John de New 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @deNew_John@social.cleverlibre.org

This was one helluva weekend!
✅ AFU liberated Kherson
✅ Black Ferns won the World Cup
✅ Dems got to keep the Senate
✅ I saw and photographed Kākā for the first time
(sorry, did not get to work on that paper)

Do we deserve a Monday off?

In case you haven't heard, at Hugging Face we are building wikipedia-like crowdsource documentation on machine learning tasks 📚 Every page has simply put information on implementing machine learning tasks and building your first proof-of-concept without diving deep into nitty gritty of maths of machine learning 🤩 https://huggingface.co/tasks

Colored cells in LaTeX Tables with overlay https://bit.ly/36WrHCE

@deNew_John Holy smokes, John—thank you for the high praise!

Time for an #introduction, I guess.

I’m a first year assistant professor of economics at Brock University in Ontario, Canada.

My research interests are roughly in law and economics, political economy, & public economics.

My current projects centre around police shootings and crime reporting, & the Iraq War and prejudice/hate crimes.

Last summer I organized a DiD reading group and the videos are on YouTube if that interests you: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVObvb_htcuBt8mV9yNagt7hK9FL5KXeE

Also enjoy dogs, coffee, and D&D.

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Rock the Casbah was off scale rocking and original

I believe what happened in the other platform happened bc I didn’t start with desert. Not making that mistake again.

#econfoodtwitter

For those among us who know enough about the way Medicare pays for health care to be dangerous but not much more, MedPAC's annual Payment Basics reports are a treasure.
https://www.medpac.gov/document-type/payment-basic/

I went to a Ukrainian book fair in Noble Park:

* greeted a bookseller,

* asked if they had Ukrainian classics, esp. Executed Renaissance,

* gave my email for additional info,

* asked about the price of the book I liked & if they accept card payments,

* expressed sadness by the fact that they did not, and told I had no cash,

* thanked him for his solution: I take the book and follow the emailed instructions,

* said goodbye

And -- all this in Ukrainian! Not much but I am proud anyway!

In case you have ever wondered which quantile model fits your research question best, Nicolai Borgen, Øvind Wiborg and I have some answers:

https://academic.oup.com/esr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/esr/jcac052/6815678

We give you some very non-technical discussions (some equations too if you like) about the different estimands we can care about in our theories and how they fit to recent quantile models.

(So, don't use the wrong type of quantile model for you research any more - if you did so...)

Hostess released a cryptocurrency themed Twinkie this summer, apparently: https://www.sfgate.com/shopping/article/Hostess-crypto-twinkie-twinkcoin-17338390.php

I’m just a Gen Xer playing computer games in my basement. 🤟 I can’t believe this really worked. They really don’t build them like the used to. “Does it boot?” Yes, yes it does!

Twitter users right now

The delevoper of BirdsiteLIVE has ended his project because of the huge inflow from Twitter https://write.as/nicolas-constant/closing-the-official-bsl-instance