Matthew Shum

Professor of economics at Caltech

[Matthew Shum @MatthewShum2]

@PinkseJoris @SNageebAli @arpitrage A friend of mine once told me that the difference between the Dutch and the Flemish are that in Flanders people draw the curtains at night for privacy while in Holland they don't draw the curtains because no one peeks...

[KTLA @KTLA]

BREAKING: The city of Pasadena will allow restaurants to keep outdoor dining open despite L.A. County's health order. The city will reassess daily.
https://t.co/uLa5FTkDS2

[Caltech Alumni Association @caltechalumni]

We mourn the loss of @Caltech professor of economics and alumnus Kim C. Border (BS '74), who passed away on November 19. He was 68 years old. We encourage #CaltechAlumni to share memories of Kim Border in his honor. https://t.co/OyHu5N9dkv #Caltech

[Matthew Shum @MatthewShum2]

thanks Gerelt!

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@luismbcabral Oh I get a lot of joyous music out of Youtube. This is one recent favorite: a solo Covid-era recital of Martha Argerich (who *never* gives solo recitals anymore!) playing Chopin's Sonata #3 https://t.co/eqndsDFoBd

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@M_ttM_ Maybe just a bad case of "there's nothing better to do under Covid lockdown" 😧

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@ben_golub @pauljhealy yes! so multifaceted. Plus he played the saxophone and was the voice of reason in faculty meetings, reeling us back when the discussion had gone off into remote tendrils of the game tree...

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@silviocontessi I agree, McD's coffee surprisingly not bad! I still miss that espresso stand they used to have at the library at Johns Hopkins, a nice break from the office 😃

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@silviocontessi @SHamiltonian Honestly I thought the brewed coffee at 7-11 Australia was better than the brewed coffee at Starbucks in the US!

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@M_ttM_ mama said knock u out! 👊👊

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@silviocontessi @SHamiltonian there's a proportionality principle between the quality of the coffee and the degree of bureaucracy 😆 (The coffee in 7-11 in Australia is really good btw!)

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@RunnerVgn I agree also the storage requirements of Moderna's vaccine seem more reasonable. Plus the CEO hasn't dumped $50 million shares (yet!)

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@USydneyEcon @dprbyrne @arc_gov_au @unimelb @ClemsonUniv @ArtSS_Sydney congratulations, guys!

[Kosuke Uetake @Chanman_ECON]

Updated a new paper with Xiao Liu (NYU) and Matt Shum (Caltech) on viewing and attention to baseball game telecasts: https://t.co/SQ3098Yvph! We use detailed viewing & attention data to examine TV content design (e.g., suspense & surprise) and implications for advertisers.

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@Albert_RogerF ahh ok-- so it depends whether nada comes before or after the verb. one would say "nada soy yo" but "no soy nada" I guess...

[Matthew Shum @MatthewShum2]

just curious, for those of you who know spanish (or any other related romance language), would "yo no soy nada" mean "I am nothing" or "I am not nothing"? thx

[Matthew Shum @MatthewShum2]

@Mohsen_ff @ffugaz @MarianoTappata @dade_us Thx for clarifying! Indeed Chinese speakers also confuse the he/she, prob for the same reason that he/she are not distinguished in spoken Chinese (but are in written Chinese).

[Matthew Shum @MatthewShum2]

@Mohsen_ff @ffugaz @MarianoTappata @dade_us Persian is such an interesting language, amazing that there is no distinction btw "he" and "she" (او), wouldn't that lead to a lot of ambiguity in daily conversation?

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@Mohsen_ff @ffugaz @MarianoTappata @dade_us I am actually learning Farsi right now! so in Farsi you would say هیچ نیستم, is that right?