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Papers: Multi-Agent Digital Twins for Strategic Decision-Making using Active Inference

I read (and wrote) this paper (blog post) over multiple days. I picked it up initially last Friday but put it down over what turned out to be a pretty busy weekend. I was…

Papers: In Which I Defend The Healthcare Machine

It’s a beautiful morning in Philadelphia. Sunny, clear skies, and the birds are chirping. It’s going to be hot today but for now it’s idyllic. Why I spent such a beautiful…

Papers: Well I Said Make No Mistakes!

I hate when something piques my interest because it feels related to something I’m working on but it turns out it isn’t. Nine times out of ten I can’t just quit the read…

Papers: Dualformer

The title rage-baited me. Meta’s new Dualformer: Controllable Fast and Slow Thinking by Learning with Randomized Reasoning Traces develops a training approach motivated by…

Papers: Cost of Regulatory Compliance in the United States

I’ve always been pretty interested in the distortionary impact of regulation – I think people tend to read the lede on the efficiency losses associated with regulation from…

Papers: Switchback Price Experiments with Forward-Looking Demand

I’ve been going down a bit of a dynamic pricing rabbit hole - Black Friday is right around the corner and with so many retailers offering some kind of discount it’s…

Dynamic Pricing in a Very Dumb Vacuum

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence, particularly reinforcement learning (RL), have been touted as potentially transformative for pricing strategies in…