The Food Professor would very much like you to know he has a new paper out, let me encourage you to read it. Read every word. Read it twice. Yes, I mean it. Think of it as a personal favour to me.
And, since I read it, I have some thoughts...
#1 ingredient for a successful job hunt: Job Market Objective Function.
Without your own objective function, it’s scarily easy to accidentally adopt someone else’s goals. Clearly, maximizing someone else’s goals means you’re unlikely to reach your true optimal outcome.
Here's a wild anecdote: while teaching high school students about genocide in 1993, Walz had them use GIS data to predict where the next one would occur. They said Rwanda. (the NYT verified this via interviews with some of those students in a 2008 story)
There’s this girl on TikTok who has a series investigating boys’ rooms in NYC and it’s my new favorite thing in the world.
Guaranteed some girl out there is losing her mind over this guy not texting her back
Forsyth County detention officer, fired during inmate's death investigation in 2019, rehired in 2024 | Click on the image to read the full story https://t.co/cpMwXoQtvL
There is a great explainer on the Tunnel Jews here!
It doesn't *really* leave you any less perplexed than when you started, but at least you're perplexed about new stuff.
It's part of a dispute between splinter factions over who owns the synagogue.
https://t.co/zvBDwZes4b
After a long year, it's finally time. Announcing the Worst Tweets of 2023 Bracket!
I've spent the entire year collecting hundreds of deranged tweets, awful takes, and the most insane discourses on this site. Only 64 were chosen.
Now it's time to crown a champion.