📊 Join me & @jburnmurdoch for an @interintellect_ salon on measuring progress, using youth mental health as a case study. Why is it hard to measure social change? How can we tell when numbers support the narrative, and stay honest when evidence is messy?.

RT @jburnmurdoch: Everyone should be empowered to have the number of children they desire, and zero is as legitimate a choice as any. But….

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👟 What’s a good alternative to the Altra Paradigm 6 (running shoe)? . I’ve stockpiled them for 3 years (now discontinued), bought the 7 in an online sale (just arrived — horrible shoe!), and want to know if something similar or better exists.

RT @Afinetheorem: Tricky security problem: if LLM has access to private data, interacts with outside sources, and can take actions itself (….

Here's a fun game -- neither the supplier nor the payer will give you the underlying contracted cost per item (trust me, I always ask). You know what % the payer will cover. Will it be $20? $200? What's the likelihood of a billing error? . Maybe I can model this to amuse myself

Anyway, I hope these incompetent suppliers go out of business as people look on the grey market or (hopefully) better competitors come along.

DME suppliers can re-negotiate pricing with payers mid-year, so the cost of supplies can be volatile. That’s fine but means I want estimates before I order!.

It’s baffling when durable medical equipment suppliers refuse to provide out of pocket estimates for very basic things that don’t require a prescription. Most doctors and dentists I’ve recently encountered now give you estimates for routine services like allergy tests.

RT @interintellect_: In a world demanding an answer for everything, knowing when a “thin justification” is enough is a vital skill. Join @s….

RT @interintellect_: How do we build institutions that make parenting work with ambition?.It’s a crucial question in an era of falling birt….

🖼️ I am small but always expect paintings to be bigger than they are.

Strong candidates may need some help early, but quickly see patterns, build momentum, and need less help over time. Both groups might pass by the rubric!. How do you design and fairly grade interviews to identify learning potential? What’s worked for you?.

💻 In early-career technical interviews, I’ve seen both mediocre and strong candidates start off on the wrong foot. The difference? Mediocre candidates solve each step with help but don’t consistently make connections and carry learnings forward. They reset on future problems.

I like to think LLMs (esp GPT) insist on sounding like an insufferable influencer or tech bro to test my limits, even if I repeatedly protest. Surely there’s an engagement metric or experiment that rewards exasperation from stubborn, locked-in users 🙃 Sometimes I’m amused, too.

RT @joshgans: My latest paper today as born of a continual argument I was having with my economist colleagues. How early should you leave t….

Recruiters and hiring panels want you to succeed (we want to hire!) and will give you a high-level (and often generous) idea of what to expect, tooling, what’s more vs. less important to the interviewer. But we’re not going to give away the exact questions :).

1) Most employees don’t know. Your recruiter is a better source for basics, logistics, accommodations. 2) If we do know, we’re usually on the panel and can’t share. These interviews (imperfect as they are) are meant to test how you solve problems, not if you’ve memorized answers.

Tip for early-career job candidates: don’t ask current employees for hyper-specific inside info on technical or case interviews. We know you want to put your best foot forward but it can come across like asking “will X be on the exam?” That’s not how jobs work.

Why are so many balconies in Seville decorated with swordfish (?). I don't recall seeing them elsewhere in Andalucia (Cordoba, Granada, Ronda) or Valencia

RT @mattkahn1966: Why do so many women opt out of the labor market in their 30s? I claim that the rise of WFH changes this dynamic by crea….