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After a long wait, the working paper for the Many-Economists Project: The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics. We had 146 teams perform the same research three times, each time with less freedom. What source of freedom leads to different choices and results? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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In New York? Love Bluesky? 🦋 Come hang with the Graze Social crew and a herd of your fellow Bluesky and AT Proto lovers this Friday, February 28th. Space is limited, and we don't want to leave anyone thirsty -- please RSVP. We're excited to meet y'all in person! smokesignal.events/did:plc:i6y3...

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Bonus update! Choropleths are still visually distorted and overrepresent land, so we can instead use points that are sized by population. I added an example at the end to show one way to do this with {sf}'s magical st_centroid() #rstats www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...

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Congrats and very well deserved!!

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wow I do not like those Reddit lines

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Our new piece in Nature Machine Intelligence: LLMs are replacing human participants, but can they simulate diverse respondents? Surveys use representative sampling for a reason, and our work shows how LLM training prevents accurate simulation of different human identities.

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PhD students in social sciences studying "metascience" and AI: This looks like an AMAZING opportunity. Fully funded research postdoc that can be housed at whatever university you can find an appropriate mentor. sloan.org/programs/dig...

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Very excited to announce the launch of “AI Safety and the Global Majority,” the new project I’m leading at @brookings.edu. Our writing series kicks off with my new research commentary, "Re-envisioning AI Safety Through Global Majority Perspectives”: www.brookings.edu/articles/a-n...

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Here's why your education friends had a real rough one today. It's... it's the entire education data collection apparatus of the United States. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

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I'm teaching Engineering Societal Systems this semester, on ML, market design, optimization in government, education, and other high-stakes contexts. A great reminder that responsible building and critique both require care and hard work. Paper list: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Are you interested in public interest tech or #opendata in New York City, check out @beta.nyc's weekly newsletter. Fresh newsletter just dropped. beta.nyc/2025/01/30/w...

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Postdoctoral position at @cornelluniversity.bsky.social, "from all areas of research that advance the state of the art in data science and the health sciences, extending the reach of data-driven research into novel medical application domains" Happy to chat! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29529

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Congrats to well-deserved 2024 ACM fellows @michal-feldman.bsky.social, Ashish Goel, and Stefani Leonardi for their contributions to EconCS! #ECsky

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🧵on the CFPB and less discriminatory algorithms. last week, in its supervisory highlights, the Bureau offered a range of impressive new details on how financial institutions should be searching for less discriminatory algorithms.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Seems very interesting!

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Congestion Relief Zone tolling has been in effect for a week. Here's what the data says so far ⬇️

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This figure, from a recent report about data centers and energy, has been living rent free in my mind in recent weeks. Where will this extra energy come from? Will it be renewable? What kind of pressure will this demand put on existing energy grids and infrastructure? We need answers.

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"US sues six of the biggest landlords over 'algorithmic pricing schemes': Six landlords added to RealPage lawsuit; Cortland settles and will cooperate."

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'Before there was arXiv, there was Joanne Cohn (...) She started an informal exchange of string theory manuscripts that eventually became the arXiv preprint server, which has since revolutionized the way scientists share ideas and announce findings.' pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...

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Adam Smith, @gautamkamath.com, and I compiled this list of FORC Job Market Profiles---faculty candidates who work in the foundations of computing and society, broadly defined. There are 29 awesome candidates for you to check out! drive.google.com/file/d/1Hyvg...

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

If you want to be our neighbor at Cornell Tech, now you can: "The Bridge" (love this name) allows startup companies and other orgs to enjoy the peace and quiet of our campus (plus the proximity, of course), while staying one hop away from Manhattan. tech.cornell.edu/the-bridge-a...

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Researchers used AI to generate 288 complete academic finance papers predicting stock returns, complete with plausible theoretical frameworks & citations. Each paper looks and reads as legit. They did this to show how easy it now is to mass produce "credible" research. Academia isn't ready.

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Superstar team explaining real world experimentation

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Is it publicly known that Claude updates based on arXiv very quickly? I was using it on Thursday and it referenced a paper (correct title and author; incorrectly claimed 12/23 date) uploaded on Wednesday. Continued chatting and it got the correct arXiv id, so it doesn't seem like a lucky guess.

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Really nice paper from Manish!

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Thank you to many who provided valuable input on my monograph on minimalist market design. Here is a much revised and expanded version. It introduces a design framework that is useful for generating cutting-edge research with strong potential for policy impact. #EconSky arxiv.org/pdf/2401.00307 1/

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

Also check out Kenny's paper + poster on algorithmic monoculture in matching markets. We find that, with modeling market effects (e.g., applicants also have preferences over firms), intuitions about monoculture being bad for applicants become more nuanced. Link: arxiv.org/abs/2312.09841

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Go talk to Sophie about our Neurips paper! There is substantial interest now in "multi-sided" (e.g., users and producers) fairness in recommender systems. We ask: "what actually happens in systems that impose these constraints, i.e., when is there a large tradeoff and how do recs change?"

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🎺 Here comes the official 2024 NeurIPS paper browser: - browse all NeurIPS papers in a visual way - select clusters of interest and get cluster summary - ZOOOOM in - filter by human assigned keywords - filter by substring (authors, titles) neurips2024.vizhub.ai #neurips by IBM Research Cambridge

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ACLU Technology Team is hiring for a 1-year Algorithmic Justice Fellow to work on cutting edge digital rights projects – including algorithmic audits of deployed AI systems and developing novel tools for analyzing emerging AI policies. www.aclu.org/careers/appl... #jobs

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This seems fantastic! "The primary objective was to address current challenges and advance the ongoing discourse on the evaluation of recommender systems. The participants’ diverse backgrounds and perspectives on evaluation significantly contributed to the discourse on this subject."

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