A Dismal Optimist

THE chief economist. undergrad studying the reflected-sound-of-underground-spirits. “neoliberal sociopath” and "market idolator"

[Nonfon🌐 @Nonfon420]

@PositivistWitch @SRamirez68083 larpcel til you truecel

[A Dismal Optimist @yah5us]

If you gaze too long into the metrics abyss… calamities, disasters, tragedies, etc all fade away, until all you can see are “quasi random experiments” and “exogenous variation”

[Alex Godofsky @AlexGodofsky]

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the retweets are not to the correct, nor the dunks to the stupid, neither yet followers to the witty, nor yet bannings to rulebreakers, nor yet blue checks to men of distinction; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

[A Dismal Optimist @yah5us]

@sharmaeconomics

[A Dismal Optimist @yah5us]

@Wolvi_666 long left tail

[A Dismal Optimist @yah5us]

POV: econometrics lecturer watching the undergrads present their findings

[Ana Ceballos @anaceballos_]

President Trump unexpectedly called press into the Oval Office to talk about the reflecting pool project.

Minutes later, he holds up this chart:

[Alexander Kustov @akoustov]

I'm increasingly convinced that a lot of smart academics are confused about AI because most of their worst experiences with it come from the classroom. But professors play two roles and are also supposed to spread knowledge.

In class, we test whether students learned something themselves. Sure, test them and do oral exams. That's what I'm planning to do as well. But in journals, we should publish true, original, important claims, whether AI-assisted or not.

[A Dismal Optimist @yah5us]

@40yoap I have bad news…

[A Dismal Optimist @yah5us]

Guys I’m a bald 2’ green blob with no degree or capital that caused the fall of the Roman Empire and the Black Death, is it over for me?

[A Dismal Optimist @yah5us]

Bro is a baller

[𝔐𝔽𝓩 @mean_field_zane]

how bad of a photo of me is this?

[A Dismal Optimist @yah5us]

Internet economics is quite similar

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

There's a way of engaging with philosophy that amounts to just learning the positions espoused by a variety of historical figures without paying much attention to the arguments for and against those positions. I can't think of a less interesting approach to the history of ideas.

[A Dismal Optimist @yah5us]

@PAHoyeck I once went by Phil on discord, so I concur

[A Dismal Optimist @yah5us]

Petition to bar people from having opinions

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

Petition to bar people who only understand one language from having opinions about translations.

[A Dismal Optimist @yah5us]

@follynomics @SRamirez68083 are you just gonna let him get away with that?

[critter @BecomingCritter]

"dating out of your league" isn't real. dating is a marketplace. it's called price discovery. your value is whatever clears the market

[A Dismal Optimist @yah5us]

“Why didn’t you submit your homework on time?”
“Corner solutions are rarely optimal.”
“It says here you attended less than half of the lectures. Why?”
“Corner solutions are rarely optimal.”
“You did not appear for your maths final. Why?”
“Corner solutions are rarely optimal.”

[Elephant_Frog @elephant_ben]

Statista is the evil version of OurWorldinData, so many things that should be easy to access blocked.

[A Dismal Optimist @yah5us]

@HayekianBanker @kaptenblu my descendants will have to sell themselves just to pay off this generational aura debt

[A Dismal Optimist @yah5us]

Tried to ask my metrics prof some questions about my model on two hours of sleep. All knowledge about my model specifications and metrics in general fled my mind the moment I opened my mouth. Do not recommend