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everywhere: meeting consumers where they are

Content delivery is not optimized for the technical stack used by an overwhelming majority of people. The technical stack of people who aren’t particularly tech-savvy, especially those who are old (over ~60 years), is often a messaging application like Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp. They currently do not have a

AFib: Apple Watch Did Not Increase Atrial Fibrillation Diagnoses

A new paper purportedly shows that the release of the Apple Watch 2018, which supported the ECG app, did not cause an increase in AFib diagnoses (mean = −0.008). They make the claim based on 60M visits from 1270 practices across 2 years. Here are some things to think about:

Amartya Sen on Keynes, Robinson, Smith, and the Bengal Famine

Sen in conversation with Angus Deaton and Tim Besley — pdf and video. Excepts: On Joan Robinson “She took a position—which has actually become very popular in India now, not coming from the left these days, but from the right—that what you have to concentrate on is simply maximizing

Routine Maintenance: How to Build Habits

With Mark Paluta. Building a habit means trying to maximize the probability of doing something at some regular cadence. max [P(do the thing)] This is difficult because we have time-inconsistent preferences. When asked if we would prefer to run or watch TV next Wednesday afternoon, we are more likely

What Academics Can Learn From Industry

At its best, industry focuses people. It demands that people use everything at their disposal to solve a problem. It puts a premium on being lean, humble, agnostic, creative, and rigorous. Industry data scientists use qualitative methods, e.g., directly observe processes and people, do lean experimentation, build novel instrumentation,