Dan Goldstein
Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research NYC. AI, Economics, Decision Science.
- It's so cold that soap bubbles freeze then burst, leaving behind frozen skeletons
- Reposted by Dan GoldsteinToday's SJDM Featured Paper is: DeKay, M. L. (in press). Risky-choice framing effects persist when option descriptions are matched and complete: A replication and extension of DeKay and Dou (2024). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Dan GoldsteinToday's SJDM Featured Paper is: Dietvorst, B. J. (in press). Understanding people's preferences for predictions: People prioritize being right over minimizing how wrong they are in expectation. Management Science. doi.org/10.1287/mnsc...
- About a year ago I stumbled across one of the best teaching examples of selection effects ever
- Inflation has me constantly thinking "ha ha funny!" before realizing it's not an error
- I'm suddenly inspired to launch a suburban mall flower shop called Fleurs du Mall. Who wants in?
- Reposted by Dan Goldsteinfun(?) little webapp to plot daylight length D(t) and D'(t) for anywhere on the globe at any time (t) in the year lalten.org/daylight sanity checks: - reproduce solstices as D'(t) crossing y=0 - equator has flat D(t), D'(t) [cc @dggoldst.bsky.social who frequently posts about D''(t) ]
- Reposted by Dan GoldsteinThe Society for Judgment and Decision Making is pleased to announce that the latest newsletter is ready for download: sjdm.org/newsletters/ This issue contains announcements, conferences, and jobs!
- My kids and I made a cube out of paper and hot glue because it seemed like a very Saturday December 20th thing to do
- They make planes so big nowadays
- There will soon be proctoring center franchises in which people will take tests, do job interviews, and complete paid surveys without access to AI. They'll be strategically placed so that most people will live within a short distance of a proctoring center.
- We need better ways to tell computers and humans apart Article: The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Returning from Bielefeld. Pretty sure, but not positive, it exists.
- We need better ways to tell computers and humans apart Article: The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Back in Germany after many years and the express train is 18 minutes late. So this is how it ends.
- Want to be an intern at Microsoft Research in the Computational Social Science group in NYC (Jake Hofman, David Rothschild, Dan Goldstein) Follow this link and do your thing! Deadline approaching soonish! apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...
- The original post above is missing a question mark. At least you know it wasn't AI generated!
- Happy Friday to all who celebrate
- A classmate of my 11-year-old daughter said he'd give her a pack of Sour Patch Kids if she could get his pedometer to 67,000. Enter the reciprocating saw.
- In 2020, my friend @jasndoc.bsky.social wrote a fictional dialog between R and STATA. In 2023 I said in a few years AI could make it into a stunning movie with spoken parts. It's here. sora.chatgpt.com/p/s_692d0b8c...
- The original script x.com/jasndoc/stat... cc @khoavuumn.bsky.social
- Tom Stoppard always made me think. This quote above all.
- It's the holidays and our 11-year-old is making her little cousins play the prisoners' dilemma
- The penalties employed so far include getting clobbered by a pillow or having a balloon explode in your general vicinity
- electoral districts should be determined by an algorithm with proven guarantees and it is cruel not to let the theoretical computer scientists design it because they have been waiting their whole lives for an opportunity like this
- There's a joke in Germany that Bielefeld doesn't exist. I have evidence that it may not be a joke after all.
- I don't usually fly Delta but when I do I wonder if it's called that because the flight is the delta between you and your destination
- The Delta airlines boarding song is Despacito, which literally means slowly and is not how you want people to board a plane
