Newton requires the number of units in new development to be prime 🤷‍♀️

12.06.2025 00:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Do you know if there's easily accessible data?

05.06.2025 03:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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A big chunk of total wages is overtime:

05.06.2025 02:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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While looking for a job last year, I neglected to consider being a police officer in in the Bay Area (where wages are competitive w/ PhD econ positions) 😶 publicpay.ca.gov/Reports/RawE...

05.06.2025 02:44 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

So better than the median report?

02.06.2025 19:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0