Peter Williams

@pd-williams.bsky.social

280 followers 170 following 79 posts

Climbing, skiing, rates’ musing economist

Peter Williams was a prominent leader of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism in the eighteenth century, best known for publishing Welsh-language bibles and bible commentary.

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Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · 1d

Rational brain: “early snow often sets up dangerous backcountry conditions all winter”

November skier brain: “I got a fever and the solution is more powder”

Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 2d

Then, by late week, pronounced ridge-trough pattern over continental U.S. will shift eastward & partially break down--likely opening the "storm door" along the West coast. A pretty wet period is likely thereafter, with moderate to even heavy rain extending all the way into SoCal.

Snapshot of mid-late Nov 500mg GPH anomalies from ECMWF ensemble over North America. It depicts a very strong Greenland ridge persisting at least until late Nov, with a persistent trough along the West Coast once this week's ridge dissipates.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 2d

Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · 7d

Totally fair. I just feel like I’ve seen some people saying to ignore it not “we haven’t really learned anything since 10/1”

Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · 7d

I mean we know where it stood at end-Sept with two months of pretty complete data for the quarter’s inputs. The minimal changes since then not really telling us much new either way.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 10d

Also, maybe we come up with, like, two more holidays, say in the early and late spring, that involve walking around the neighborhood and talking to your neighbors?

Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · 19d

IME, it’s simply too much material to cram in the ‘in one ear right out the other’ way a shorter single topic exam allows for. You still study like mad but there’s a reason revision periods are 2-6 weeks not a few days.

Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · 19d

The UK approach I experienced of modest weight placed on work done across the year (essays, short quizzes, etc) with vast majority placed on a single end of year encompassing exam seems much more robust to AI challenges. Always thought by preventing cramming it was better anyway.

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Patrick Dunleavy, Peter Williams , and 3 more Peter Thorne, Patrick Dunleavy, Peter Williams, Andréas Nilsson, Greg Linden, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 28d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · Oct 10

Cash never lived in greater NYC therefor…

Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · Oct 2

In recent years yes

Haven’t had an electric setup since I first moved to DC 10+ years ago but happiness would be an ES-330 into a Fender

Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · Oct 2

Also that video makes me want to get a 000-style quite badly

Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · Oct 2

I was thinking this more than radio country (agreed on how formulaic it is)

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Colter Wall - 1800 Miles (Live Performance Video)

YouTube video by ColterWallVEVO

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Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · Oct 2

The moment begs for a garage band punk (and country?) resurgence

Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · Sep 30

Best of lucky buddy! Am sure you’ll crush it

Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · Sep 30

In fairness 90% of my exercise happens with running shoes or skis on so I very much am too

Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · Sep 30

I don’t see the words “deadlifting” or “carrying heavy crap a long way” anywhere in there. What gives?!??

Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · Sep 28

I feel like having that thought suggests the personality type for whom it likely is irrelevant

Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · Sep 27

This looks absolutely amazing Preston! Heck of trip and route. I have little urge to get into most forms of biking but then I see some awesome bikepacking like this and wonder…

Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · Sep 25

I see that and raise you ‘the chipotle by the Verizon center on a busy night’

Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · Sep 24

We live in a small boom town so big caver but within 1 mile radius of my house there are ~150 SF and a ton of multifam in various phases of construction

Reposted by Joe R. Feagin, Brendan Nyhan, Peter Williams , and 6 more Joe R. Feagin, Brendan Nyhan, Peter Williams, Robert C. Richards, R. M. Wilson, Aaron Sojourner, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Kevin Grant

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · Sep 24

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”

Philanthropies Strike a Promising Deal to Turn Back H.I.V.

www.nytimes.com

Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · Sep 22

Oh so sorry buddy! I live in knee-related anxiety all fall for ski season’s sake

Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · Sep 22

I think most consider that a completely separate thing

“Structurally we’ve been screwed by (low rates leading to) expensive down payments, now we’re wrecked by the mortgage and the down payment. Job prospects only make that worse not better”

Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · Sep 22

www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

Educated Americans Paved the Way for Divorce—Then Embraced Marriage

The countercultural revolution of the 1960s and ’70s didn’t get rid of the institution of marriage. It transformed it along class lines.

www.theatlantic.com

Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · Sep 22

I feel like the Atlantic has done some good writing on this, which is both my cultural prior and one that ties nicely into the story in a way

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The New Divide in American Marriage

College graduates are marrying at high rates. Everyone else isn’t.

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Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · Sep 22

Well the answer for a huge swath of the people who are currently most animated on this subject is “I was in college and/or 26”

Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · Sep 22

And it ties into other trends many people inclined to boost this consider negative such as later marriage, the skewed likelihood of marriage by edu & income, and the gap between fertility rates across married vs not couples

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