Patrick

No ring

The @aleague.bsky.social expansion is bigger that I thought

not surprised by this

Digital Distractions with Peer Influence: The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes* Abstract. Concerns about excessive mobile phone use among youth are mounting. We present estimates of both behavioral and contextual peer effects, along wi

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Digital Distractions with Peer Influence: The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes,” by Barwick, Chen, Fu, and Li: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Retros really valuable IMO, sauna better ofc, but also they're better than most things.

they really need to learn something from nordic endurance athletes' training programs

The only definitions of AGI that matters is the one that comes from the Deutsches Institut für Normung

www.agidefinition.ai

goodhart's law will eat your life

With LLMs, execution is now cheap and ideas are expensive again. We are so back

German Reunification Day invites both gratitude and reflection.
Gratitude, because the peaceful revolution of 1989 was nothing short of a miracle — a bloodless dismantling of a repressive regime.
Reflection, because the wounds of the transition still mark the country —and because

Welcome back, it’s great to have you hear

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It was fun (painful 😅) to implement VAR(p) models from scratch juanitorduz.github.io/var_numpyro/

Oh nice!

You know it’s Friedrichshain because the Italians are in Neukölln

Interesting! I have been slowly restocking my collection of band t shirts.

I am deep into CDs again. They sound so good

Today in AI and the labour market www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

The good thing about the CD player is that I can hide it from the toddler, unlike the turntable below.

Snaffled a live Talk Talk record, new Swans, old grinderman and some Steely Dan today.

It can solve organisational problems, like when everyone wants clusters

We are so back

It’s a real shame that writers are too cowardly to touch fatherhood. I’d buy the shit out of those books.

Anyone is says modern culture is garbage really isn’t looking hard enough or is open enough. It’s a golden age. So much good shit out there. (Particularly Sydney bands)

🙏🏻🙏🏻

Ah, ok. Seems as tho I have been making the TL argument (target the slope at the decision not the whole curve) at work all week.

Long weekend cycling in the alps ✅
Work tasks ✅
Break from family responsibilities ✅
Evening ICE from Berlin to Munich ✅
Beer ✅
Sun seeking ✅
Window seat ✅
Ready to tune out and listen to some shoegaze ✅

I open my AirPods case and the pods are at home

NGMI. Needs AI agents.

He loves us and wants us to be happy

Turns out we’ve lost the ability to make them any smaller, like they used to be. Same as with portable tape decks.