Eni Iljazi

i’m going to the research frontier does anyone want anything?

the Algorithm will become even more of a black box and its workings will be so opaque that, with pagan ignorance, we’ll start worshipping it like a deity.

at the very last session of the conference on a Friday, the moderator said “everyone’s tired and looking forward to the cocktail reception, so please keep your questions brief” and i kid you not this guy goes “when the Romans left the British isles…”

why put readers through such a boring read just to remind them that they don’t teach economics at SOAS? on.ft.com/46rSXsY

“it’s priced in” yeah, something is

TIL that motorbikes are called “boda boda” in Kenya because they were used a lot for transport across the Kenyan-Ugandan border…

don’t ask people “what do you do”. instead say “what’s your funding”

i was a tomboy growing up. there was this mean old neighbor who - whenever she saw me playing outside in the street - would tell me “you’re not a girl, you’re a boy”. and while it didn’t give me gender dysmorphia, surely it explains something.

Cook County passed the first Torrens Act in 1895, but then allowed it to expire in 1992

will the Subway Takes guy agree me with me that we need a Torrens system? title insurance is basically robbery -- they have the lowest payout ratio of any major US insurance line, only 5% !!

at this conference where the speaker got to a slide in the presentation which was just a xkcd comic and said "I included this little joke, but we're not here to make jokes" and immediately skipped it. incredible.

GOTD

Yeah, well; I’ve seen plenty of think tanks without much thinking going on, to say nothing of the complete lack of tanks

i know we are all worried about TFR and the implications for social security, but i think we’re underestimating how much the retirement age will increase, so the burden on pensions won’t be as high. at a dinner with 3 people over 80 who are so angry about being forced to retire

angrily saying “keep running, you better not get killed” at your laptop in a café will get you stares (i submitted a bash script)

inverse U-shaped relationship between credit scoring accuracy and financial sophistication — underdeveloped financial markets have informality, very advanced financial systems have “buy now, pay later”

we’re gonna go feed the giraffes later if you want to pull up

she’s a 10 but her humor is too self-referential

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