#Papers

Why Boris Johnson's "moonshot" plan may not be a great idea.A brief thread... So our beloved PM has a vision of a "moonshot"; carrying out 10 million rapid COVID-19 tests
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Two sort of contradictory thoughts on the one vs two dose argument, with the obvious caveat that I know very little about vaccines, but still based on some of my
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Today I have stepped down from the editorial board of Memory. This is simply due to not having enough time to really make a go of it. Here’s a thread
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New paper about state and local government finances in the pandemic w @erikloulou Main findings-State and local govs more dependent on sales tax laid off more employees -The $150 billion
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LOVE this paper (https://www.nber.org/papers/w28061 ) by @jamesfeigenbaum & Dan Gross. How does automation impact jobs? F&G study when telephone operators were replaced by mechanical switches. This was BIG: # of phone
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A roundup of some of tomorrow’s historic front pages after a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol (thread) 1/ 'Insurrection' was the hammer headline of the day 2/ 3/ foreign
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yes, algorithms carry values and those values can promote ignorance, intolerance, and, harm. consider a supervised learning algorithm where instances are people. if using empirical risk minimization, errors for individuals
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A lot of talk of risk on overheating if we do 1.9T relief bill (e.g. @LHSummers @ojblanchard1 ). Of course there’s a risk of anything. Question is balance of risks
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1/3 Sharing our @IOM_GMDAC @UNmigration experiences from exploring Google and Facebook data for #migration #forecasting over recent months: A tale of high policy expectations, promising results....BUT...a long road ahead for
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1/ Some random thoughts on the reflexive impacts of commoditization of access in finance…In other words, “what happens when we make something easy to invest in?" 2/ In 1991, Goldman
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Since everyone seems to have lost their damn minds over the "more tweets = more citations" paper, and I'm moderately qualified to talk about it, I thought I'd share a
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On the importance of writing for for computer-type-people:1. It's learnable.2. The goal is to make whatever you're writing about look obvious.3. This is a problem if your goal is to
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Did Covid-19 matter for the 2020 election? Well, maybe not! A simple scatterplot by our friends at NPR shows no real relationship (although they want to make it look positive)
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A thread about academia and blockchain voting.While reading up on recent literature regarding online voting, I came across this piece from Sang-Oun Lee, IT Specialist from Chicago, that was evaluating
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This week, I had an interaction with someone that got me thinking (again) about a few things: consumer fraud, the role of emotion therein, and the hard work of being
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I find it really difficult to read an academic paper from cover to cover in one go. Online or in print, even for a subject I’m fascinated by and passionate
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