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Dan Goldstein
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Dan Goldstein
@dggoldst
Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research NYC. AI, Economics, Decision Science.
Okay so this is wild. I'm using this ticket machine in Japan and it malfunctions and doesn't give me my change. Suddenly, a panel in the wall opens in the wall and a guy appears and tells me to hold on and then gives me my change.
- Replying to @ON_LIGHT_frIn France the man says that the machine has already worked 32 hours this week and gets to take a break
- To do something about the high price of gas, Germany has introduced a €9 ticket that lets you travel all around the country. Basically free transit for an entire month. I'm here for 3 days and bought one.
- Replying to @VamleafWhen he told me to hold on I realized I had a rare opportunity to capture something that people would doubt if I didn't. Gave me time to get my phone ready.
- What are some debunked things that a lot of reasonably well-informed people don't know are debunked?
- Suppose f is a real-valued function defined on the interval [a, b] and integrable in the sense of Lebesgue. Now suppose I was lying about that. Do you feel betrayed?
- One person I feel who is insufficiently appreciated is Hadley Wickham. The results of his work are everywhere, every journal and conference I know. He changed the history of science.
- Do people who do research on counterfactuals think about what it would be like if they chose another topic?
- Professors, don't be mean to job candidates, they remember it the rest of their lives. Source: remembered it the rest of my life.
- At the breakfast bar and wondering if having everybody touch the same pair of tongs in the same place is proven to be better than having everybody simply pick up their own piece of bread
