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by huitzitziltzin 2y ago
“ The method requires repeated random assignment of managers to multiple teams and controls for individuals’ skills.” That’s an extremely extremely demanding condition very unlikely to be satisfied in practice, IMO. Even conditionally exo
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by huitzitziltzin 2y ago
I am skeptical of nearly all gen ai applications, including this one. However, if humans can hallucinate weapons of mass destruction in Iraq I guess we are no worse off than we are with the status quo.
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by huitzitziltzin 2y ago
No offense intended, but your comment reads a bit like a word salad of some economics concepts which you likely don’t fully understand. - “presumes that workers might never beat the prisoners dilemma” - that has nothing to do with demand cu
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by huitzitziltzin 2y ago
(Former) econ prof here (now in industry), though definitely not at Harvard. To be honest "draw a map of a rail yard" or "write up a waybill" does not seem like the kind of exam material college students should be enga
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by huitzitziltzin 2y ago
That is an outstanding book. I second the recommendation. I’ll even make a (sincere!) claim that I suspect will inspire a lot of angry attempts at rebuttals: The 20 foot shipping container has had a greater impact on the world than large
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by huitzitziltzin 2y ago
This is an accurate description of what my large R1 research university did after Covid to maintain enrollment. It’s a heavily tuition driven place without the tens of billions of endowment dollars an Ivy has. They “opened the floodgates”
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by huitzitziltzin 2y ago
The craziest part of this article is the phrase “may be” in the headline.
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by huitzitziltzin 2y ago
Seriously embarrassing for a major newspaper to take this at all seriously. What do you say to child who thinks he remembers a past life? You say “hey - that never happened don’t worry about it.” What a complete waste of time. And thi
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by huitzitziltzin 2y ago
You are correct and I’m happy to discount. The older of the two patients in the original example was under 50. That’s a lot of QALYs. Even at an implausibly high discount rate it makes sense. The outcomes reported in the article are sugg
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by huitzitziltzin 2y ago
Hello - it's your friendly neighborhood health economist (and I have worked on a topic adjacent to ECMO machines). ECMO is unambiguously cost effective (even at US prices!) for the infant. (I'm not defending US prices - needles
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
I thought this kind of small-sample, theory-free, tell-any-story-you-want statistical significance mining exercise was out of style! This study is like an unwelcome blast from the 2010's or earlier!
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
Details are pretty limited in the linked article, but what’s described does sound like a price fixing agreement. Doesn’t matter if it’s “family ranchers” or someone else - that’s illegal, as it should be.
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
$60 M for absolutely cutting edge dick joke generation in next gen LLMs. I question whether Reddit data is worth anything at all.
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
On a continent with one billion people, this service with 2.1 million subscribers has “zoomed past” Netflix which has 1.8… I don’t think either firm is contending for a throne from which one can be dethroned. Not with those numbers.
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
It should have been immediately obvious to everyone that this was a scam. Anyone who has a money printer by definition does not need your help. If you are being asked to invest there is risk. If you are being told it’s a sure thing you
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
This is the correct answer and would get the agreement of probably better than 95% of the profession. The suggestion above that JEL is a top five is bizarre. The CS equivalent is saying that the book “learn python in 21 days” is a top outl
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
This is complete nonsense. There are a ton of environmental economists. It’s an active and vigorous field. There are “environmental and X” people for many other economics subfields, e.g., macro, development, structural, etc. There are
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
More than a year into ChatGPT and… unemployment is at historic lows. I don’t remotely see the present generation of LLMs as being “labor replacing tools.” I’m aware of empirical work which shows them to be useful complements to human ju
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
Look, it sounds like the price of skiing has increased a lot and the market is not that competitive. (The relevant market from an antitrust perspective isn’t “ski resorts” though - “winter recreation” or “general outdoor recreation” are mu
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
This article simultaneously says “here are a bunch of things we claim happened” and then paragraphs later quotes experts who say they could not have or did not happen that way. Why is this valuable? I know as little as I did before read
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
I am not a lawyer and for all I know this could be “fair use”. I leave that to courts and legislators. This claim by OpenAI seems false though: “The company recently made … [an argument] to the UK House of Lords, claiming no AI system lik
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
Not at all!
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
Sure those are great textbooks. If you want the history of economic thought though you might be more interested in the people and times which led to the ideas in the book. You won’t get enough of that in mankiw. As to why the mankiw book
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
Why in the world would either of those ever be assigned in an economics class? Especially on the history of economic thought! Marx has had about 0 influence on modern economics. Sure he’s an influential figure in world history and should
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
This is not at all a serious syllabus on this topic. I cannot understand the inclusion of ChatGPT. If you want a nice, single-volume history try Roger backhouse’s “the ordinary business of life”, soon to come in a second edition. There is
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
The paper is total garbage but they do put gdp in the specification. No one should take this “result” remotely seriously though.
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
Dealt with him via TACC for a big simulation I did and was grateful enough for his help to buy a paper copy of the first volume in the series. Very interesting though a bit outside of my area. I will look at the others and encourage anyon
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
At the very least Tom Sargent and the New York Fed see it differently so you may by the odd man out. If you haven’t checked out the quant Econ project you are missing a great resource for exactly the problems you are working on.
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
How would you pay for the very expensive work of developing an entire operating system without a revenue stream…? This is such a weird take. Obviously they don’t do it as a charity.
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by huitzitziltzin 3y ago
It’s not clear to me the regulators understand what risks they are actually mitigating, if any.

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