INBOX ZERO. Don't any of you jerks email me. Oh, and happy new year.

Things got busy again and I didn't have time to do the puzzles the last few days, but I'm back!

#AdventOfCode #RStats

Coming from a not-computer-sciency background, the Advent of Code is a fun challenge. I don't ever have time to complete the whole thing, but I'm keeping up with 2024 so far. And since most of my work is in #RStats so is my Advent of Code :-)

#AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/2

If you're planning Spring classes and Technical Debt would be relevant, my case on the Southwest Airlines meltdown is now available from Harvard Business Publishing.

hbsp.harvard.edu/product/W365...

Distracting myself by fiddling with something neat...using Expected Parrot's edsl library in-stream in an R data analysis to pass data to ChatGPT (in this case for classification) and then merging the answers back into R (w/ the reticulate package in RStudio).

@johnjhorton.bsky.social

I'll be talking about my paper "Covid-19 is (Probably) Not an Exogenous Shock or Valid Instrument" at Oslo Met's Pandemics and Society Seminar today via Zoom at 1600 CET/1100 US Eastern/1000 US Central.

Minimal math, I'll make my argument with vibes.

uni.oslomet.no/pansoc/2024/...

#EconSky

Chicago, you’re perfect.

The amount of time I spent coming up with a fake company and scenario for my midterm was totally appropriate, yes a very good and reasonable use of time.

Pretty dope (AI generated) logo though.

Don't make me tap the sign...

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Pretty jazzed that I (along with lots of other contributors) got an email about this reproducibility study being accepted at Management Science…a great holiday present!

osf.io/mydzv/

The other site has become convinced that I am a horse aficionado which is a) a totally fine thing to be but b) not me. The quantity of horse-themed ads in my feed is entertaining. Also, their algorithm is so borked at this point.

Pretty jazzed about this graph, both for the story it tells and the aesthetics.

Finally got my PhD completion gift to myself. Pretty jazzed about it.

I also think today's smashing pumpkins are pretty sorry. The Mellon Collie -> Adore -> Machina era will never be topped.

Sure would be nice if people would stop breaking in to my car (4x since 2021), garage (2x since 2021) and house (1x, while we were home). I'd love that.

The one good thing is the entertainment value associated with the random things you can report stolen on the Minneapolis city website.

Found this mint condition (in original packaging) collectible in our department cluster.

#EconSky
#InformationSystemsBlueSky