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poli sci, philosophy, and math @dukeu. thinking about systems and institutions. unwilling commentator on strivers and society.
durham, nc
Joined January 2017
Wrote about how I think about AI's effects on the labor market! I think about occupations as being on a Causal/Negotiation paradigm, and how that seems to be an underlying factor in determining replacement risk.
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machiavelli, guy who praised republican governance and the carthaginian empire for its multiculturalism while living under monarchies during the 1500s, reeaaallllly doesn’t belong here
>“Banned books” >Look inside >Literal slop practically forced on the public >Meanwhile actual banned books
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serves that clanker right
Watching the original Iron Man with 6yo, and I had my first experience of feeling Wokily guilty about having enjoyed a movie at a time when cultural norms were different: Tony Stark is really, unacceptably rude to his AI.
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i am a chetty zealot. a pious devotee. perhaps among his most outspoken fans.
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per the authors of the paper from which the chart comes from: the problem is not the test, but everything that happens before the test.
If the SAT or ACT were biased against disadvantaged students, you would not expect to see this pattern
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average student welfare up lottery system for elite universities with race, gender, major, and geographical quotas now please
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50 years from now when historians look through the national archives' twitter collection, this is what they will find
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"you don't have adhd, young asian man. just study harder!"
I am on the (red-hot) 2025–26 academic job market! I study wide-ranging, important, and contemporary issues in education policy and domestic violence. My job market paper studies academic accommodations in higher education: trends and drivers, who uses them, and academic impacts.
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I’m on the #EconJobMarket! School districts have been eliminating achievement-based admissions in an effort to promote access to the most sought-after schools for disadvantaged and underrepresented students. But what happens when this change occurs, and can we do better? 1/12
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semi updated with vibes-based clustering and col adjustment cluster 1: +1.13 or +0.03 std per $1k more cluster 2: + 6.80 or +0.26 std per $1k more cluster 3: +0.77 or +0.02 std per $1k more
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man all this talk over the past two days really makes me want to write a paper on this and find more DATA. NOM NOM DATA NOM NOM COLLEGE BOARD REPORT NOM NOM DISTRICT-LEVEL FUNDING FORMULAS NOM NOM COST OF LIVING AND MEDIAN HOUSING SALE PRICE NOM NOM
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iirc in middle school, i might have fallen asleep like 3/4 the way through a state test and that led to me being one step below the highest math and reading rung until i gained a conscious and was like what i am doing in this class
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aside: my gut instinct tells me that SAT results give a stronger picture than state-wide exams due to performance incentives. yes, there are selection effects that must be accounted for. but when is the last time you heard of anyone taking a mandatory state test seriously?
the simpson's paradox strikes again (and also there is strong literature supporting the crazy idea that more money from richer homes means better public schools)
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IS THAT THE PILOT SINGING VOICE FOR ALASTOR FROM HAZBIN HOTEL IN FRONT OF THE SUN??
Here's the full photo briefly featured in my recent video post showing @BlackGryph0n against the full solar chromosphere after his jump. Crazy how small he looks despite being nearly 50,000,000x closer! This ended up being my most popular print (vs the closeup) linked in my bio.
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this story also demonstrates the positive qualities of context-specific meritocracy!
When I was in college at UChicago, I dated another student from Appalachia. She once told me she had gotten straight As in high school calculus -- and when she took the AP exam, she got a 1, the worst possible grade. (And she was pretty talented, she later on pretty well at
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graph made during my maccas lunch so ignore the ugliness. found data. glm was negative coefficient. thought for 5 seconds. bucketed by participation rate
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no wonder everyone has adhd all of a sudden (UNBLOCK ME NOVOSAD PLEEEAAASSSEE)
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in an effort to improve academic standards, all college applicants must at minimum be able to read: sdiybt calculate: [6, 7] • [4, 1]
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the simpson's paradox strikes again (and also there is strong literature supporting the crazy idea that more money from richer homes means better public schools)
It doesn't matter how much money you put into schools. Here's a cross-sectional overview. Per pupil spending and math scores.
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