Into data before it was big. Keeping the world safe both from folks armed with pivot tables and people trained to detect cats at scale. Shallow learning champ.
Oakland, CA
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Hot Take: It's not great when people ask econometrics and programming questions here. While they get great advice from smart people, those answers are usually lost to posterity, given the recency bias and poor search on Twitter. This means the same questions come up repeatedly.
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San Francisco progressives represented by supervisor @JackieFielder_ blocked housing on an empty lot of standing drain water for a decade.
After nearly ten years of being a vacant lot, 181 new homes are finally approved at 22nd & Mission thanks to some new state laws. The NIMBY era is over, long live growth! growsf.org/news/2025-05-16-2…
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PSA: there is a very good email, which I feel is unlikely to be legitimate, that targets quirks in Superhuman and an economic arrangement with a startup-adjacent vendor that very many founders are likely to have, attempting to get one to click on a link.
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It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS, indeterminate dendritic cell histiocytosis or other (non-LCH) histiocytic sarcomas cases.
I'm trying to understand non-surgical chemo and targeted therapy options, new pathology markers to better diagnose subtypes/treatments, and any data on progression in pediatric patients. Please feel free to share – I’m trying to cast a wide net due to the rarity of this condition and how little is known.
People can contact me directly at my first name (as written in my profile) at octant.bio.
“A hamper is undoubtedly requisite under the present circumstances. It must contain several pots of superior jam.” — Lord Curzon, aged 9, writing from school
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Considering a graduate degree but need more experience first? Come work with me on socially impactful, frontier research at Stanford!
Interested in preparing for a Ph.D. by doing socially impactful research at the intersection of social science, data science, and AI? Come work with Professor @Susan_Athey as a pre-doctoral Research Fellow in the @GSBsiLab!
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As a commitment device to never patronize @Walgreens again, I promise to give $100 to anyone who spots me inside one while engaged in a purchase for myself. The reward is limited to one per sighting based on the first capture. Happy hunting!
Are you interested in a career as an economist in industry, government, or consulting? NABE's Econ Career Week is next month. Registration and the schedule are below.
More info here: conta.cc/3WAa6Ln
Twitter algo doubling down on @dieworkwear! Almost every post of his on my feed is duplicated.
“Here I am, bald at last. So much the better! What use to me was hair? It was not exactly an ornament, and I was the natural victim of all barbers, an ignoble breed, who exhaled into my face their disdain, or caressed me like a mistress, or patted my cheek like a parish priest.”
John and team are building some cool and useful survey tech:
Looking for a Python developer - job description & application link here: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
I once asked him: ‘What beliefs does your thermostat have?’ And he said: ‘My thermostat has three beliefs — it’s too hot in here, it’s too cold in here, and it’s just right in here.’
