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The total disinterest most economists apparently have in leaving Twitter, even though it has a viable open-source alternative and increasingly sucks to use, should make people at StataCorp happy
Dimitrios Diamantaras@Dimitrios_Diamantaras@econtwitter.net
Economic theorist, amateur photographer, amateur singer (bass)
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My redone #introduction :
I am an associate professor of economics at Temple U in Philadelphia, USA. I am an economic theorist but have taught a wide variety of courses. I am writing a book on economic inequality. Utter newbie in applied econometrics. My papers have been on #GeneralEquilibrium models with #PublicGoods, #Consumer_Producers, #networks, and #ambiguity in #GameTheory. I love #opera and #ArtSong and dabble in singing and photography. Big fan of #openAccess, #LaTeX, #FOSS
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I've been using LaTeX for 15 years or so and still don't know if 10,000 is a small, medium, or large quantity of badness
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The bad news: our main campus library just announced it's cutting hours because of budget cuts and reduced student demand.
The good news! Our brand new 3,000 square foot E-sports center with 55 new MSI Trident gaming computers, 3 65" and 3 86" screens for livecasting games is now open!
What budget crisis?! Gotta keep looking on the bright side! #highered #academia @academicchatter@a.gup.pe
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FRED Blog:
Sources of income for high and low earners : Data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey
https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2023/08/sources-of-income-for-high-and-low-earners/
fredblog.stlouisfed.orgSources of income for high and low earners | FRED Blog
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Nous avons la tristesse de vous faire part du décès aujourd'hui de Daniel Cohen, qui était également directeur du Cepremap. Parmi ses nombreux apports à a recherche économique, il a su donner un nouvel élan au Cepremap.
Toutes nos pensées vont à sa famille et à ses proches.
https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2023/08/20/l-economiste-daniel-cohen-est-mort_6185995_3382.html
Le MondeL’économiste Daniel Cohen est mort
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Take that, Bob. From https://llama.perplexity.ai/
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Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne will resign effective August 31 according to communications released by the University Wednesday morning. He will also retract or issue lengthy corrections to five widely cited papers for which he was principal author after a Stanford-sponsored investigation found “manipulation of research data.”
The Stanford Daily · Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract at least three papers
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AI PDF: Damnnn, this was really good. Aced nearly every question (with a tiny touch of hallucination, mixing in how the internet-at-large would respond), with page-number citations and blurbs explaining where it got the answers from. This one is worth trying out
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AskYourPDF: failed every question. Said stuff wasn't in the book that was, and where it answered it was clearly pulling from other sources, not my book (and sometimes was wrong anyway)
ChatWithPDF: Couldn't load the PDF. Maybe it would do okay with a shorter document?
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I tried the three PDF-summarizing plugins available now in my ChatGPT account by giving it my book and asking it some questions of varying difficulty.
One of them was good! Really good.
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The study in question (that claimed that exposure to the Ten Commandments 
cheating) has over 3000 cites, and elicited a large-scale (failed) global replication effort.
Now the original data is “missing,” & None of the original authors (incl. Ariely) will admit collecting it.
OpenMKT.orgUCLA Professor Refuses to Cover for Dan Ariely in Issue of Data Provenance - OpenMKT.orgIn one of the more bizarre twists of the Dan Ariely saga, there is a huge issue of provenance in one of Dan Ariely’s studies. The study in question is Dan Ariely’s Ten Commandments study at JMR. The hugely impactful paper has over 3,000 citations but unfortunately failed to replicate in a large-scale systematic replication […]
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@fishecon @saminlowercase @osc What I really need is for people on #Econtwitter to start posting their research threads on this site. That's the only reason I keep hovering on Twitter
A short blog post wherein I recommend Daron Acemoglu's appearance on Markus Brunnermeier's channel to talk about the Acemoglu-Johnson book "Power and Progress".
http://dimitriosdiamantaras.me/2023/07/06/video-lecture-on-power-and-progress/
The curious incident of DD on the WebVideo lecture on Power and ProgressThree weeks ago, Daron Acemoglu gave a talk on Markus Brunnermeier’s “Markus Academy” on YouTube on the Acemoglu-Johnson book “Power and Progress”, about which I wrote…
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Real wages have grown in every region of the country this year: from 4.0% in New England down to 0.9% in the East South Central division.
This shows median wage growth rates within worker for each Census division less division's consumer price index growth rate.
https://www.atlantafed.org/chcs/wage-growth-tracker?panel=1
https://www.bls.gov/cpi/regional-resources.htm
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Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
https://www.theonion.com/crypto-leaders-call-for-infusion-of-20-million-dopes-to-1850544377
Mastodon readers, this is just a post to test the integration of my WordPress blog with Mastodon.
http://dimitriosdiamantaras.me/2023/06/09/testing-the-new-integration-with-mastodon/
The curious incident of DD on the WebTesting the new integration with MastodonFeel free to ignore this.
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Recordings of the excellent @MIT (@MIT_SCC) symposium on "Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing" are online!
My talk:
https://youtu.be/N8oh0l5fCzg
All talks of the symposium:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrhOd9RHGQ_En5DjLfqR5RcuIed_RhNlE