José A. Herce 🇺🇦

La política española da pena. Si al menos fuesen ilustrados… PRO REPVBLICA EST DVM LVDERE VIDEMVR

User DT rule that criminal insider formation activity is the standard. He and his cronies are behind filling their pockets. Once and again. Seemingly, that’s the way to MAGA.

And the way it runs its defense.

This is a New York City newsstand in the 1930s Genuine question: why no overweight people?

… Esto mio hoy en @bbvajubilacion bbvamijubilacion.es/blog/impuestos…

Los jubilados (y muchas otras personas) se quejan de que cuando pagan el #Impuesto sobre la Renta por sus #pensiones de jubilación y afines, están sufriendo una doble imposición. No lo están, pero ¿deberían los reguladores considerar desgravar las pensiones? …

Is AI the biggest change in education since the printing press? Yes. This weekend, I decided to learn about the life and work of Erving Goffman purely out of personal interest. Goffman was one of the most influential sociologists of the 20th century and a professor at Penn. I had a few free hours after a tough week of travel and work, and thought it might be a good distraction. I asked Claude to prepare a study plan based on my professional background, prior knowledge, and the hours I had available: an introduction to Goffman’s life and work, selections from his best and most influential writings, and an examination of his impact on social theory. The plan was outstanding. A top expert on Goffman would likely have done better. A 90th percentile real professor of sociology would not have, or at least not without serious effort. As I read The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (complete) and Asylums and Stigma (selections), I could ask Claude for clarification, connections to the wider literature, and links to material I already knew. The Q&A and the exploration of collateral ideas were so good that I ended up spending much more time than I anticipated. Last night I had to force myself to go to bed. Did Claude get everything right? Perhaps not, but neither do I in my own graduate seminars. Even in my areas of top expertise, I often do not answer students’ questions precisely or correctly. One should not compare Claude to the perfect professor but to a real one. And every answer I could verify (I checked many) was at least a solid A-. Am I an expert on Goffman now? Of course not. But I would say I am now familiar with an important thinker at the level a regular master’s course on modern sociological theory would produce in the week it dedicates to him. Doing the same work using Google alone would have taken much longer. I know because I have undertaken similar projects with other thinkers in the past. One had to spend considerably more time before reaching the core of the contribution. I can now imagine someone designing self-learning courses in many fields that are better than what you can get outside the very top universities, at close to zero marginal cost. Where does that leave a normal university? I do not know. But colleagues in departments that want to stop the spread of AI are deluding themselves. This type of technology does not come once a century. It comes once a millennium.

@dfuentescastro Lo que pasa es que si la sanidad española fuese tan mala como la educación estaríamos todos muertos.

📉 Sin entrar en causalidades que desconozco, esto se corresponde con mi percepción en la universidad. Y no, no es la manida queja de 'es que los jóvenes de hoy, patatas'. Pasa algo.

@lukestegemann @cultrun Carducho’s paintings at El Paular’s Cloisters are mind blowing. The site itself is an obligued visit. Very often Gregorian chant is sung at special celebrations and anniversaries. It’s one of my favorite places in Madrid region.

On Instagram I received a message from an Australian reader. Inspired by my biography of Madrid, he made a special trip to the monastery at El Paular to see the Vicente Carducho paintings in the cloisters. I couldn't be happier or prouder to help promote such cultural treasures.

@ari_camino Va incluso más allá. Y es peor. Es un brindis al sol con graves problemas sobrevenidos y una forma de cargarse aquello que se blinda.

@_Herce Blindar las cosas que hay que pagar con dinero contante parece más fetichismo que otra cosa.

Y después de esto blindamos los salarios en la Constitución, y luego el precio de las porras y por fin los márgenes empresariales. Y cuanto antes mejor, a ver si se quiebra el país de una vez, que ya estamos tardando. 65ymas.com/economia/pensi… 65ymas.com/economia/pensi…

@troconiz_javier Ah, claro, y a mí too!

@_Herce Pues a mí que me blinden la salud, el cariño de los míos y el buen tiempo cuando voy de vacaciones

I am very happy that my survey paper, "Deep Learning for Solving Economic Models," is forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Literature (pending final replication checks, which should be quick). The paper benefited greatly from the editor, David Romer, five referees, and many friends who read earlier versions. I believe the result is a solid introduction to the field, though in 48 pages, there is only so much one can do. So, I created a companion webpage: sas.upenn.edu/%7Ejesusfv/dee… where you can find the paper, the code, and some slide decks with my teaching material. My plan is to expand the slides over time, adding new material and updating them as new results appear. I will probably do a thorough revision once the spring semester is over. Those who follow my feed know that I think deep learning is the most fundamental change to computational economics in the last 40 years. I am by now convinced it is more important than the development of Markov chain Monte Carlo methods in the early 1990s or the introduction of projection and perturbation methods in the 1980s. To find a comparable shift, one would probably need to go back to Richard Bellman's invention of value function iteration in 1957. More pointedly, we need to redesign the Ph.D. in economics. Not at the margin. From the ground up. Economists can either fully embrace the deep learning revolution or become irrelevant, as has already happened, I would dare say, to some fields in academia that refused to accept reality. Finally, let me apologize to everyone working in this area whom I could not cite. Space was a binding constraint. And yes, this post was written with the considerable help of AI. There is nothing I am prouder of than the fact that AI is now an integral part of every step I take in my professional life.

"Experimentos sociales históricos, como los kibutz israelíes de principios del siglo XX, intentaron eliminar completamente los roles de género. Inicialmente, hombres y mujeres realizaban el mismo trabajo, y los niños se criaban comunalmente. Sin embargo, con el tiempo, las mujeres se inclinaron hacia la crianza de hijos y tareas menos extenuantes, mientras que los hombres asumieron roles físicamente exigentes o de liderazgo. Las madres rechazaron la crianza comunal, los matrimonios se formalizaron y las unidades familiares privadas resurgieron. Los antropólogos observaron que estos cambios surgieron no de la dominación masculina, sino de las propias preferencias de las mujeres." aporiamagazine.com/p/the-biologic…

Me duele mucho ver a la derecha tan enloquecida y paranoica. Entiendo que el sanchismo ha hecho mucho daño. Decir que el rey Felipe VI tiene un discurso leyendanegrista es un disparate. Fue educado por Carmen Iglesias (la actual directora de la RAH, que jamás ha comprado la Leyenda Negra). Vean este fragmento de hace no mucho.

Se querrá hacer creer que el empobrecimiento estructural de la clase media en España tiene que ver con la guerra en Irán, con la guerra en Ucrania, con la pandemia... Pero algún día la ciudadanía se dará cuenta de la verdad. No, todo eso solo agravó una situación de desidia absoluta con la vivienda y de salarios estancados. El problema es la ausencia de proyecto de país a largo plazo y de ir parcheando la situación. Y de que la alternativa, pronto se verá, tampoco lo es.

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC. May God bless America.

@joekent16jan19 @migsebastiang You’re a brave and right man Sir.

@JesusFerna7026 Qué razón llevaba sobre las parameras de Adorno y Habernas. Lunáticos es poco.

I must admit that, among all the thinkers I admired when I was 20, none has fallen further in my estimation than Karl Popper. I will leave aside his contributions to the philosophy of science and speak only about The Open Society and Its Enemies. My admiration for that book was pure ideological alignment. I agreed with the conclusions and did not look too carefully at how they were reached. As I grew older and learned more, the flaws became harder to ignore. The treatment of Plato is a caricature. The treatment of Hegel is worse. The treatment of Marx is the most readable section, but only because Popper happened to know more about economics than about Greek philosophy. Eric Voegelin, in a letter to Leo Strauss, put it better than I could: “Popper is philosophically so uncultured, so fully a primitive ideological brawler that he is not able even approximately to reproduce correctly the contents of one page of Plato. Reading is of no use to him; he is too lacking in knowledge to understand what the authors say. Briefly and in sum: Popper’s book is a scandal without extenuating circumstances; in its intellectual attitude it is the typical product of a failed intellectual; spiritually one would have to use expressions like rascally, impertinent, loutish; in terms of technical competence, as a piece in the history of thought, it is dilettantish, and, as a result, is worthless.” europeanconservative.com/articles/essay… Voegelin’s language is severe. But read Popper’s chapter on Plato and then read the Republic, and you will find it hard to disagree. The recently circulated letter in which Popper denounces Adorno and Habermas to Prof. Aron, calling Habermas “untalented,” only confirms the picture. You do not have to agree with Habermas or Adorno to see that they were serious thinkers who tackled important issues. Habermas spent decades exploring how public discourse can support legitimate institutions. Adorno, regardless of his politics, recognized something about the link between mass culture and individual judgment that has only become more relevant since he wrote. I disagree with much of what both of them concluded, but debating serious thinkers is always productive. Dismissing them, as Popper did, is not acceptable. Popper disliked that Adorno and Habermas leaned to the left, so he denounced them. That is not philosophy. That is the behavior Voegelin described.

@EsterMunoz85 Sra Muñoz, esto es todo lo que da Vd. de sí? No vamos bien.

Hoy el PSOE tiene su cierre de campaña y han llamado a lo mejor de cada casa. - El yerno de Sabiniano, Pedro Sánchez - El ministro de Hodio, negligencias varias y mentiras, Puente - Y también llevan a José Luis, el amigo de las dictaduras al que sacan cuando les conviene crispar

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