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Economic Historian at Università di Torino. Pr. I aspire to a Plinian mind. From Palermo, Sicily. Substack: https://andreamatranga.substack.com

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · Jun 5

I created a Substack! for now it's mainly a place I post lightly edited versions of my long threads.
The next post will be an explainer of
@Natkhov and myself's paper on the introduction of serfdom in Russia in response to nomadic slave raids. Sign up here
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This substack collects explanations of my projects and interests, mostly relating to Economics, History and Geography. Click to read Andrea Matranga, a Substack publication. Launched 27 minutes ago.

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 37m

honestly it would have been extremely funny if they just gave Obama another peace nobel

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 39m

Thanks! It would be an intersting art form today though! kind of like kintsugi.

Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 5h

Our nine year old wanted to know if bits of colored glass or glazed pottery that broke accidentally were ever recycled in mosaics. @sarahebond.bsky.social ?

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 5h

No see, we buy the eggs for seven cents a dozen from the Germans, abd sell them to the French for 6 cents a dozen, and after paying for the fuel for the bombers, everybody gets a share

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 7h

Where does he find the time

Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 19h

Well that's how i ahd the idea. I am using genetic algortithms to reconsruct the cost parameters, and then i remembered about this nature paper on how hub-spoke topology increased fitness, so i thought maybe it could help genetic algorithms too

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 20h

That one they did right

Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 20h

May you all have the courage to react to injustice the way our nine year old reacts to a flags of the world poster that has the swiss flag as rectangle

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 22h

Criticizing Europe for not doing enough in AI seems beside the point. If you're looking for a parking spot you don't trail somebody else looking for a spot

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 22h

Makes sense! Curious how you think it fits with the rest of your reading

Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 22h

www.andreamatranga.net/uploads/1/5/... you might also like this one on serfdom in Russia

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 22h

www.andreamatranga.net/uploads/1/5/... here it is!

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 23h

In that case the project is scrapped. I wrote the part for her and her alone

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 23h

I was just thinking that the length of time since I last presented at Harvard was pretty clos to the actuarially plausible lifespan of a fully grown golden retriever

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 23h

Pika is going to play the fierce hunting dog of the band

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 23h

I think I would be a good director. I once gave a lost tourist directions to Piazza Castello

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 23h

This whole academia thing was a cunning plan to break into hollywood

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 23h

I am only selling the rights if I get to direct

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 1d

The sea level rise was like omg the appropriate term is solidity challenged glacier

SCIENMAG @scienmag.bsky.social · 1d

North American Ice Sheets Triggered Major Sea-Level Rise at Last Ice Age’s End

Melting of North American ice sheets at the end of the last ice age has been identified as a far more significant driver of global sea-level rise than previously understood, according to groundbreaking research led by…

North American Ice Sheets Triggered Major Sea-Level Rise at Last Ice Age’s End

Melting of North American ice sheets at the end of the last ice age has been identified as a far more significant driver of global sea-level rise than previously understood, according to groundbreaking research led by Tulane University scientists. Published in the prestigious journal Nature Geoscience, this study fundamentally challenges longstanding views on glacial retreat dynamics and their climatic consequences.

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 1d

But now they harvest a lot more of the wheat so the mice gave to raid the humans stores ("take them back really") and eventually as the humans become farmers they become house mice. The local cats become housecats

Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 1d

The idea is the mice are already sedentary storers of wheat, while the humans just pass through, and they don't understand. Winters get worse and the humans settled down and store "just like us!"

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 1d

The idea is that the mice are already storing settlers while the humans used to pass through, but then stay

Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 1d

I planner out a children's adaptation about a family of field nice that see the humans become farmers and become house mice

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 1d

I thought LLMs used genetic algorithms for training, and maybe you could use core periphery cell gradient descent to improve. @shriram.bsky.social

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