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donskerclass.bsky.social
Econometrics, Statistics, Computational Economics, etc 🏳️‍⚧️ http://donskerclass.github.io
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To my economist friends exploring new meditation practices: Try log-linearizing a large system—nothing like simplifying nonlinear chaos to find inner peace.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

New blog post: How chaotic is chaos? How some AI for Science / SciML papers are overstating accuracy claims. www.stochasticlifestyle.com/how-chaotic-... #julialang #sciml #chaos #ergodic #ai4science

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Casey Corgi Childers September 28, 2010-May 23, 2025 He was a very good boy.

submitted 34 days ago • 8 comments

Harron Walker's new book is, unsurprisingly, very good. On women, journalism, and "women's journalism." www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Congratulations to Grace Wahba for winning the 2025 International Prize in Statistics, in recognition of her ground-breaking work on smoothing splines, which has transformed modern data analysis and machine learning 👏👏👏 Read more: rss.org.uk/news-publica...

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

As the semester winds down I have a gap before student final papers come in in which to read general interest economics. Anyway, Suresh Naidu, Winston Chen, & @treballen.bsky.social have fascinating work in progress on a quantitative GE spatial model of US slavery. dl.dropbox.com/s/uvhbdrqr88...

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Explaining the Kitagawa-Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition to a student: "Now, the goal here is descriptive. Labor economists are not interested in the causal effect of an experiment randomly assigning gender... Well, I'm interested in running that experiment, but most economists aren't."

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Post: On Feral Library Card Catalogs, or, Aware of All Internet Traditions bactra.org/weblog/feral...

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Went to look up textbook results after getting the nagging feeling that an ML paper was reinventing classical ideas, and found this gem: "Not reading to the end of Le Cam's papers became not uncommon in later years. His ideas have been regularly rediscovered." At least they're in good company.

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment