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RT @CavaliereGiu
Good morning #EconTwitter!

Do you write slides in #latex using 𝐁ᴇᴀᴍᴇʀ? Have a look at this amazing resource by @paulgp. Extremely useful, super clear and very easy to understand/implement.

Highly recommended!

paulgp.github.io/beamer_tips.h

Three Prisoners problem - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Pr

An interesting game that I have never seen. Surprise surprise. However, it is said to be mathematically equivalent to the Monty Hall problem, which I do have faint memory from a long time ago.

…by which I mean data collected by all the major advertisement companies (Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc).

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Is it ethical to use data that was collected unethically for research? I think no…

It never occurred to me, but I really like the idea of treating mental health as endowment just like physical health (and the heterogeneity thereof).

Golberstein & Busch, 2014
doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-3756

I think my mental health is regressing because of this. Very bad.

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If someone says “almost always” instead of “always”, it is a clear indicator that they does maths.

(Not) hot take: if analyses tools get implemented widely, a bunch of pre-existing users (including my other five accounts) will be moving to other services.

QT: mastodon.social/@angelamczhou/

Some people (professors or students) seem to forget from time to time that TA's are human beings with limited capacity.

Done. Half dead afterwards, but still half alive. Going back to the department, and people are saying congratulations to each other on football. So this is what a normal society feels like. Not bad.

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Turns out with excess amount of water supplied, my throat handles up to three hours of continuous loud talking in normal tone. Not sure whether I want to know that fact.

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Xindi He, a job market candidate from Booth this year, has an extensive set (almost 4000 pages!) of notes on finance and economics on his website hexindi.com/notes

Maybe because of lack of sleep, today my voice almost ran out after the first hour. Send help (and hope) to me to talk 7 hours on Friday…

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I have finally eliminated all the unread emails in my school mailbox. Achievement of the year.

Started many years ago to track the discussion of economic research on blogs, EconAcademics is still doing so. If it is missing some relevant blogs, please tell.

econacademics.org/

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China, protests 

A much more sobering example of how a resemblance to an image in our collective memory can instantly convey a relationship. #China #protests

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