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grrrimarobot.bsky.social
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We've significantly updated our paper on modeling + measuring systemic discrimination! Check it out: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ab5yx... (cc @aleximas.bsky.social + @aislinnbohren.bsky.social!) A short 🧵 on what's new...

submitted 131 days ago • 9 comments

The slides of my NeurIPS lecture "From Diffusion Models to Schrödinger Bridges - Generative Modeling meets Optimal Transport" can be found here drive.google.com/file/d/1eLa3...

submitted 131 days ago • 9 comments

Honestly the rise of tipping is like the worst thing possible to happen to the economy. Tipping is easily the worst economic system, as it redistributes money from generous people (who tip) to ungenerous people (who do not). I have no idea how we got here

submitted 141 days ago • 5 comments

In terms of mobility, e-bikes are selling faster & having bigger effects on emissions than EVs, much less self-driving EVs. And yet they get vastly, vastly less attention. www.fastcompany.com/90994141/why...

submitted 142 days ago • 25 comments

These sorts of stats always get attributed to feminism or critical race theory or whatever when the temporal proximity suggests the primary cause is 40+ years of Reaganism ruining communities and siphoning prosperity away from the masses.

submitted 144 days ago • 69 comments

NEW: Why do we always think crime is rising, even when it isn’t? This week I looked at one of the big data mysteries. Britain is 2/3 less violent than the 1990s; thefts were higher pre-lockdown Why, then, doesn’t it feel like it? 1/8 @thetimes.com 🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/b63d...

submitted 145 days ago • 197 comments

Human induced climate change trends have been a significant contributor to this www.fwi.co.uk/arable/harve...

submitted 144 days ago • 0 comments

The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil 4x more than electric cars due to their staggering uptake in China and elsewhere.

submitted 145 days ago • 49 comments

How outrage drives the spread of online misinformation. New work from @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social with Bluesky luminaries @klonick.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, @williambrady.bsky.social and colleagues. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl2829

submitted 147 days ago • 9 comments

"'Waifu' had been bragging about his criminal exploits in open groups on Telegram. But when he threatened Allison Nixon, the chief research officer at the U.S. cybersecurity firm Unit221B, his days were numbered."

submitted 146 days ago • 9 comments

This is the kind of paradox I live for

submitted 147 days ago • 20 comments

"The analysis suggests dengue cases will continue to skyrocket as Earth's climate continues to warm. By the middle of the century, the number of cases could rise by 60% as more parts of the world enter the mosquito-friendly temperature zone."

submitted 146 days ago • 9 comments

I’m super excited to announce I'm part of an amazing team (<3 @williambrady.bsky.social @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social @mjcrockett.bsky.social) that just published a paper in @science.org on the role of outrage in spread of misinformation Link here: science.org/doi/10.1126/... Summary in🧵🔽 1/

submitted 147 days ago • 129 comments

Hm, interesting game. I dunno if I'll get through 20 but let's see. #1

submitted 149 days ago • 1 comment

This is a story a lot of reporters have been chasing: Starting in 2015, a massive cyberespionage campaign targeted some of America's most prominent environmentalists. Now, we can reveal that the FBI has been probing whether a longtime Exxon lobbyist was involved. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

submitted 149 days ago • 34 comments

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

submitted 150 days ago • 732 comments

Just yesterday, CBO released a working paper showing that enrolling kids in Medicaid half pays for itself mostly due to those kids ending up with higher earnings. And CBO said that, if you offset the costs, the net present value of future deficits is reduced by $2 for every $1 spent.

submitted 539 days ago • 16 comments

whoa pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/art...

submitted 544 days ago • 6 comments