Dimitriy V. Masterov

Into data before it was big. Keeping the world safe both from folks armed with pivot tables and people trained to detect cats at scale. Shallow learning champ.

[Dimitriy V. Masterov @falsedvmaster]

Hot Take: It's not great when people ask econometrics and programming questions here. While they get great advice from smart people, those answers are usually lost to posterity, given the recency bias and poor search on Twitter. This means the same questions come up repeatedly.

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@johnjhorton So no microfoundations?

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@johnjhorton If you take requests, please do an explainer for Busta Rhymes Island in Shrewsbury when you get home.

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@brett__gordon @NotionHQ @obsdmd But offline mode is not great.

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@brett__gordon @NotionHQ @obsdmd I like the Superbuman bundle (Coda + Superhuman email + Grammarly) for an academic-adjacent workflow.

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@jmhorp Workers in cash-heavy trades (plumbing, electrical work, construction, barbers, tattoo artists, etc.) typically have higher rates of underreported income than salaried employees. The right comparison would be a W2 electrician at a large contractor vs. a W2 SWE.

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@johnjhorton @ModeledBehavior Monkeys were the original agents: https://t.co/v3tNWKoAxv

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@johnjhorton The academic life is an abattoir of immense cruelty: moleskin trousers, herringbone or doeskin jackets, sheepskin diplomas on every surface.

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@johnjhorton Wait until he finds out the truth about vitamin D.

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@patio11 @moseskagan Time has not been kind to the targeting evidence. This is a nice update: https://t.co/PKbyduixQO

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@smod4real https://t.co/tPu4gb1cms

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@skominers https://t.co/hDTQKNUpyo

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@johnjhorton I have three words that will change your mind. Pickled. Watermelon. Rind. https://t.co/P68wZIAuw4

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Bay Area Renaissance music price discrimination:

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@lennypane Arthouse or auteur films?

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@johnjhorton @grok You can also borrow mine. My favorite icebreaker is the SS Yermak: https://t.co/nUbDgGHPTh.

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@johnjhorton @grok You ride a tricycle?

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@johnjhorton There's a River of Boiling Blood for the sinners who harmed others. Dante and Virgil encountered a group of Saxons from Sutton Hoo, whose no-good relatives filed the Planned Nonoperation paperwork instead of renewing the longboat reg after the funeral like they bloopledged!

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@Afinetheorem What’s your recommended AI IDE stack for economists?

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@jmhorp Try https://t.co/Mdt3WVjWPK

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@johnjhorton @cepr_org @akorinek @Afinetheorem Any chance this was recorded?