Watching Gen Z start to hate on Gen Alpha
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Matt Blackwell
@matt_blackwell
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Associate Professor of Government at Harvard. Data, statistics, politics. He/him/his
My current rough clustering:
Mastodon is for technical nerds
Bluesky is for nontechnical nerds
Twitter is for news-y normies
Threads is for celeb-y normies
@siracusa @atpfm in case you hadn’t seen this, the Ford CEO got pretty honest about the legacy software problem for car companies. Though it might be if interest given past discussions about car software (sorry for TikTok link) https://www.tiktok.com/@howtoactuallyinvest/video/7242358818561101098?_t=8d0ULQzRx5K&_r=1
Interesting that Apple is embracing “AI” algorithms like the transformer but not using the AI label.
Very helpful/clarifying note from one editor of JASA on the difference between "Applications and Case Studies" papers vs "Theory and Methods" papers https://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01621459.2023.2173458
A recent, careful study came out in the AER showing that the Facebook rollout to colleges hurt mental health. So I looked at the aggregate data to see if this showed up in overall trends and there’s nothing!
By 2008 FB is open to the public but no change in aggregate outcomes
If I could give a single piece of advice to new PhD students (in poli sci at least): work as hard as you can to write a complete, submittable solo research article by the time you start your 3rd year.
Even if it is never published, the experience you get is insanely helpful
Danny HidalgoCambridge folks interested in fighting for more housing in our city and state should come for FREE food and drinks at Lamplighter (by Lechmere T station) next Thursday (3/30) at 6:30pm! Details here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cambridges-2023-housing-action-social-tickets-585791798037
