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Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 4d

very much so! Was reminded of it while listening to this podcast recently: www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

330 | Petter Törnberg on the Dynamics of (Mis)Information – Sean Carroll

www.preposterousuniverse.com

Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 5d

Spending time outdoors is just an idealized activity for this group, and in fact, the less affluent get to do more of it.

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Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 6d

My favs: Peace Prize, "for showing that drinking alcohol sometimes improves a person’s ability to speak in a foreign language." and Physics Prize, "for discoveries about the physics of pasta sauce, especially the phase transition that can lead to clumping, which can be a cause of unpleasantness" :)

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Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 6d

In preparation for its less humble cousin.

Past Ig Winners

Ig® Nobel Prize Winners For achievements that first make people LAUGH then make them THINK Winners by year: 2025 : 2024 : 2023 : 2022 : 2021 2020 : 2019 : 2018 : 2017 : 2016 2015 : 2014 : 2013 : 20…

improbable.com

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Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · 9d

💯and this holds not just for books.

Spending time with the material

Digital reading only goes so far.

www.robinsloan.com

Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · Aug 17

Of course Tversky paves the road to interpretable AI:
gonzoml.substack.com/p/tversky-ne...

Tversky Neural Networks

Psychologically Plausible Deep Learning with Differentiable Tversky Similarity

gonzoml.substack.com

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Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · Aug 14

In an essay called "To Act As If", Inger Christensen writes "It's nothing new for art and science to operate at the boundary between meaning and meaninglessness." Got me thinking about how the many "as if" assumptions in (behavioral) econ might be distributed around this boundary...🤔

Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · Aug 14

Why "irrationally" 🙃?

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Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · Aug 14

Ha! I can see that and now I feel like I've been missing out on good discussions about shoes 🥲

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Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · Aug 14

While I do agree with you, I feel like it's better if these people can now talk to their friends about a book, rather than...dunno...shoes?

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Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · Aug 13

*interference :)

Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · Aug 13

After reading the White House letter about the internal review process of the Smithsonian exhibitions, I think I found a way they can legitimately avoid all this interreference: submit one thing of the many requested and say the indexing suggested they were all one and the same :)

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Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · Aug 4

In an attempt to see the glass half full, my takeaway is: keep applying--as early and as often as possible 🤓

Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · Aug 4

Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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David Bisset @davidbisset.com · Jul 24

Why I 🧡 the web.

drawafish.com

Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

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Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · Jul 21

I am quite hopeful that these tools will give us more time to think, and to think more deeply

NBER @nber.org · Jul 21

Modeling computers and AI as cognitive tools provides a lens to interpret evidence on inequality, workflows, and teams, from Ajay K. Agrawal, @joshgans.bsky.social, and Avi Goldfarb https://www.nber.org/papers/w34034

Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · Jul 18

Frank O'Hara

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Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · Jul 15

slightly better quality: www.youtube.com/watch?v=11p0... :)

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Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · Jul 15

almost as compelling as David Lynch cooking quinoa: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSP-...

David Lynch on Cooking Quinoa

YouTube video by scaynes

www.youtube.com

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Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · Jul 14

with a bit of a delay, since Bluesky's feed is a bit random, but I was there, and it was a great talk! Here's a summary of it: dennievandolder.com/post/impact-...

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Economics LMU Munich @econmunich.bsky.social · Jul 14

🔵Coming up this Monday!
Join us on July 14 at 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 with @atavoni.bsky.social (𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐚), who will present "Tipping in Coordination Games: An Experimental Approach"

🔗https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/alessandro.tavoni/en

#EconSky

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Valeria Burdea @valeriaburdea.bsky.social · Jul 13

There are many good things about learning with an LLM. But one key advantage of learning with other people is that they can ask you questions that make you realize you actually don't know what you're talking about :)

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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · Jul 11

Humboldt University just won a court case against its own boss, the government of Berlin. 😲

The case was about limited-term employment for scientific staff.

Here's a quick-and-dirty explainer, esp. for non-German readers who may be affected. 1/n

www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/frust...