I've been enjoying learning about linear regression. This is a really cool machine learning technique with some really elegant theory --- someone should have taught me about this earlier!
During my undergrad, a friend and I randomly showed up at Prof's office. We weren't even in his uni. We told him we want to work on game theory/ mech design/ social choice. Instead of kicking us out of his office (which he should have), he gave us stuff to work on and mentored us
Introducing Tempo: a payments-first blockchain incubated by Stripe and Paradigm.
As stablecoins go mainstream, there’s a need for optimized infrastructure. Tempo is purpose-built for stablecoins and real-world payments, born from Stripe’s experience in global payments and
Update: Along with my work @Consensys/ @specialmech , I’m excited to share that I’ll be contributing @paradigm as a Research Advisor, bringing perspectives from economics, game theory and mechanism design to improving the protocol and application layers at both. (1/4)
Today's email from our Provost @adittmar makes it official. I am now an unqualified professor (shamelessly ripping off @Aaroth 's tweet). Thank you to my wonderful advisors (only @Jeffely on Twitter, but also Ricky, Nabil and Eddie) who somehow granted me a PhD,
when i was on the jm, i had some google adwords $'s. used the $'s to advertise my jmp/webpage whenever anyone searched for a close friend (also on the jm, as a joke). only my advisor noticed, and told me to cut it out in ~2 hours.
In many financial settings, being even slightly faster can give you an edge. Our new paper (with @danrobinson and @ciamac) studies how latency advantages—like bidding a few milliseconds later— affect the feasibility of conducting auctions onchain.
