Jason Doctor
@jasndoc.bsky.social
People have done worse.
April 11, 2025 at 2:04 AM
People have done worse.
Live picture of Trump showing his cross-modality matching tariff results where he was asked to adjust the brightness of a light and loudness of a pure tone to generate power functions that would set the tariffs.
April 9, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Live picture of Trump showing his cross-modality matching tariff results where he was asked to adjust the brightness of a light and loudness of a pure tone to generate power functions that would set the tariffs.
It is annoying that this point is not well understood. Here is a simple example.
March 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
It is annoying that this point is not well understood. Here is a simple example.
Your effects are not synergistic because your scales are ordinal.
February 6, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Your effects are not synergistic because your scales are ordinal.
Name a paper that was *way* ahead of its time. For me, it is this one. This man, working entirely on his own with almost no field existing yet . He understood things so deep and well.
January 29, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Name a paper that was *way* ahead of its time. For me, it is this one. This man, working entirely on his own with almost no field existing yet . He understood things so deep and well.
Let´s go back to these regional categories
January 19, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Let´s go back to these regional categories
How it started. How it’s going.
January 8, 2025 at 5:38 AM
How it started. How it’s going.
Better than Smith or Marx. Lots of game theory and suboptimal Nash equilibria.
January 7, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Better than Smith or Marx. Lots of game theory and suboptimal Nash equilibria.
I took the train from LA to Raton, New Mexico, 22 hours. No sleeping car. Loved it.
January 3, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I took the train from LA to Raton, New Mexico, 22 hours. No sleeping car. Loved it.
Though it can write a coherent essay, ask an LLM to list all US states that have the letter "r" and it will produce something like this. So we can't surmise a correct answer from this simple question from a more complex one.
December 16, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Though it can write a coherent essay, ask an LLM to list all US states that have the letter "r" and it will produce something like this. So we can't surmise a correct answer from this simple question from a more complex one.
This looks like one of those situations where they wrote "46-86" and the journal came back and said "we don't allow hyphens for references".🙃
December 15, 2024 at 5:05 AM
This looks like one of those situations where they wrote "46-86" and the journal came back and said "we don't allow hyphens for references".🙃
It is crazy that we complain about daylight savings differences when between the late 1500s and the mid 1700s you could lose 10 days simply by going from France to England.
December 3, 2024 at 5:55 PM
It is crazy that we complain about daylight savings differences when between the late 1500s and the mid 1700s you could lose 10 days simply by going from France to England.
The bad intuition that risk aversion for small stakes gambles implies reasonable levels of risk aversion for stakes gambles.
November 17, 2024 at 6:17 PM
The bad intuition that risk aversion for small stakes gambles implies reasonable levels of risk aversion for stakes gambles.
Snapped a few days ago.
September 23, 2023 at 2:37 AM
Snapped a few days ago.