Tim Mensinger

My friend @JanosGabler is hiring an AI researcher / research engineer. If you are interested in teaching and open-source software development in the AI space, you should apply! View the job posting here: appliedai.jobs.personio.de/job/1988672?la… Find his LinkedIn post below👇

🆕 Season of ECORES PhD lectures! 🎓 Today features an insightful presentation by @JacksonmMatt @Stanford on the critical role of networks in economics. These lectures are a joint initiative of @LeuvenEconomics, @ecares_ulb, and @LIDAM_UCLouvain. 🔗 feb.kuleuven.be/phd-lectures

As promised, here are a few more details about why we renamed estimagic to optimagic and what it means for users: tinyurl.com/optimagic-rena…

Fixed effect estimation just like using the fixest R package, but in Python!! I really enjoyed @s3alfisc presentation at this years @EuroSciPy of his pyfixest package. If you need to run (high-dimensional) fixed effect regressions in Python, be sure to check it out (link below)

My favorite talk this year! @optimagic is a wrapper library that provides a common API to around 60 opzimizers implemented in Python. Particularly enjoyed how much thought & effort the package authors (@JanosGabler & @MensingerTim) put into designing a user friendly API!

estimagic is now optimagic! 🎉✨ In addition to a new name, we have many new features.🚀 Stay tuned for updates in the next few days. 🔜📅

@deliprao slidev

I want to look beyond Google slides for talks. What are the cool kids using these days? Beamer people will be reported.

Check out my new working paper joint with my amazing coauthors @JanosGabler, Sebastian Gsell, and Mariam Petrosyan! We propose a new optimization algorithm that works particularly well for problems that arise during method of simulated moments estimation.

"How Gender Role Attitudes Shape Maternal Labor Supply" by @c_zimpelmann and @MensingerTim is now available: crctr224.de/research/discu… Interview with @c_zimpelmann is now available: crctr224.de/newsroom/inter…

@just_cameron Fair

@MensingerTim The problem is that, even with these, it is an absolute nightmare trying to figure out what is happening.

Dude, fuck pip. I'm so god damn mad right now. What an absolute fucking dumpster fire.

Announcing uv: an extremely fast Python package installer and resolver, written in Rust. uv is designed as a drop-in alternative to pip, pip-tools, and virtualenv. With a warm cache, uv installs are near-instant. Here, it's > 75x faster than pip and pip-tools.

@larsweisbrod Falls du auch ein minimales Theorieverständis suchst kann ich mir vorstellen, dass Sec. 1 & 2 aus mixtape.scunning.com für dich passen könnten. Ist jetzt nicht super rigoros, aber sollte für einen Start erstmal reichen. Und es hat auch genügend Anwendungsbeispiele mit Code.

Gibt es ein Buch oder meinetwegen online-Videos mit denen ich es schaffe mir regressionsanalyse beizubringen? Habe allerdings kaum Vorkenntnisse, alles aus dem Mathe LK vergessen. Oder muss ich dann eher eine Stufe vorher anfangen und wo wäre das?

JMP 🧵🎉 What drives maternal labor supply - a key factor for labor market inequalities? Gender role attitudes! We use reduced form and structural methods to show that they are of first-order importance, both directly and through the mediation of policies (w/ @MensingerTim)

This post’s first comment is one of the best and most thorough distinctions between R and Python I’ve read reddit.com/r/datascience/…

@remilouf No problem, as long as you’re fine with hearing a lot about vim

TW: You’re likely going to hear a lot about emacs.

Come contribute to @AesaraDevs instead, you might suffer but we provide mentoring for those willing to learn

Susan Athey on the dialogue between theory and empirics in economics: