Michael Ostrovsky

Professor of Economics at Stanford GSB

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@JlibDoesEcon Well, if you really believe this, you can make a lot of money. That’s the whole point of prediction markets.

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@lessin I'm going to screenshot this and use it next time I teach my paper on how self-driving cars will lead to increased traffic congestion (https://t.co/HMMTFoG3XA, in particular Section 4).

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@ben_golub @haroldpollack "donating" 😂

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@paulnovosad Toward the end of my stint as an editor, I converged to a similar system. I would give authors a Conditional Accept, where the condition was to include a section with limitations and other good points brought up by the referees but not directly addressed in the paper.

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@arpitrage Grad students should simply get a research budget, and then spend it on whatever they think is best for their research (with compute being one of the options).

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@johnjhorton @_alice_evans @robkhenderson Even that needs to be refined further - I am way past puberty, but my 3-year old has definitely kicked/assaulted more more than once 😂

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@joshgans Well, his best friend is a super-genius who easily solved hard math problems that nobody at MIT could figure out, so some of that brilliance must have rubbed off on Ben.

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@veronica_humble https://t.co/6dQAu7t54G

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@veronica_humble https://t.co/FN75XkvBQ4

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@bgedelman @FakeMarinetti I just thought it was funny that I know someone who fits four out of four red flags mentioned in this random x post :)

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@lessin If you do, make sure they are bone, typeset in Silian Rail.

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My suburban Bay Area neighborhood is not walkable - but at least it is now waymable!

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"As a mathematical discipline travels far from its empirical source, or still more, if it is a second or third generation only indirectly inspired by ideas coming from "reality", it is beset with very grave dangers. It becomes more and more purely aestheticizing, more and more purely l'art pour l'art. This need not be bad, if the field is surrounded by correlated subjects, which still have closer empirical connections, or if the discipline is under the influence of men with an exceptionally well-developed taste. But there is a grave danger that the subject will develop along the line of least resistance, that the stream, so far from its source, will separate into a multitude of insignificant branches, and that the discipline will become a disorganized mass of details and complexities. In other words, at a great distance from its empirical source, or after much "abstract" inbreeding, a mathematical subject is in danger of degeneration." - JvN

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@alexolegimas I’m in Vegas with my family, and we just discussed earlier today how refreshing it is to see all the injury lawyer billboards :)

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@johnjhorton @ModeledBehavior That's an amazing quote on so many levels!

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@KhoaVuUmn It’s a visualization of PE rollups in the dental industry.

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@ben_golub And if the answer is “yes,” and you want to publish in Econometrica, keep iterating.

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@alz_zyd_ Try Lydgate Chocolate from Hawaii if you can find it.