David Lang

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David Lang

David Lang

@DavidLangEcon

Views are my own and do not represent the views of my employer.

Katılım Mayıs 2024
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Zeve Sanderson
Zeve Sanderson@ZeveSanderson·
Had a great time speaking with the brilliant @JerusalemDemsas about our new working paper on age verification laws (with @DavidLangEcon, @BenListyg, @brennahross, Anna M) and what it means for the tech policy landscape WP on OSF: osf.io/z83ev/
The Atlantic@TheAtlantic

Nearly half of U.S. states have passed laws intended to stop kids from viewing porn online. @ZeveSanderson tells @JerusalemDemsas why the policies may actually be backfiring: theatlantic.com/podcasts/archi…

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Brian Heseung Kim
Brian Heseung Kim@brhkim·
Ed researchers, Common App is hiring for a Data Scientist in our Data Operations team! This is a phenomenal fully remote (forever) job to support and enhance one of the most exciting new data resources in higher education (though I'm obviously biased): apply.workable.com/commonapp/j/90…
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David Lang@DavidLangEcon·
A genetic algorithm in excel is probably one of the most useful problem solving tools out there. So many toy problems can be solved that have practical applications.
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David Lang@DavidLangEcon·
Second this. Also don’t confuse your objective with your constraints.
Natalia Emanuel@NataliaHEmanuel

#1 ingredient for a successful job hunt: Job Market Objective Function. Without your own objective function, it’s scarily easy to accidentally adopt someone else’s goals. Clearly, maximizing someone else’s goals means you’re unlikely to reach your true optimal outcome.

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David Lang@DavidLangEcon·
@noah_greifer This sounds awesome. Does it have applications for synthetic controls?
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Noah Greifer
Noah Greifer@noah_greifer·
No one will use this because there aren't good ways to decide which objective function to use, no way to account for uncertainty in the weights, the methods are mostly already available and still underused, and CVXR is memory intensive even for small problems.
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Noah Greifer
Noah Greifer@noah_greifer·
Working on an R package no one asked for that one is going to use. Why? I just think it's neat
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AERA
AERA@AERA_EdResearch·
A new study in @AeraOpen found that gender and intended major are strongly correlated upon college entry and gendered patterns in field of study persist through the undergraduate career. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23…
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