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Senior Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research NYC. Economics and Computation Group. Distinguished Scholar at Wharton.
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The hotel industry is trying so hard to make a washcloth user out of me

My 11 yo daughter: Everything has a Wikipedia page. Even the word 'everything' has a Wikipedia page. Checks out!

I hit airplane mode on my phone and it flew out the window :(

I'm super happy with this video from Communications of the ACM on our paper about LLM use in crowd work. Our work will be the cover paper of CACM in March. cacm.acm.org/research/pre... Cc: @veniamin.bsky.social @andrewgordon.bsky.social

Micro sabbaticals for early career faculty at Princeton Psych

Jake Hofman @jakehofman.bsky.social and I have a long running research project about putting numbers into perspective (e.g. comparing to the population of a large state like New Jersey or the US) so that you can spot errors. Here's a fine example of that!

Okay I’m using this in class. Teaching interactions to undergrads rn 😆

Don't hate the player, don't hate the game, hate the significant player:game interaction

Someone should make an app that deletes mobile phones from photos and then there would be all these pictures of people looking at their hands

Dutch people: 's Hertogenbosch isn't confusing enough as a city name so let us refer to it as "Den Bosch" with an unknown probability

I don't know about this math. I would have thought that coffee plus donut equals wet donut.

Computer scientists on deadline interact with a publishing system called TAPS and after taps they go to bed

Unleash the excitement

It's totally normal that I do surgery on pizza boxes to make them fit in the fridge, right? right?

rules are rules and tautologies are tautologies

"Enough with the triangles already!": Pythagoras refuses lectures, interviews about "that one theorem"

Reading a highly-cited paper that says "Over 300 years have elapsed since the first vaccine was discovered." But it's actually been 229 years. 2025-1796=229

I was told there would be checks and balances

The CHI Human-Centered Explainable AI Workshop is back! Paper submissions: Feb 20 hcxai.jimdosite.com

Summer Institute in Bounded Rationality, Berlin, 2025 www.decisionsciencenews.com?p=7210

s1: The $6 R1 Competitor? This isn't a R1 replication, it's a brilliant breakthrough in data reduction, and just plain dumb engineering ingenuity. I considered not writing this up, but I don't think it's obvious why it's so important. Enjoy! timkellogg.me/blog/2025/02...

All the world's stock markets are down except one Oh wait that's not a stock market, that's the volatility index

My daughter drew a dog on my workshop wall

Now out in PNAS, we provide a conceptual framework for assessing replication decisions and replication reform. Do you view the scientific literature as a "book of truths" or a "book of conversations"? www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #philsci #science #SciSci #Metascience