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