MIT-hoogleraar Pattie Maes: ‘Niemand snapt hoe taalmodellen werken, ook de bedrijven erachter niet’

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Thanks for sharing @florianederer.bsky.social Now that’s art — a true masterpiece!

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Agree! 🏷️ @benjaminmangot.bsky.social @johnjhorton.bsky.social

Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

Rings a bell, unfortunately

Summer 2025 Journal of Economic Perspectives Freely Available Online

www.aeaweb.org/issues/814

“In a footnote to that table, however, it listed 1,095 different cost figures”

🏷️ @telisdemos.bsky.social

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Jonathan Weil in www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

What are you looking at?

Weil: “The schedule of investments in the fund’s latest annual report listed 1,089 individual private-equity investments in a table that included the fair value and acquisition date for each”

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A big thank-you to the JEP editors and the data editor @larsvil.bsky.social and his team

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𝗧𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗮𝗴𝗲

We also put together a tutorial package which allows you to apply the things we do in the paper yourself: doi.org/10.34894/KND...

#economics #accounting #finance #management #business #textualanalysis #nlp

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To read it, go here: pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

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… including patent documents and job postings.

incorporating computational linguistics techniques into the analysis of economic shocks, new opportunities arise for real-time economic data, offering a more nuanced understanding of market and firm responses in times of economic volatility

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… a geopolitical event: insights that often elude traditional non-text data sources.

This approach enables extracting actionable intelligence, supporting both policy-making and strategic corporate decision-making. We also explore applications using other sources of corporate-generated text, …

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… analyze largely unstructured corporate-generated text for economic analysis. As a core example, we illustrate how textual analysis of earnings conference call transcripts can provide insights into how markets and individual firms respond to economic shocks, such as a nuclear disaster or …

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Happy to see my paper with Tarek Hassan, @aakashkalyani.bsky.social @lvanlent.bsky.social Markus Schwedeler, and Ahmed Tahoun published in the 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴

𝗧𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗮𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗔𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀

In it, we discuss how to apply computational linguistics techniques to …

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APOLLO: “.. Nvidia now has the biggest weight in the S&P 500 of any individual stock since the data began in 1981.”

Peter Temin, economic historian at MIT, has passed away. He worked both on problems of understanding the past (e.g. "Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression?") and how how the past shapes the present (e.g. "The Vanishing Middle Class.") Terrific scholar and mentor, generous critic.

Excessive screentime in early age associated with delayed cognitive development, both directly and indirectly through what it crowds out: play, talk, & exploration. But limited use seems fine.

Referees make the journal system work. They are selfless in volunteering their time to ensure that our science continues to progress.

All of the great referees out there please know that editors recognize your hard work and tireless effort. We do not always say it, but we do! Thank you.

What a fantastic accomplishment -- and what a fantastic story! www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah...

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing

As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements

This is a big deal

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.