Monday assorted links
1. An argument that Pakes, Berry, and Hausman should win the Nobel Prize in economics.
2. The fleeting lifespan of a major league baseball (NYT).
3. “Bird lovers are more motivated to take action to prevent birds from colliding with their windows by messages that emphasize the effectiveness of those measures, while emotional appeals are more persuasive for the general public, a new Cornell study has found.” Link here.
4. The illusion of diminishing returns in LLM progress. And will the entire economy become a “reinforcement learning machine”?
5. Which names should Starbucks allow on the cup?
6. For the non-famous, co-authorship predicts academic job switches.