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matt kovach

@mlkovach1

CA native, phd from @Caltech, now an economist at @PurdueBusiness. research includes micro theory/behavioral/experimental economics. all statements are my own.

Katılım Eylül 2012
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matt kovach@mlkovach1·
Can an LLM Learn Preferences from Choice Data? I am happy to announce that we have finished revising our paper on this topic. We study whether LLMs can infer preferences from choice data and then make preference-consistent recommendations in new problems.
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@mean_field_zane agree. also it’s not even clear he actually mixed up the conditional so much as wrote a bad sentence.
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𝔐𝔽𝓩@mean_field_zane·
@mlkovach1 @localsweety Nope. Unfortunately this is not remotely correct and you just end up being disingenuous and sending people down the wrong path if you pretend like it will work. It’s dishonest.
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@mean_field_zane @localsweety i see how that would be demoralizing, but i think things will work out for most people if they don’t fall down the “red pill / woman hate” rabbit hole
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@mean_field_zane @localsweety i see lots of people dating and getting married and all that. i guess there’s information selection on both ends of the spectrum so i’ll partially grant your point
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matt kovach@mlkovach1·
@mean_field_zane @localsweety i’ll grant that some have had such experience and retract the word “incel,” but i think many of these concerns are overblown and mostly this stuff is just toxic engagement bait that leads young men astray and sets them up for failure
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𝔐𝔽𝓩@mean_field_zane·
@mlkovach1 @localsweety I would say young men who are reasonably concerned about the complete collapse of social norms and paranoid because of repeated traumas?
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matt kovach@mlkovach1·
@btshapir true. and for most forms of work, a utility van >>> a truck
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@mean_field_zane @localsweety i don’t even think it’s trauma for many of them. the incels have just never experienced caring for someone else and hence cannot fathom genuine care being expressed. it’s sad, but also almost entirely self-inflicted
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matt kovach@mlkovach1·
@alz_zyd_ @merlinn087 i’ve learned that some people think “arbitrary” means “random.” Somewhat related, some also tend to think “random” means “uniformly random”
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alz@alz_zyd_·
TIL: "arbitrarily large" is mathspeak and not normie English usage, woops
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Alex Imas@alexolegimas·
This from @TuhinChakr is brilliant. That prize winning story from Granta? Turns out it's just a bunch of random whole phrases taken directly from existing text on the internet. Tool allows you to trace those n-grams directly to their source, which is mostly random fanfiction. tuhinchakrabarty.substack.com/p/ai-slop-gran…
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matt kovach@mlkovach1·
@btshapir “touching grass,” as they say, is actually so effective at improving mood (at least for me)
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Brad Shapiro
Brad Shapiro@btshapir·
People seem to be angrier on here the past few days. Or is it just my feed? Maybe it's time for everyone to go outside and exercise a little bit.
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Chris Blattman
Chris Blattman@cblatts·
My hypothesis: US university education was a massively successful export industry (foreign students paying tuition + housing + living expenses is literally classified as exports) and Trump admin collapsed this demand.
Anthony Bradley@drantbradley

Clemson is $1.5B in debt. Syracuse is closing or pausing 93 programs, UNC-Chapel Hill plans to cut spending by $89M over 3 years. Duke recently let 600 employees go in a $350M budget cut. Indiana public colleges announced a plan to eliminate or merge 580 programs statewide.

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Sebastian Galiani
Sebastian Galiani@SFGaliani·
Very proud of my daughter, who has been doing research since she was a freshman at UCSB and yesterday presented one of her papers — where she is the lead author, and in biology that really means something — at an important conference.
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Patrick Heizer
Patrick Heizer@PatrickHeizer·
The president purchasing Nvidia shares a week before his own Commerce Department allows them to sell one of our most valuable assets to our main geopolitical opponent is unfathomably more corrupt than anything on Hilary Clinton's email server.
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Lee Hepner@LeeHepner

“Trump purchased $500,000 to $1 million worth of Nvidia stock on Jan. 6, a week before the Commerce Department officially approved the sale of Nvidia chips to China.” Insider trading, corruption, treason. Where are the calls for impeachment?

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matt kovach@mlkovach1·
i’m in this picture and i don’t like it 😞
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Patrick Heizer
Patrick Heizer@PatrickHeizer·
Every Democrat since Carter has decreased the federal deficit. Every Republican since Eisenhower has increased the federal deficit.
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Sara McGee for Texas HD 132@SaraForTexLege

If there is ever a social phenomenon that needs to be studied, it is how the GOP has been able to hoodwink people for decades into thinking that they the party of “fiscal responsibility” when there is absolutely ZERO evidence to support that claim. And I mean ZERO.

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Anya Samek 🇺🇦@AnyaSamek·
Calling all economists! Jenn Pate and I are hosting The ESA Meetings in July 14th-17th in sunny Los Angeles. Still accepting submissions - we welcome any experimental paper - lab, field, survey... & novel methods to answer behavioral questions. sites.google.com/view/esa2026la…
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