January 22
I miss real life friends but at least I have this app, where I hate everyone and they hate me too Better things are possible (@InternetHippo) January 23, 2021
my cat has become OBSESSED with sitting in on my zoom calls and has now perfected the art of glaring straight down the camera pic.twitter.com/RbFSQSlkV6 Abby Tomlinson (@twcuddleston) January 22, 2021
The theme of Pulp Fiction is breakfast disappointment. Jules and Vincent ruin the burgers breakfast for the guys and ruin Jimmy s morning coffee. Butch doesn t eat his pop tarts and his girlfriend doesn t get her blueberry pancakes. And the diner robbery happens during breakfast.
Weekly links December 18: code cleaning, Angus on aid, how to spend for the holidays, and more…
· Oxford’s Coders’ Corner has advice on Stata data cleaning routines for string variables – just the thing for when you receive data with entries like “BURKINA FASO” “Burkina Faso” “BURKINA/FASO” and “ Burkina Faso “ all as responses.
· Rationally speaking (that’s the name of the podcast) interview in which Angus Deaton uses Borat to argue to Julia Galef that “giving aid to other countries from outside is almost always a mistake” including both aid to governments and aid to individuals. And his nihilist view of the value of replication “AD: replication tells you nothing…JG: So even if you did a thousand RCTs, in tons of different countries, and every time you found that cash transfers increased people s consumption and made them happier you would claim that you haven t learned anything? Because you can never