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2025 Ig Nobel Winner - Phase behavior of Cacio e Pepe sauce

In this study, we systematically explore the phase behavior of Cacio e pepe sauce, focusing on its stability at increasing temperatures for various proportions of cheese, water, and starch. We identify starch concentration as the key factor influencing

Nine Things I Learned in Ninety Years by "Choose Your Own Adventure" creator, Edward Packard.

I had planned, as the heading of this section, to claim that I had learned to avoid self-deception, but after reading more about it, I decided that I had learned only to guard against self-deception.

Kevin A. Bryan's meta-analysis on seven books regarding economic impact of AI:

All I would like you to keep in mind is that the bold claims are taken seriously by enough people on the AI research and AI policy side that social scientists risk being left out of important conversations

From new NBER Working paper:

We leverage novel advertising video data and apply new empirical methods to study how banks actively use advertising to build their images, align with their operational strengths, market positions, and the demographics of target customers. These image-building efforts have significant impacts on the demand for

"General Social Agents" by Benjamin Manning and John Horton:

Our approach relies on two key principles: (i) grounding candidate AI agents in theories expected to drive human behavior in the target setting, and (ii) optimizing and then validating AI agents in distinct but related settings presumed to share underlying behavioral

Ethan Ding on the economics of providing LLM services:

when you're spending time with an ai—whether coding, writing, or thinking—you always max out on quality. nobody opens claude and thinks, "you know what? let me use the shitty version to save my boss some money." we're cognitively greedy