Caleb Watney
@calebwatney
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co-founder @IFP // the US is the R&D lab for the world and we should act like it
Brookland, DC
Joined January 2012
RT @AlecStapp: I'm thrilled to announce that @ZLiscow has joined @IFP as a Senior Fellow. We're honored to have the country's leading scho….
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RT @JeremyLNeufeld: A “Wage Level” ranking would end up helping the outsourcing companies that have taken over the H-1B program. They bri….
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RT @JeremyLNeufeld: In the next few days, the Trump administration is going to propose a new regulation changing the H-1B lottery. The bi….
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RT @danwwang: For friends in DC, I’ll be speaking . tonight at an IFP/FAI event hosted by @AlecStapp and @hamandcheese..
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Bitcoin’s on fire at $112K! Time to flip the charts on BTCC!.Exploring Cryptocurrency with Jaren Jackson Jr.🏀.
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Sorry babe I need to get my GPT-5 Pro requests in before I go to bed so I have fresh lit reviews for the morning.
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RT @patrickc: Remarkable that US spending on pharmaceuticals is just ~1.6% of GDP. Amazingly good value for money considering the welfare g….
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RT @ATabarrok: It really is too on the nose that America’s fast new train will actually run on a slower schedule.
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LLMs scaled rapidly because the internet gave us oceans of structured language data. But we lack equivalent datasets for the tacit knowledge hidden in scientific labs. A neat @Ben_Reinhardt proposal for "Unstructured Data Generation Labs" to change that:.
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How block-grant labs can generate the real-world data AI needs to do science
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RT @MichaelEddy: Science faces a replication crisis: billions wasted, progress slowed, policy misled. A new idea from @I4Replication's Brod….
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How to build automated replication infrastructure for better, faster science
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RT @Afinetheorem: Incredibly excited for my brand new class at Toronto Rotman this fall: Progress! Econ history + theory + history of tech/….
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this song has been stuck in my head all day and now it's stuck in yours
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RT @emollick: It seems like there is not enough of a policy response to the fact that, with 57M miles of data, Waymo’s autonomous vehicles….
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RT @sebkrier: Fukuyama was so prescient. In a society with strong rights and material comfort, but light on demanding shared purposes and s….
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RT @BasilHalperin: Prati and Senik (2025) below discuss "the rescaling hypothesis", that if surveys ask for happiness on a scale of 0 to 10….
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RT @mnolangray: The difference is, "Her" is set in a universe that forked in 2018. In that universe, California passed SB 827, and Los Ange….
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We are looking for a new grad engineer to join our engineering team. This is an unique opportunity to work on an high-visibility special projects with support from many industry leaders and CEOs. If you’re passionate about performance engineering, system reliability, and want.
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RT @andrewmgerard: Deadline to pitch your ideas for the Transit Policy Playbook (a collaboration between @IFP and Slow Boring @mattyglesias….
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RT @AlecStapp: Final reminder:. The deadline to submit ideas for our Transit Policy Playbook is this Sunday. Submit here: .
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RT @_brianpotter: The US uses around 322 billion gallons of water each day. This week on Construction Physics, I look at where it all goes.….
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Water infrastructure often gets less attention and focus than other types of infrastructure.
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