Computational social scientist doing math for a better world. But I mostly use Twitter for one-liners. Masto: @b@xoxo.zone
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Last January, I noticed something peculiar in my 2yo’s bedroom that - after a year of obsessive reporting - led me to a profound cosmic revelation about what’s even possible in our universe. A 🧵.
ALT The moon with a rocket landed in its eye. The most iconic shot of 1902 sci-fi film Le Voyage Dans La Lune.
[1/9, but lots of interesting info, plus a new paper alert] A typical "corporation" isn't really a single entity, but a collection of independent business entities. There are 2 million entities in the USA, forming a network of owners/subs. It's a wild network.
#EconTwitter
[8/9] It's not often that you have a more-or-less law of nature with a well-defined, measurable
parameter. Here's my paper going into great detail on this simple point: arxiv.org/abs/2401.12118
The #1 thing I got out of a few weeks in Japan: how much everything changes when street parking isn't a thing.
In the 1700s, the British imposed their religious rituals and beliefs on their American subjects—but no more! Today, on Independence Day, we celebrate freedom from the Imperial system!
ALT A gallon/pint/quart/&c/&c/&c conversion chart that seems designed to look like the Sefirot diagram.
If you didn't read our article about the origins of agent-based modeling because of the paywall, let's see if this link works: nytimes.com/2023/05/08/obitu…
This, and the whole Overlooked series has been so interesting.
nytimes.com/spotlight/overlo…
I love it when nerds get their due. Here's a piece about the person who designed and ran the first agent-based model---with a checkerboard, in his dissertation about his time in Japanese-American internment camps.
nytimes.com/2023/05/08/obitu…
#selfpromotion
You know how Mastodon accounts are really ActivityPub nodes, which can interact with any other ActivityPub node? Same for WordPress sites: wordpress.com/blog/2023/03/1…
I'm increasingly exhausted by news efforts to imply financial or macro disaster. Here's a grim looking plot from the NYT showing the market tanking. But check the timestamps: the S&P is back to its level mid-morning yesterday, about where it was on the 9th, pre-SBV's collapse.
Havana Syndrome is back in the news. The leading theory is that it's caused by the bite of a certain lizard: the Havana gila.
washingtonpost.com/national-…
One of the pitches for BTC is that it has low correlation with traditional investments, but here's BTC versus TQQQ, an ETF whose daily return is 3x the NASDAQ return. In the last year, they've tracked closely. BTC isn't a hedge for your stock portfolio, it's tripling down.
ALT A stock price chart for TQQQ vs BTC, as described.