Brandon Hall @bthall@scholar.social

Reading Akerloff’s “A Theory of Social Custom, of which unemployment may be one consequence” in his An Economic Theorist’s Book of Tales (1984)

Run across a formulation which is similar to some of my charitability thoughts for social groups.

do you guys listen to any podcasts?

I'd like to have something to listen to during long walks or runs! I used to listen to audiobooks but I'd actually perfer a podcast on history or science-y things, detailed stuff is good (no politics etc).

dunno where to find them

@bthall if i'm not mistaken, this already exists. for example, if you're in a julia shell, you can type

?≥

and you get this:
```
help?> ≥
"≥" can be typed by \ge<tab>
search: ≥

>=(x, y)
≥(x,y)

Greater-than-or-equals comparison operator. Falls back to y <= x.

Examples
≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡

julia> 'a' >= 'b'
false

julia> 7 ≥ 7 ≥ 3
true

julia> "abc" ≥ "abc"
true

julia> 5 >= 3
true
```

@bthall I would try visualising the data points from both perspectives. I've found RapidMiner a good software (non free for productive purposes) for doing this. It allows you to apply most data science algorithms, visualize them and find connections or new data points. Once I find a good representation of my data, I can move the actual implementation to something more efficient (R, Numpy, scikit, etc)

@RaoOfPhysics Sure, just switch over to game studies.

In my work with programmes aimed at producers, there seems to be the implicit assumption of agricultural producers being more generous than others.

Can... has anyone seen anything to prove this? That isn't just anecdotal?

Messaging of this is certainly tied to forms of agrarian exceptionalism.

Scientific conference poster sessions: what you need to do.
Step 1: Remember to bring your poster with you.
Step 2: Make sure it's securely fixed to the board.
Step 3: Stand nearby in case someone has questions.

I have been experiencing an inverse Dunning-Kruger effect over the last few years. I have realized that literally everyone is better than me at something, and so I am much better off collaborating with them than trying to work on my own.

@bthall In broad strokes, yes, but the devil is in the details.

what tools do you use for personal academic 'project management'? tracking status of papers/studies, stuff to read/prioritize reading, tracking cfps and conferences of interest, various sizes of to-do lists...? one tool or a toolkit of varied apps?
(doesn't necessarily need to be shareable, but some parts could extend to co-author communication)

Oh! This is a nice paper summarizing a lot of information about prior choice in Bayesian models. It's targeted at ecologists and the kinds of models they tend to use, but useful outside of ecology I expect.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/oik.05985

#ecology #modeling #stan #bayesian

@bthall @invaderxan Do you have any good suggestions for how we *should* organise such papers as pdfs?

Word of caution. If you, like me, save PDF copies of papers to a directory called "to read" or "unsorted" or similar, try not to let them accumulate.

This advice brought to you by that one scientist who just spent literal hours sorting through a folder full of several hundred papers.