Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham

My friend is teaching to his Economics Ph.D. students and explaining why they should be interested in topics that are not in their subfield.

Keeping a list of all the writings and things I’ve done with AI, both here on the blog and over on Substack.

AI has lowered a huge number of frictions for me with respect to programming.

New monograph from Richard Crump and Nikolay Gospodinov that I think deserves more attention: Resampling Asset Prices: An Identity-Based Approach (Cambridge Elements in Quantitative Finance, 2026).

On Twitter/X and LinkedIn, there has been a large discussion of the ability to “one-shot” policy evaluation, which David Yanagizawa-Drott has been pursuing in an interesting way: ape.socialcatalystlab.org Here’s the punchline: automated AI procedures for…

The Butlerian Jihad The Butlerian Jihad is a pre-story event referenced in Frank Herbert’s Dune series that describes a revolt by humans to destroy all machines that can “think like man.”

Academics are worried about AI replacing them and their work.

This post comes from many fruitful discussions with my friend Kyle Jensen.

Really outstanding post for both CS and social science folks

Great post by Saloni on the value of visualization