Joshua Gans
@joshgans
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Professor at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Chief Economist of Creative Destruction Lab https://t.co/a9ZbnBauCF
Toronto, Ontario
Joined November 2008
If only it had been Louvre1!
At the time of the brazen heist of $102 million in jewels from the Louvre last month, the password to the world-famous museum's video surveillance system was simply "Louvre," according to a museum employee with knowledge of the system. https://t.co/RyIcVIKj48
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How there ever been a stock option package that didn’t conceptually give its recipient the possibility of $1 trillion?
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TODAY: Stop by Flatiron Public Plaza to learn about Grayscale CoinDesk Crypto 5 ETF (Ticker: $GDLC) and the underlying tokens. Bitcoin Ethereum $SOL $XRP $ADA We’ll be sharing how $GDLC streamlines crypto exposure and giving attendees a limited-edition Grayscale Speedcube to
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If noncompetes were about training incentives why aren’t they restrictions on job type as opposed to industry?
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Also, if anyone wants to help me poach @joshgans referrals (everyone loves to support a grad student!), here's my link to get you and me a free review:
Agreed - refine is amazing. Their margins must be absurd (75% +?). I’ve heard that startups only appealing to academics don’t make $, but this has gotta be $$$… for @ben_golub and co… so epic. Is this a pattern (niche market, huge margin?) that will continue? Or am I wrong
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Hedera’s architecture routes activity through its Hashgraph consensus, enabling high throughput and low-latency finality Core services—Consensus, Token, and Smart Contracts—support Payments, DeFi, NFTs, and Decentralized ID All governed by the Hedera Council
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Joe Rogan and Russell Crowe talk about how America’s healthcare system is broken. Crowe: “That's one of the things that does trouble me greatly for this country.” “Something has perverted here, where the drug that I can buy for $50 for a month supply in Australia is $2,500 for
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Expected Parrot just launched on @ycombinator's Launch YC! Expected Parrot: Simulate your customers with AI agents. Check them out:
ycombinator.com
Meet Expected Parrot, the open-source framework for simulating your customers with AI agents.
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Abacus Global Management $ABL Reports Third Quarter 2025 Results Third Quarter 2025 Highlights: • Total revenue for the third quarter grew 124% to $63.0 million, compared to $28.1 million in the prior-year period. The increase was driven by continued growth in Abacus’ Life
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My coauthor @joshgans draws the link: recent AI debate => recent Nobel prize in economics. (video posted in thread)
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Folks, this is a hot deal. Try out https://t.co/nwfadVnK4O and you (and I) get a free review if you use the referral code https://t.co/aZ4e6ZmXLZ I'm telling you, it is worth it. You'll save at minimum one round of journal submissions.
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"Supply disruptions shapes the global internet backbone: new paper shows diversification drives cable entry & surplus, but markets may underprovide diversity." New Paper by @CaouiHadi & Steck: https://t.co/wULc0yJ4Gq
#EconTwitter #REStud
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Episode 6: Mike Stopforth talks POWER AND PREDICTION by Ajay Agarwal, Jo... https://t.co/J7UaxwTmRx via @YouTube
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Bill Maher new episodes seem to have been pulled from @CraveCanada this week.
It's time ⏰ A new episode of the Emmy-nominated talk show #RealTime with Bill Maher is now streaming, only on Crave.
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Decentralised Robotics 🧵 I/ Building datasets for embodied AI is tough—humanoid robots need real-world human motion task data, but collecting it at scale has been limited to research lab projects or closed source big labs. At Eidon, we started with our wearable IMU trackers.
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Things are happening.
I crossed an interesting threshold yesterday, which I think many other mathematicians have been crossing recently as well. In the middle of trying to prove a result, I identified a statement that looked true and that would, if true, be useful to me. 1/3
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There's "LLM sycophancy" and there is "response to referees sycophancy" which is a whole other level.
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How great is this? Well done. We need more of this in economics.
Thrilled that my Minimalist Market Design monograph is forthcoming in the Econometric Society Monograph Series. The revised and much expanded version is now available on arXiv: https://t.co/au0wAOwWEo This thread unpacks the framework — scholarly, reflective, personal. (1/20)
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.@ATabarrok suggests the US adopt what I guess, since I am told that Canada is a socialist hellscape, socialist policies with respect to air traffic control.
marginalrevolution.com
Yesterday, the FAA grounded flights at Reagan (DCA) because there weren’t enough air traffic controllers. By mid‑afternoon, thousands of flights were delayed nationwide. The same thing is happening...
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This paper is really cool, but perhaps my favorite part is that they determine author order via Mario Kart
LLMs are injective and invertible. In our new paper, we show that different prompts always map to different embeddings, and this property can be used to recover input tokens from individual embeddings in latent space. (1/6)
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Its time to have another community Fan Art event where you make the art, and the community votes their favorite! The top 5 art pieces will be receiving the rewards! RULES: - Anything Hero Siege related - No NSFW - No AI (we will filter these out) - Post progress pictures, at
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I'm on the academic job market! My research examines the implications of exclusionary environments for individuals' careers, team performance, and organizations—with a focus on knowledge work. In my JMP, I study how sexual misconduct affects scientific production.
When sexual misconduct at universities becomes public, departments publish less (roughly nine fewer papers over five years). The productivity hit comes from disclosure, not the misconduct itself (i.e., organizational costs of reputational crises).
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