Ben Fifield
@benfifield.bsky.social
wildly under-viewed interviews that rob tibshirani conducted over the past year for a reading course. really interesting discussions with Don Rubin, Jamie Robins, Jerry Friedman, Vladimir Vovk, and others www.youtube.com/@LedaLiang/v...
Leda Liang
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March 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
wildly under-viewed interviews that rob tibshirani conducted over the past year for a reading course. really interesting discussions with Don Rubin, Jamie Robins, Jerry Friedman, Vladimir Vovk, and others www.youtube.com/@LedaLiang/v...
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Folks smarter than me will point you today to how to *listen* to Steve Albini's impact on the music Gen X grew up with. I want to encourage you to read him in his own words, with "The Problem with Music," a essay he wrote for The Baffler in 1993 warning rising bands about "music industry scum." RIP.
May 8, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Folks smarter than me will point you today to how to *listen* to Steve Albini's impact on the music Gen X grew up with. I want to encourage you to read him in his own words, with "The Problem with Music," a essay he wrote for The Baffler in 1993 warning rising bands about "music industry scum." RIP.
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Does sustained contact with migrants change locals' attitudes toward them in wartime? In a new AJPS article, Yang-Yang Zhou & me conduct a field experiment in Kandahar, Afghanistan, and find no evidence that locals' attitudes changed in any way
Open Access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Open Access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Prolonged contact does not reshape locals' attitudes toward migrants in wartime settings
Despite record numbers of internally displaced persons (IDPs) globally, we know little about the causal effects of intergroup contact between migrants and locals in active conflict settings. We condu...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 25, 2024 at 11:00 AM
Does sustained contact with migrants change locals' attitudes toward them in wartime? In a new AJPS article, Yang-Yang Zhou & me conduct a field experiment in Kandahar, Afghanistan, and find no evidence that locals' attitudes changed in any way
Open Access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Open Access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Analysts spend countless hours and resources compiling the precinct-level election results they need for litigation and research. They want legislation to force states to make it all accessible.
NEW in Bolts:
NEW in Bolts:
Election Data Is Vital to Voting Rights. So Why Is It So Hard to Track Down?
Analysts spend countless hours and resources compiling the precinct-level results they need for litigation and research. They want legislation to force states to make it all accessible.
boltsmag.org
April 12, 2024 at 4:27 PM
Analysts spend countless hours and resources compiling the precinct-level election results they need for litigation and research. They want legislation to force states to make it all accessible.
NEW in Bolts:
NEW in Bolts:
gonna start using emacs+ess again www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcL...
February 22, 2024 at 5:29 PM
gonna start using emacs+ess again www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcL...
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roses are red
i’m facing an impediment
covariance matrix of latent variables is not positive definite
i’m facing an impediment
covariance matrix of latent variables is not positive definite
February 14, 2024 at 1:15 PM
roses are red
i’m facing an impediment
covariance matrix of latent variables is not positive definite
i’m facing an impediment
covariance matrix of latent variables is not positive definite
February 9, 2024 at 1:27 PM
buying steel wool to keep mice out of the basement, aka mouse nimby
November 6, 2023 at 12:57 PM
buying steel wool to keep mice out of the basement, aka mouse nimby
a proud day for princeton pol grads named fife
“Giberson graduated with Princeton’s Class of 2023 in May with a degree in politics and certificates in French and the Program in Values and Public Life” paw.princeton.edu/article/larr...
Larry Giberson ’23 Pleads Guilty to Involvement in Jan. 6 Attack on Capitol
Larry Fife Giberson ’23, who was arrested in March while attending Princeton, pleaded guilty on Monday to civil disorder, a felony, for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
paw.princeton.edu
November 1, 2023 at 8:22 PM
a proud day for princeton pol grads named fife
Peng Ding's causal inference course book draft, this looks like a killer book to complement hernan and robins, imbens and rubin, etc
A First Course in Causal Inference http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18793 I developed the lecture notes based on my ``Causal Inference'' course at the University of California Berkeley over the past seven years. Since half of the students were undergraduates, my lecture notes only required basic knowle
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October 4, 2023 at 4:26 PM
Peng Ding's causal inference course book draft, this looks like a killer book to complement hernan and robins, imbens and rubin, etc
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Thanks to Lawrence Lessig for the vivid lesson of how power and privilege work.
September 30, 2023 at 4:20 PM
Thanks to Lawrence Lessig for the vivid lesson of how power and privilege work.
