Ross Mattheis
@rmattheis.bsky.social
Economist + cat dad. Opinions my own.
Personal site: https://ramattheis.github.io
Personal site: https://ramattheis.github.io
Gods of the Upper Air by Charles King! a.co/d/fbbUrTa
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
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August 25, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Gods of the Upper Air by Charles King! a.co/d/fbbUrTa
I've found that it often fails / refuses to read the contents of PDFs, especially for longer papers. If there were a way to force the model to ingest the full text, maybe it would be better at summarization?
August 20, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I've found that it often fails / refuses to read the contents of PDFs, especially for longer papers. If there were a way to force the model to ingest the full text, maybe it would be better at summarization?
😅 I think about it as training wheels for human children
August 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
😅 I think about it as training wheels for human children
Replying to posts on bluesky because that's apparently when my cats want breakfast
August 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Replying to posts on bluesky because that's apparently when my cats want breakfast
My intuition is that additional differences would slightly hurt if the DD is approximately valid. In that case, triple difference is an unbiased estimator + extra noise. I can imagine it would help if you were doing Jon + Ashesh's honest inference and the triple dif had better pretends
August 12, 2025 at 10:58 AM
My intuition is that additional differences would slightly hurt if the DD is approximately valid. In that case, triple difference is an unbiased estimator + extra noise. I can imagine it would help if you were doing Jon + Ashesh's honest inference and the triple dif had better pretends
I'm currently at some combination of (1) ask other questions, (2) choose more restrictive models, (3) tolerate more uncertainty bc, as you say, what else can we do?
August 12, 2025 at 6:25 AM
I'm currently at some combination of (1) ask other questions, (2) choose more restrictive models, (3) tolerate more uncertainty bc, as you say, what else can we do?
That whole interview was shockingly ahistorical
August 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
That whole interview was shockingly ahistorical
Idk, definitely not a clean instrument
July 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Idk, definitely not a clean instrument
It also seems like we just threw in the towel, so 🤷♀️
June 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
It also seems like we just threw in the towel, so 🤷♀️
Pretty sure Newton requires the number of units in new development to be prime 🤷♀️
June 12, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Pretty sure Newton requires the number of units in new development to be prime 🤷♀️
Do you know if there's easily accessible data?
June 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Do you know if there's easily accessible data?
A big chunk of total wages is overtime:
June 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
A big chunk of total wages is overtime:
So better than the median report?
June 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
So better than the median report?