Laksonomics

lo tau negara ini banyak masalah adalah saat yg beginian koordinasinya di twitter.

I put together a short practical guide for economists who want to use Claude Code, but who haven't gotten around to trying yet. The goal is to reduce the start-up costs by using Claude Code within VS Code.

Submit your research papers using AI to address social science questions to the annual AI in Social Science conference at the Univ. of Chicago! Deadline on May 1! bfi.uchicago.edu/events/event/2… @BeckerFriedman @CAAI_Booth @MiiELab @alexolegimas @ChenhaoTan

“China’s relatively high level of investment is not a sign of distortion or imbalance, but rather one of the main reasons the country has sustained rapid long-term growth.” Provocative piece by @ywang2005b, former World Bank senior economist: bu.edu/gdp/2026/03/27…

this is so well written

Industrial policies, global imbalances, and technological hegemony Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi @AmbrogioCB @bankofengland, Andrea Ferrero @APFerrero @OxfordEconDept, Luca Fornaro @LucaFornaro3 @CREIResearch, Martin Wolf @mw_econ @HSGStGallen ow.ly/iQlM50YzyBT

.@AnthropicAI has released a 3 page memo explaining how economists add value to this rising firm. I have incorporated what I learned from this memo into my paper; "Will AI Improve Undergraduate Economics Education?" drive.google.com/file/d/1VYbNd_…

ever been here? open overleaf → write a paragraph → "hmm...this needs a citation" → open 15 different tabs → skim 8 abstracts → find the 1 actually relevant paper → format bibtex → paste it back on overleaf if so, i built a plugin just for you. meet openleaf: → reads your paper paragraph by paragraph → searches major academic databases → filters out irrelevant papers using ai → one click to add BibTeX to your .bib you'll also find the 🤝 friendly and 🔥 fire reviewers there. i don't think i need to tell you what they do :) free. open source. no account. no data collection. works with ollama, openrouter, openai api and more. github.com/demfier/openle… dear algorithm, please show this to my fellow researchers in need 🙏 #overleaf #latex #opensource #academictwitter

I'm testing out/tweaking PDF reading skills for academic papers pretty cool to see that Codex desktop app can show me images and markdown all inline imo best agentic coding experience for almost all users right now (not just because of this)

yeah fair point. i was matching on recovering different styles of latex tables, you can see those benchmarks here github.com/aniketpanjwani… underlying assumption is that having accurate text versions of actual tables is useful to help LLMs analyze papers, and that it's useful to therefore preprocess papers (quick with subagents) but that's an assumption to test - olmOCR looks like a nice additional benchmark

@aniketapanjwani I think if you really want to make a PDF skill worth the context overhead, you need a bench to optimize against. e.g., pull ~50 famous papers and convert with Ai2's olmOCR (github.com/allenai/olmocr) to use as the ground truth. Then optimize docling + skill files to match output.

I made a skill for PDF reading optimized for academic articles, including tables. As a test case, I ran it on Acemoglu Johnson Robinson (2001). You can see the benchmark results here: github.com/aniketpanjwani… Under the hood - it uses IBM's docling with various optimizations/tweaks for tables (you can see all the tables here): github.com/aniketpanjwani… > thx @EconTraina for docling recommendation You can install it from my skills repository - github.com/aniketpanjwani… - which also includes a Python Learning Skill (x.com/aniketapanjwan…) and has various install instructions Or just point CC/Codex at github.com/aniketpanjwani… and ask it "install this skill" I've got several ideas of how to improve the skill, but feel free to submit a Github issue and/or PRs with improvements.

This talk was a lot of fun (and thanks to the ~750 live attendees!) Slides are up on my site - ai-mba.io/tutorials/ai-a… . If you had any questions I didn't get time to answer in the talk - join my Skool (skool.com/the-ai-mba) we've got over 1300 economists, business people, and AI devs pushing to get to the limits of agentic coding

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A lot of academics still think AI apps generate fake references to papers that don't exist. They are living in 2023. You can easily integrate a database of 280M research papers with Claude and ChatGPT to get answers with references to published papers. Here's how to do it:

Want to start using Claude Code for academic research? Or see incredible things other researchers are doing with Claude Code? Here's a thread of 5 great tutorials, skill and projects you can start using right now. I'm also keen to do an online "reading group" to work through these and others every week. Beginners welcome. Let me know below if you're interested. 1/ Chris Blattman shares an entire suite of tools he build in the last 4 weeks:

Claude Code will fundamentally change the nature of academic research. But most academics don't know how to use it. Here's how to get started on Claude Code (even if you've never coded). Claude Code for Academics 101:

@iMedKrisna @rizkisiregar @yanuarnugroho Wah terima kasih banyak pak dukungannya @yanuarnugroho ! Kuy lanjutin gengs wkwkk

@rizkisiregar @yanuarnugroho @laksonomics Waduh ga nyangka. makasih banyak Pak Yanuar atas endorsementnya.

kudos to the authors! bravo! the more pressing issue: how can the government, or state, rearrange its current institutional settings to allow those necessary conditions f/ growth to happen? perhaps a deep-dive into state capacity could be your next piece of work? congrats again!

@aledinola make a skill instead x.com/aniketapanjwan…

Presiden Prabowo Subianto @prabowo telah menetapkan target pertumbuhan GDP sebesar 8%, sejumlah program dan kebijakan telah diluncurkan untuk pencapaian target tersebut. Namun, apakah target ini realistis untuk dicapai?

@iMedKrisna @rayestu @FKP_Indonesia @rizkisiregar Woi lah wkwk

@rayestu @FKP_Indonesia @rizkisiregar Wah harus tanya @laksonomics kalo itu

Congratulations @iMedKrisna, Riandy Laksono and @rizkisiregar on your forthcoming paper in @BIESjournal: "#Prabowonomics: can Indonesia really grow at 8%?"