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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
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Yale SOM professor & Bulls fan. I study consumer finance, and econometrics is a big part of my research identity. He/him/his

Economics 47%
Mathematics 9%

Looks super cool. I signed up for the waiting list, excited to learn more about it.

The bitterest lesson:

"Rich Sutton’s incompleteideas.net/Inc… states that compute beats algorithms.

My experience is that Sutton’s bitter lesson is the tip of an iceberg of bitterer lessons: beyond compute and algorithms, there’s data and even picking the right task to do ML on."
The Bitterest Lesson - TypeSafe AI Blog
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This is an extremely cool teachign example
There’s a lot of doom & gloom around how AI is affecting higher education.

To a certain extent, I get it. AI is making some things harder.

But I’ve found that AI has in some ways greatly enhanced my teaching.

For one, it’s opened up applied activities that weren’t possible before.

One example: 🧵
There’s a lot of doom & gloom around how AI is affecting higher education.

To a certain extent, I get it. AI is making some things harder.

But I’ve found that AI has in some ways greatly enhanced my teaching.

For one, it’s opened up applied activities that weren’t possible before.

One example: 🧵

Thanks Jo!

if you wanted to get at the amount for the 0.1 percent, you'd do the top 1 percent minus the 99-99.9 percent

yes, although the data source for the billionaires is forbes and the rest come from the distributional accounts.

Agreed! Inspired me to read more on this
New post reviewing Zidar and Zwick's new book, which I loved.

paulgp.substack.com/p/who-is-ric...
Who is rich in America, and why?
A review of “The Everywhere Millionaire” by Zidar and Zwick
paulgp.substack.com

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