Saturday morning links

Lots of links, so little time, as I start my workshop in about 20 minutes. But here enjoy! Random stuff as always.

“Using Multiple Outcomes to Improve Synthetic Controls” by Sophie Sun, Eli Ben-Michael and Avi Feller. Apologies if I posted this already.

I get these constantly on google news, and I’m not sure why. I think they are maybe AI generated but I like them. “6 Tiny Habits Couples Use to Keep Their Great Love Alive”. They are:

1. Both individuals do inner work to reconcile and release their core relationship wounds and negative beliefs

2. Both individuals practice accepting themselves and their partner

3. The couple engages in physical touch (releasing the love hormone oxytocin or vasopressin)

4. Each person freely offers words of affirmation to each other

5. The couple creates quality time together

6. Each person freely offers acts of service to their partner and the world without the need for a “payback”.

Kevin Roose at the NYT reports on the unfair treatment Tik-Tok is getting in Washington, but notes the company is probably its own worst enemy too. I deleted mine a long time ago when my friend in the State department point blank told me I had malware on my phone.

This 2002 Subaru Outback has ~40k miles on it and I’m just going to maybe snipe on it at the end unless it goes too high for my daughter.

Introducing Devin, the first software engineer. I think we are in the future a lot sooner than we thought we’d be.

Berk Ozler at the World Bank on the notoriously long times to publishing in economics.

This substack interview with Steve Levitt was LIT. Read the transcript. He’s retiring. I have always been a big fan. People complain about the coding errors in his abortion-crime paper, but the only reason those were found is because he freely shared his data back in the day the no one did. He was criticized ruthlessly after the book’s success but kept a cool head, low ego. A lot to love. Finished MIT in 3 years because the moment he got there, he prioritized writing papers over doing well in classes.

Episode 28. Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics co-author and University of Chicago Economics Professor) on His Career And Decision To Retire From Academic Economics

“Optimization Consciousness” Econometrics Summer School at Chicago.

The aim of the Summer school is to equip graduate students with tools to carry forefront research at the intersection of optimization and econometrics.

The OCE Summer school will be held on the University of Chicago campus June 3-6, 2024, and students are expected to likewise attend the OCE Conference on June 7-8, 2024.

Students may apply for full funding to support accommodations and travel. Please contact event organizer Guillaume Pouliot with any questions at guillaumepouliot@uchicago.edu.

Apparently the new iOS upgrade is good for keeping your phone from being hacked — which probably means mine has been hacked a hundred times before.

TLDR of this Tiktok video is that the reason people get canceled online isn’t because of what they said or did but how they responded to what people said when they said what they did. Probably didn’t help my case, in other words, when I had a complete emotional breakdown online, but that’s a sunk cost and I’m moving on. Plus, being afraid of getting cancelled is likely itself really the thing that needs a TikTok.