Speed Dating Project
Predictors of selectivity and desirability at speed dating events
Predicting matches at speed dating events: methodology
How subjective is attractiveness?
The role of attractiveness in mate selection: individual variation
Other Data Science
Earnings of economics majors: general considerations
Economics majors and earnings: further exploration
Some highlights from Nate Silver’s “The Signal and the Noise”
Robustness of Cost-Effectiveness Estimates and Philanthropy
Effective Altruism
Earning to Give vs. Altruistic Career Choice Revisited
Social Impact, Effective Altruism, and Motivated Cognition
A personal history of involvement with effective altruism
Some reservations about Singer’s child-in-the-pond argument
Saving lives via bed nets is hard to beat for immediate impact
Problems with Academia and the Rising Sea
Mathematicians and the Prevention of Recessions
Rationality
The Use of Many Independent Lines of Evidence: The Basel Problem
Many Weak Arguments vs. One Relatively Strong Argument
Many Weak Arguments and the Typical Mind
Artificial Intelligence
Progress on automated mathematical theorem proving?
Norbert Wiener’s paper “Some Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation”
High school
How valuable is it to learn math deeply?
Advanced Placement exam cutoffs and superficial knowledge over deep knowledge
High School, Human Capital, Signaling and College Admissions
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