Paul Bose
pbose.bsky.social
Paul Bose
@pbose.bsky.social
Postdoc at University of Rome Tor Vergata. Interested in Applied Microeconomics with a focus on Political Economy.

http://www.paulbose.com/
At the time I was using both inline completions and the chat function (at least the inline chat, not the agent capabilities, which didn't exist yet).
July 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Interesting, thanks for sharing. I didn't know about this. Tbh I mostly did this exercise to test out the gender and region prediction package. But thought the results might be interesting. Nice to know that there is a resource directly from RePEc.
July 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Check out my blog post for a detailed explanation of my methodology and findings: www.paulbose.com/thisandthat/...
July 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I used the "nametrace" package (github.com/parobo/namet...) to predict gender and region of origin based on author names rather than checking each author's actual gender or background. Therefore, take the results with a grain of salt.
GitHub - parobo/nametrace: A python package to predict demographic information from names.
A python package to predict demographic information from names. - parobo/nametrace
github.com
July 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The rise in female representation in the top 5% appears to be a global phenomenon, with increases observed in both North America/Europe and the "rest of the world." The trend is slightly stronger in North America and Europe, but these regions also had more ground to cover in terms of catching up.
July 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The growth for regions other than US/Canada/Europe is primarily driven by scholars from Eastern Asia, Southern Asia and South America. Unfortunately, Africa remains extremely underrepresented.
July 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
While these numbers are super low, there's a small of positive change, ... a slow one.
- The share of women has edged up from roughly 9% to 12% over the past 12 years. Progress, but the pace is too slow!
- Representation from "the rest of the world" has increased from 16% to 25% in 2025.
July 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
June 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Our results suggest that refugee influx caused a sharp but short lived spike in salience of refugees. People who remained active tweeters on the topic started to show more opposition of refugees after a while however.
We combine the analysis with extremely local voting data and find similar results.
May 27, 2025 at 9:22 AM
May 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
As an example I show how to analyze the sentiment of the last 100 posts of the reddit CEOs spez and kn0thing in mere seconds.
May 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
BONUS: use ollama to interact with the models from python and receive structured responses. This is super helpful for classification or structured outputs for e.g. Text summary.
February 26, 2025 at 10:15 AM
FYi, in case you might care, here is an explanation how the models moderate internally (i.e. without using the API, but using system prompts).
www.lesswrong.com/posts/jGuXSZ...
Refusal in LLMs is mediated by a single direction — LessWrong
This work was produced as part of Neel Nanda's stream in the ML Alignment & Theory Scholars Program - Winter 2023-24 Cohort, with co-supervision from…
www.lesswrong.com
February 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I seems the abliterated versions are not censored but the the base model seems to be:
bsky.app/profile/paul...
Abliterated model has no censorship issues on this one at least!!
January 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Interesting point, your screenshots do somewhat indicate hard coded instructions in the model, but it could still be only on the API version. Would like to see this for the local model.
January 28, 2025 at 12:29 PM