The 43-Year-Old AP
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Assistant to the professor. International economics. Modern Fortran 😏 enjoyer. Living the Markov-only lifestyle. Pseudo-anonymous.
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Joined October 2025
I have two exceptional students on the market this year but because this is now a pseudo-anonymous shitpoasting account I can't advertise them. Contact me via traditional methods to know more. — Victim of random false positive AI moderation
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🚨 Lana Del Rey admits she has a secret X/Twitter where she rage-baits people.
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Choices have consequences? Why does this keep happening? This is the last thing they expected.
NEW: UC San Diego has released a new report documenting a “steep decline in the academic preparedness” of its freshmen. The number of entering students needing remedial math has exploded from 1/100 to 1/8. They’ve had to create a second remedial class covering elementary and
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“The only student of mine I was ever intimidated by. He was so quick. There was a seminar for advanced students in Zürich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came to a certain theorem, and I said it is not proved and it may be difficult. Von Neumann didn't say
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R^2 over t-Stat. I've been saying this since the early 2010s and was treated as a heretic.
A lovely post. In addition the the causal inference revolution, we now need a "variance explained" revolution which focuses on understanding what drives the variation in the world we see around us
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* held by the public. Not including all sorts of promises made to Boomers, etc.
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Nicki loves veterans. Cardi B is silent, possibly hates veterans. 🤔
Dear Veterans, Thank you. Happy Veterans Day ♥️
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@paulnovosad We've overdone the "audience knows something that the speaker doesn't" and forgot about the arguably more important one, that the speaker knows something that the audience doesn't.
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Hehe, this guy believes the "official maps." I bet he keeps getting COVID boosters too. And JFK was killed by a lone gunman, I bet. 😏 The credulity of some people.
it's not sufficiently appreciated how much water is there in the Pacific
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NEW: Study says there's no link between writing your model in continuous time and autism — ECMA
NEW: Study says there's no link between Tylenol and autism — TIME
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President Trump has declared that the week of November 2-8 will henceforth be known as Anti-Communism Week! In remembrance of the millions of victims of communism and awareness of the evil of communism, let's share some facts about communism!
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What's the big deal? We have low-gluten flour, water, and eggs too. 🫤
Ok this is out of control 107% tariffs on Italian pasta????
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New working paper from our colleague Cesar Sosa-Padilla (@cesarspa1), "The Perils of Bilateral Sovereign Debt," (with Francisco Roldan). @IMFNews working paper. Check it out:
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We study the interaction between private and official sovereign debts. We develop a quantitative sovereign default model featuring a senior creditor with whom borrowing terms are negotiated. We use...
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My dear friend Min Park created this dataset on large depreciations with Alex Culiuc. You might find it useful:
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The Culiuc & Park (2025) Dataset of Large Depreciations identifies and characterizes 562 large exchange rate depreciations across 152 countries between 1971 and 2024.
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Ah! You see, this miserable little document, this so-called date-me doc, is our era’s most honest pornography. It pretends to be romance, but what is it really? It is no longer the trembling hand on paper, the confession of desire. It is a spreadsheet of desire. “I am ready. I am
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Reducing AC usage, reducing emmissions, paper straws etc., it's all just incredibly performative Meaning it's an act for show, not something that actually contributes to saving the environment or stopping climate change Especially in the case of Singapore, a tiny city state
Average restaurant in Singapore 27°C / 81°F They used to lead the world in AC use, as a result they became rich and high IQ
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