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Washington, DC
Joined August 2023
Bought a crockpot today. This feels like a life altering innovation, in terms of convenience.
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This graph is very weird because within each cell, the relative vertical and horizontal position of each point is completely arbitrary. Like, they're randomly placed to make it more visually interesting, but that doesn't mean anything. (this is not a critique of the result)
A new piece in the Financial Times created a great visualization of the results from this study. TL;DR: Rent control helps people whose rents get limited, but it hurts everyone else. It pushes up rents, pushes down new building, and makes cities worse. It is horrible policy.
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Messing around with Opus 5.5 while watching NFL games, I gave it this prompt: “Create various statistically inspired pieces of art. Use data points to create abstract artifacts. Think of other designs too. Try very hard, and create something beautiful.” Results are quite good:
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Replying to @DavidJo30329121
“Provided that endogeneity approaches zero as N->\infty, then sufficiently large N gets rid of endogeneity.” Uh yea ig
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Aight come on are we endogeneitymaxxing now? Obviously sad people withdraw themselves, and having more friends is both conducive to life satisfaction and makes one more likely to text/use social media. Nature human behavior undefeated when it comes to poor/no identification
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My coworker vibecoded a metro tag app for DC. It’s pretty great.
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Cursed photo of Larry Summers (the guy from the social network)
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In all seriousness though, these are good:
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And now they’re letting nba players play college ball. Ridiculous
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