@adegendre
Economist @ University of Melbourne @unimelb.bsky.social 🇦🇺 / soon @cnrs.fr @crestumr.bsky.social 🇫🇷 • Interested in Ed, health, Social Security • excited about metascience (generalizability, replication, science policy) https://adegendre.github.io
Effrayant et à écouter absolument - 3 podcasts de 20 min chacun sur la domination des GAFAM et la violation de la souveraineté nationale européenne
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🔗 www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
Am reading « Why we sleep » by the brilliant @sleepdiplomat.bsky.social and loving it! Highly highly recommend!
Will dive into the podcast next!
"genAI" doens't "learn" (tech execs' term) since it has no brains. Instead, it stores and regurgitates - PLAGIARISM....
"many AI developers use a more technically accurate term when talking about these models: lossy compression."
What I’d like to know @nytimes.com is how to boycott these companies.
Effectually i would to see a table of the services or products made by these sometimes obscure companies, so we can prefer competitors with values we can get behind.
Disgraceful.
Read this if you don’t see the legal issues with or wonder about the legality of US actions in Venezuela
Can’t believe European leaders are discussing legality of US invasion of Venezuela.
A summary of US actions in Venezuela:
Kidnapping a citizen in their own country
Expropriating their natural resources
Seizing power until somebody deemed adequate is found.
Who is next: Canada, Greenland?
Places Trump has said he wants to take over:
Gaza
Venezuela
Mexico
Canada
Panama Canal
Greenland
U.S. blue cities
& said he kept troops in Syria to "keep the oil."
www.politico.com/news/2019/11...
& said in 2016 that taking Iraq oil wouldn't be stealing. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016...
That is called corruption. Let’s call things what they are.
Good to know for people who use LLMs for their R code
Myth busting in action ! @joshua-goodman.com & Joseph Winkelman wrote a great paper on trends in US college enrollments and debunk the narrative we’ve been seeing everywhere about students massively leaving higher education
— please journalists read this
🔗 docs.iza.org/dp18285.pdf
DENSHA OTOKO 😍😍😍😍 Instant throwback to my high school years 😍😍😍😍
A chilling reminder of the state of the Econ profession for women and the long road ahead towards what the profession should be
Yeaaaah! In a tiny festival in Maastricht (NL) a decade ago, he was playing « in his room », it was incredible :-)
Entshittification — today we’ve had it with Netflix. Now we can’t even use Chromecast.
This blogpost sums it up. « Netflix - like Airbnb, Uber, and the rest of the share economy from the 2010s - just isn't what it used to be anymore. »
www.whistleout.com.au/PayTV/News/w...
Totally!!
Check out the video from his BBC Proms 2015 concert and his 2024 concert at the Philharmonie de Paris, both are out of this world!! In the 2024 concert he uses a weird sort of glass instrument at the beginning, fascinating
Keep an eye on this JMC, fascinating work in Econ of education.
Also I can’t spell his name correctly 🙈😅
Saw him several times and every time is absolutely incredible!!
Introduce yourself in 5 shows you’ve seen
Neil Frahm
Olafur Arnalds
Jacob Collier
Bohren & der Club of Gore
Beirut
Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
Too little too late
CSWEP strongly condemns Larry Summers’ behavior as revealed in the email correspondence with the late Jeffrey Epstein. While abuse of power in the economics profession is not new, rarely has the intent behind such abuse been so clearly stated.
Very exciting JMP on teacher value added — beyond test scores and into socio-emotional value added.
🤮 disgusting on so many levels
À really interesting short study — based on a survey in the US, the public supports Unis championing initiatives (environmental, DEI, free speech, …) beyond research & ed, but finds political engagement inappropriate. Women & liberals support DEI initiatives but men & conservatives do not.
« The era when American politics could make or break global climate co-operation is over. The world is no longer waiting for Washington. This time the global south is leading the way. » — a great piece by an architect of the Paris agreement @economist.com
economist.com/by-invitatio...
Yes I agree! Hallucinate makes it sound like LLMs think and make mistakes, but that’s not hat it is.
