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Didn’t expect Ben Affleck to have the most articulate and realistic explanation where video models and Hollywood is going

Jori Lallo “Craft is knowing how to work. Art is knowing when to stop” daaamn Affleck hittin BARS

Jori Lallo Agree!

All of government is now a reality show. Trump picks Mehmet Oz to serve as Medicare and Medicaid services administrator washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

Exciting Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) news! news.mit.edu/2024/mit-tuiti…

Stanford RegLab is hiring predoctoral Research Fellows! RegLab has been a wonderful place for work spanning AI ML/NLP/policy to real world impact, successfully working with government organizations. It’s a place to apply technical skills to new areas. linkedin.com/posts/reglab_s…

I'm seeing an increasing number of grad school applicants who *do not* waive their right to access their recommendation letters. I've advised & been advised that you should always waive as it makes letters more credible. Are students no longer receiving this advice? Am I wrong?

Model solves for new U.S. consumer prices for all products. Here are products with US price increases >2%, up to 13%. Lots of industrial inputs & food products, unsurprisingly given CAN/MEX/PRC imports. 2/3

Calling young applied microeconomists: come hang out at Princeton for a few days in March for a great conference! Papers due Dec. 22. irs.princeton.edu/news/2024/nlse… #Econtwitter

There seems to be a debate on Twitter about the value of high skilled immigration in the US So here's a bit of data in case that's useful If you're hospitalized and your physician graduated from a foreign medical school? You are LESS likely to die than if your physician

By the way, foreign medical graduates are also WAY more likely to Practice in rural areas Practice in other underserved areas And go into primary care So yes, they are filling a critical need And they are good too

Most popular destination for 25+ college educated movers: New York City (6.1%) Washington, D.C. (3.5%) Dallas (3.2%) Atlanta (2.9%) cc Conor Sen Denver (2.4%) Chicago (2.4%) Los Angeles (2.4%) Boston (2.2%) SF (2.1%) Houston (2.1%)

Congrats to Daniel Rock, Erik Brynjolfsson and others from Workhelix. This is an excellent example of translating academic research into practice. I am excited to see what the future holds for Workhelix!

Heartiest congratulations to the WorkHelix team!!! For companies navigating the world of GenAI deployments, you couldn’t ask for better guides. Can’t wait to hear more!

Excited to announce I am joining Oregon State University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Economics starting Fall 2025. Thank you to my colleagues, coauthors, and friends across UAA, the UC system, and RFF. Looking forward to the rain and trees in the PNW.

New paper! Despite recent advances in reasoning models and LLM scaffolding for particular use cases, we don't have estimates for how these new tools are impacting worker productivity. We did an RCT to measure these impacts with junior associate level legal work tasks.

Are you PhD student interested in AI/ML & economics? Apply to the Machine Learning in Economics Summer Institute at Chicago Booth, Aug 7-13. Two-part program includes lectures from experts + 2-day conference on cutting-edge research. Deadline March 28, plz RT. Link in reply.

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.