Scott Kominers
@skominers.bsky.social
Market Design/Entrepreneurship Economist • Harvard
Research Partner • a16z crypto
Editor • Review of Economics and Statistics
Puzzle writer & NFT enthusiast, QED | http://scottkom.com/
Research Partner • a16z crypto
Editor • Review of Economics and Statistics
Puzzle writer & NFT enthusiast, QED | http://scottkom.com/
Happy Palindrome-Ambigram-Reflection Day, QED!!
I hope your day has been excellent in every possible direction 🙂🙃
I hope your day has been excellent in every possible direction 🙂🙃
May 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Happy Palindrome-Ambigram-Reflection Day, QED!!
I hope your day has been excellent in every possible direction 🙂🙃
I hope your day has been excellent in every possible direction 🙂🙃
Happy [PI / PurIm / EclPIse] Day!!
Hold some PIstachio hamantaschen up to the moon, QED 😄🤚📐🌑!
(And yes, of course, there's an NFT 👇)
Hold some PIstachio hamantaschen up to the moon, QED 😄🤚📐🌑!
(And yes, of course, there's an NFT 👇)
March 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Happy [PI / PurIm / EclPIse] Day!!
Hold some PIstachio hamantaschen up to the moon, QED 😄🤚📐🌑!
(And yes, of course, there's an NFT 👇)
Hold some PIstachio hamantaschen up to the moon, QED 😄🤚📐🌑!
(And yes, of course, there's an NFT 👇)
Should we be surprised that people who have positive publication trends during their postdocs are more likely to get faculty jobs? What could the counterfactual hypothesis have possibly been?
January 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Should we be surprised that people who have positive publication trends during their postdocs are more likely to get faculty jobs? What could the counterfactual hypothesis have possibly been?
2025 is magic 🐇: it's the number of invertible shuffles of 23 cards and appears in Johnson, Jr.'s magic square of squares, which has magic constant 93025.
January 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
2025 is magic 🐇: it's the number of invertible shuffles of 23 cards and appears in Johnson, Jr.'s magic square of squares, which has magic constant 93025.
Happy Chanukkah! 🕎
Here's a thematic puzzle, styled after the cover of a children's puzzle magazine:
The story is that there's been a bit of confusion – everyone's preparing for different holidays! Can you sort them out, and determine what we need in order to tune up the present celebration?
Here's a thematic puzzle, styled after the cover of a children's puzzle magazine:
The story is that there's been a bit of confusion – everyone's preparing for different holidays! Can you sort them out, and determine what we need in order to tune up the present celebration?
December 28, 2024 at 7:39 PM
Happy Chanukkah! 🕎
Here's a thematic puzzle, styled after the cover of a children's puzzle magazine:
The story is that there's been a bit of confusion – everyone's preparing for different holidays! Can you sort them out, and determine what we need in order to tune up the present celebration?
Here's a thematic puzzle, styled after the cover of a children's puzzle magazine:
The story is that there's been a bit of confusion – everyone's preparing for different holidays! Can you sort them out, and determine what we need in order to tune up the present celebration?
As you're solving your optimization for this weekend, clearly the utility-maximizing strategy is to enter the December Quora Knowledge Contest in Economics: contests.quora.com/Now-Open-Dec...
December 20, 2024 at 3:08 PM
As you're solving your optimization for this weekend, clearly the utility-maximizing strategy is to enter the December Quora Knowledge Contest in Economics: contests.quora.com/Now-Open-Dec...
Fantastic writeup by @drewcoffman.bsky.social on
Chris Dixon's Read Write Own 🟧, Steve Kaczynski's and my The Everything Token 📙, and the optimism both books offer for the future of the Internet.
Honored to be included here, and to have had the opportunity to inspire such positive reflections 🙏.
Chris Dixon's Read Write Own 🟧, Steve Kaczynski's and my The Everything Token 📙, and the optimism both books offer for the future of the Internet.
Honored to be included here, and to have had the opportunity to inspire such positive reflections 🙏.
December 9, 2024 at 11:59 PM
Fantastic writeup by @drewcoffman.bsky.social on
Chris Dixon's Read Write Own 🟧, Steve Kaczynski's and my The Everything Token 📙, and the optimism both books offer for the future of the Internet.
Honored to be included here, and to have had the opportunity to inspire such positive reflections 🙏.
Chris Dixon's Read Write Own 🟧, Steve Kaczynski's and my The Everything Token 📙, and the optimism both books offer for the future of the Internet.
Honored to be included here, and to have had the opportunity to inspire such positive reflections 🙏.
Super exciting result, solving a century-old puzzle problem
🟥 ↔️ 🔺️
🟥 ↔️ 🔺️
December 8, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Super exciting result, solving a century-old puzzle problem
🟥 ↔️ 🔺️
🟥 ↔️ 🔺️
The annual a16z "Big Ideas" roundup just dropped 💭👀‼
Mine for this year is about the emerging renaissance of information aggregation 🖼👇
Mine for this year is about the emerging renaissance of information aggregation 🖼👇
December 4, 2024 at 6:35 PM
The annual a16z "Big Ideas" roundup just dropped 💭👀‼
Mine for this year is about the emerging renaissance of information aggregation 🖼👇
Mine for this year is about the emerging renaissance of information aggregation 🖼👇
Issues #244 -- Plastic Beach by @deltasauce.bsky.social: part of a tour through history by way of imaginary magazines 📗
December 1, 2024 at 11:39 PM
Issues #244 -- Plastic Beach by @deltasauce.bsky.social: part of a tour through history by way of imaginary magazines 📗
(Honestly amazing that you have a book whose cover is in Wordle colors)
November 29, 2024 at 3:29 PM
(Honestly amazing that you have a book whose cover is in Wordle colors)
And here's the frequency allocation chart for comparison:
November 26, 2024 at 9:51 PM
And here's the frequency allocation chart for comparison:
A few I have already minted are shown below. Honestly very impressive to me how wide an array one can construct using this relatively simple generative framework.
November 26, 2024 at 9:51 PM
A few I have already minted are shown below. Honestly very impressive to me how wide an array one can construct using this relatively simple generative framework.
This generative image I created using bitframes.io looks surprisingly similar to the US spectrum frequency allocation chart.
Should I mint it? 👀👀
Should I mint it? 👀👀
November 26, 2024 at 9:51 PM
This generative image I created using bitframes.io looks surprisingly similar to the US spectrum frequency allocation chart.
Should I mint it? 👀👀
Should I mint it? 👀👀
Is this a subtweet about my NFT posts 😅
November 20, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Is this a subtweet about my NFT posts 😅
Not sure what to make of the fact that over here "GM" seems to mostly be used to refer to General Managers or Game Masters 😅
November 19, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Not sure what to make of the fact that over here "GM" seems to mostly be used to refer to General Managers or Game Masters 😅
Feeling modernist. Might delete later
November 19, 2024 at 1:22 PM
Feeling modernist. Might delete later
What a time to be alive
November 18, 2024 at 8:40 PM
What a time to be alive
Quora Knowledge Contest in Economics: Election Edition
This is the third of these contests, and the first to have a theme 🗳️👀
Answer one or more of the below questions by November 25th for a chance to win a share of $3750 worth of prizes!
Details here, QED: contests.quora.com/Knowledge-Co...
This is the third of these contests, and the first to have a theme 🗳️👀
Answer one or more of the below questions by November 25th for a chance to win a share of $3750 worth of prizes!
Details here, QED: contests.quora.com/Knowledge-Co...
November 14, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Quora Knowledge Contest in Economics: Election Edition
This is the third of these contests, and the first to have a theme 🗳️👀
Answer one or more of the below questions by November 25th for a chance to win a share of $3750 worth of prizes!
Details here, QED: contests.quora.com/Knowledge-Co...
This is the third of these contests, and the first to have a theme 🗳️👀
Answer one or more of the below questions by November 25th for a chance to win a share of $3750 worth of prizes!
Details here, QED: contests.quora.com/Knowledge-Co...