matt kovach

CA native, phd from @Caltech, now an economist at @PurdueBusiness. research includes micro theory/behavioral/experimental economics. all statements are my own.

[matt kovach @mlkovach1]

Can an LLM Learn Preferences from Choice Data?

I am happy to announce that we have finished revising our paper on this topic. We study whether LLMs can infer preferences from choice data and then make preference-consistent recommendations in new problems.

[matt kovach @mlkovach1]

@florianederer for a while now @arxiv has been the best option for working papers

[matt kovach @mlkovach1]

@MrDrDanPhd @MorePerfectUS because half the government actively works against building

[matt kovach @mlkovach1]

@mean_field_zane agree. also it’s not even clear he actually mixed up the conditional so much as wrote a bad sentence.

[matt kovach @mlkovach1]

@mean_field_zane @localsweety idk. there’s obvious selection here but i see lots of people start phds each year and end up graduating with partners

[matt kovach @mlkovach1]

@mean_field_zane @localsweety i see how that would be demoralizing, but i think things will work out for most people if they don’t fall down the “red pill / woman hate” rabbit hole

[matt kovach @mlkovach1]

@mean_field_zane @localsweety i see lots of people dating and getting married and all that. i guess there’s information selection on both ends of the spectrum so i’ll partially grant your point

[matt kovach @mlkovach1]

@mean_field_zane @localsweety i’ll grant that some have had such experience and retract the word “incel,” but i think many of these concerns are overblown and mostly this stuff is just toxic engagement bait that leads young men astray and sets them up for failure

[matt kovach @mlkovach1]

@mean_field_zane @localsweety ok, fine. what’s the current term for this genre of dude?

[matt kovach @mlkovach1]

@btshapir true. and for most forms of work, a utility van >>> a truck

[matt kovach @mlkovach1]

@mean_field_zane @localsweety i don’t even think it’s trauma for many of them. the incels have just never experienced caring for someone else and hence cannot fathom genuine care being expressed. it’s sad, but also almost entirely self-inflicted

[matt kovach @mlkovach1]

alternative read: guy with rational expectations misdiagnosed

[Mason @webdevMason]

Out of morbid curiosity, I looked into it. One poor guy had about half of his worries actually occur. Prayers for anxieties georg

[matt kovach @mlkovach1]

@alz_zyd_ @merlinn087 i’ve learned that some people think “arbitrary” means “random.” Somewhat related, some also tend to think “random” means “uniformly random”

[geni @rainylavndr]

ideas for what to do with jewelry that makes decisions for you:

[matt kovach @mlkovach1]

@alexolegimas @TuhinChakr excellent post / analysis, but gosh this is so disappointing

[matt kovach @mlkovach1]

@btshapir “touching grass,” as they say, is actually so effective at improving mood (at least for me)

[Chris Blattman @cblatts]

My hypothesis: US university education was a massively successful export industry (foreign students paying tuition + housing + living expenses is literally classified as exports) and Trump admin collapsed this demand.

[matt kovach @mlkovach1]

@SFGaliani as a fellow gaucho, hell yeah! :)

[Patrick Heizer @PatrickHeizer]

The president purchasing Nvidia shares a week before his own Commerce Department allows them to sell one of our most valuable assets to our main geopolitical opponent is unfathomably more corrupt than anything on Hilary Clinton's email server.

[matt kovach @mlkovach1]

botw is definitely one of the best (zelda) games ever and anyone complaining that she's not a "real zelda fan" needs to chill

[Netflix @netflix]

Kylie Jenner passionately explains The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild to Jake Shane on a new episode of Therapuss

[matt kovach @mlkovach1]

i’m in this picture and i don’t like it 😞