Polity It’s unique: there are great educational materials on English grammar for schools (eg by ENGLICIOUS English grammar resources for teachers), and Geoff (with Rodney Huddleston & Distending the grammatical Overton window🏴‍☠️) has written a fine textbook for students, but this is eye-opening for general readers. This bit nicely sums up its approach.

Thanks, Polity, for sending me advance copy of this book by Geoff Pullum. I’ve often felt there’s an absence of a reliable introduction to English grammar for intelligent laypeople, assuming no prior knowledge. This is it. It’s brilliant, by a giant of modern linguistics.

New rule from the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania:

States agencies must issue permits quickly or refund application fees.

“The Department of Environmental Protection, which decides when developers can break ground, has reduced its backlog for new permits by 41%.”

Closest approximation that I can think of is the consumer sentiment comparison versus 5 years ago.

Most people think they are better off now than they were 5 years ago.

Is economics self-correcting? Our paper on replications & comments in the AER is now out in Economic Inquiry (in a special issue on replication I4R). There is some interesting material, including a survey of all living former AER editors. 1/n onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

“Jordanian jets downed dozens of Iranian drones flying across northern and central Jordan heading to Israel, two regional security sources say in a dramatic show of support from Amman” timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry…

The Human Mind through the Lens of Language (book review) academic.oup.com/pq/article-abs…

WOW... this one is *huge* (and nerdy). The federal government is bringing back a 10% Accelerated Capital Cost Allowance for purpose-built rentals.

This was one of the key recommendations of both the National Housing Accord and Blueprint for More and Better Housing.

Efron & Hastie's history of statistics in a simplex
web.stanford.edu/~hastie/CASI/

One of my main motivations for founding Our World in Data was to overcome the mad reality in academia that much of the most important research and data is locked away behind paywalls.

I wanted research and data to be a public good, accessible to *everyone*.

If you find our work…

These are culturally interesting, not just amazing AI: youtube.com/@abandonedfilms

Well… it’s not quant style replication but…

I tested my own theory with the exact same methodology but in another country

And reviewers were curious as to why I was so emphatic to say that Evans was wrong ?? 😄

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08…

Well, there's a clear tension in play.

First: standardized tests emphatically provide predictive information above and beyond GPAs.

College admissions officials have a problem. They've had the problem for a very long time, every one of them knows the problem, and nobody has a…

Thread time! Here's the TL;DR version.

Even if we could build homes for next-to-nothing, we're not going to bring back affordability for middle-class Ontario families unless we tackle high development charges and land costs.

Here's why.

Ah, I see Ethan Mollick 's book 'Co-Intelligence' is out at last. (I think he's been nervously watching AI get better in the four months between finishing the book and publication date...)
The book is great. Practical, useful, a pleasure to read. Recommended.
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Great news that this paper by the fantastic Barbara Biasi won the AEA's award for Best Paper published AEJ: Policy in the past 3 years!

Important insights into the impact of flexibility in teacher pay schemes on student outcomes.

aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

It's higher wages and more negotiating power in working conditions.

Max Fawcett 🇨🇦 I think it's just wild that any government right now would be implementing policies that boost housing demand and prices.

Not surprisingly, John Michael McGrath nails it. Yesterday's housing bill from the province does almost nothing to address the housing crisis.

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