Ananay Agarwal

we are losing the brightest minds of our generation to MBAs. everyday i wake up and a former marx enjoyer tells me they’re applying to HBS

10 Excellent Econ Papers & Speeches 1) Equality of What? Amartya Sen Sen's ability to synthesise economics and philosophy is beautifully demonstrated here, outlining various approaches to equality and his own "capability approach". Definitely worth a read. ophi.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

My take on the elections results. Competitive welfarism leaves to undifferentiation of parties in that regard. m.economictimes.com/opinion/et-com…

LAMP Fellowship 2024-25 If you are interested to learn about parliament, policy, and politics, do apply for this fellowship. One of the few opportunities in India to work with a Member of Parliament (MP) Deadline: December 23, 2023 Link to apply: shorturl.at/ANUZ8

The Day is finally here! Applications for the LAMP Fellowship 2024-25 are now open. Apply for an exciting opportunity to work with MPs and learn about Parliament, policy, and politics. Link to apply: shorturl.at/ANUZ8 Deadline: December 23, 2023

We are excited to announce a thrilling opportunity for all economics and policy enthusiasts to work as a Research Assistant for our podcast! Send in your CV and a short paragraph on how you are a good fit for this role to be considered.

Studying at Sciences Po vs La Sorbonne

Development economics has gradually become dominated by the idea that 'microinterventions' will solve global poverty. It's a dangerous idea because, well, it doesn't solve global poverty. In this article in the FT, David Pilling (@davidpilling) criticises this idea really well. He rightly argues that the route out of poverty is not through micro-entrepreneurship, smallholder farming, or microfinance. It's through large-scale job creation, business development, and productivity growth. ft.com/content/90b13a…

Remembering the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the first individual to be awarded two Nobel Prizes and still today the only individual with two Nobel Prizes in two different scientific categories: Marie Skłodowska Curie. Curie was born #OnThisDay in 1867.

Are you an Econ PhD student based out of India ? Do you want an opportunity to present and get detailed feedback from faculty members? Then apply to SERI- D Conference 2023. Go to seri.network and submit. Last date 8th Nov. #EconTwitter

If you're thinking about applying to foreign universities for Master's and PhD and you need guidance about navigating SoP and scholarship applications, do not hesitate to reach out to me. #HigherEducation #education #studyabroad #Scholarship

ChatGPT may create fake citations and produce inaccurate information. But with Custom Instructions, you can make it give you real citations. Below are the Custom Instructions that will turn your ChatGPT into a reliable research assistant. Simply copy and paste them in ChatGPT. Box 1: What would you like ChatGPT to know about you to provide better responses? Introduction: I am an [experienced academic /scientist] with a PhD in [comparative literature]. I work as a [postdoc] at the [name of your university]. Research Interests: My current research project looks at [details about your project]. I also teach undergraduate and graduate courses on [details about the courses you teach]. In the past, I have published work on [a few details about your published work]. You: You are going to act as my research assistant. You will help me with brainstorming research questions, simplifying complex topics, mock peer review, and polishing academic prose. You will help me with critiquing drafts of the papers I am working on. You will also engage with me in a Socratic dialog and challenge my opinions so that I am aware of any blind spots I may have. Based on our conversations, you will suggest new and exciting directions that I can develop my work in. Box 2: How would you like ChatGPT to respond? You will respond like an academic colleague. Any claims, opinions, or figures that you cite in your responses must be cited with reference to an authentic and published source. You will never make up any sources of your own. If you are unsure about a source, you will say that you don’t know. You will never say you are an AI model since I already know that. Repeating it is a waste of both time and resources. Your responses should be clear and precise, and you will never use more words than are necessary. You will always be very economical with words, but you will not compromise on clarity and precision of your answers. You will follow my instructions strictly. If I ask you to limit your answer to two sentences, your answer must be two sentences only.

Differential geometers:

I know people are excited by LLMs. They are miraculous despite their issues. But what I constantly have to remind people is that almost everything that runs actual really serious stuff - courts, hospitals - is linear and logistic regression, with variants. Period.

The Department is inviting applications for THREE new positions of assistant professor (tenure track). Join our dedicated, collaborative, innovative research & teaching team! Deadline: November 13th, midnight UTC All the info: tinyurl.com/3kbsrfyk @ScPoResearch @sciencespo

Development economics deserves its own @xkcd meme:

Computer scientist: The p-value was 0.10, so I tweaked the model until it achieved a p-value of 0.03. Statistician: But… that’s p-hacking! Computer scientist: No, no, no! In our field, it’s called “alignment.” I didn’t like the output, so I applied a bit of RLHF until I did.

Computer scientist: We applied a non-linear sigmoid transformation to the weights in our machine learning model. Statistician: 👀 Computer scientist: 👀 Statistician: So you did a logistic regression? Computer scientist: Yes.

An Econ PhD is useful?