Paper here: arxiv.org/pdf/2107.07083. Old-ish paper, but newly accepted to Operations Research!
With Wes Gurnee, David Shmoys, and David Rothschild.
MMDs with RCV are a pipe dream, but repeatedly proposed in Congress as part of the Fair Representation Act. We show that even 3 member districts severely limit gerrymandering potential. Intuitively, if a party wins 3 seats with 75%+ of a district but only 2 with 50%+, wasted vote potential decreases
CC @fairvote.bsky.social, who have been doing a lot of wonderful work for advancing Rank Choice Voting in the United States
This is the best thing I've read on baseball's new ABS system. Balls and strikes are made, not found.
arxiv.org/pdf/2605.16237
Ah, forgot to tag @davmicrot.bsky.social, who is of course on Bluesky
✨New paper out @nature.com ✨ For 8 weeks around the 2024 US election, we randomly assigned 2,000 people to use social media algos we built ourselves. Do engagement-based algorithms amplify intergroup, moral & emotional (IME) content—and does that distort how we see political norms? 🧵🔗 👇
David Shmoys wrote an op-ed in the SF chronicle, based on our paper on how multimember districts with ranked choice voting would several limit gerrymandering
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
Modern LLMs are incredibly good compression algorithms, which can shed light on why autonomous data science agents don't overfit as much as you might think. arxiv.org/abs/2606.11045
an agent system and a single 404 error got me in trouble with OpenAI and Cornell campus security. how did this happen?
introducing: "agent meltdowns" (1/11)
arxiv.org/abs/2605.19149
Excited to share our paper!
Due Process on Hold: A Queueing Framework for Improving Access in SNAP
arxiv.org/abs/2605.15165
Millions of Americans interface with the social safety net via call centers that are too congested. In Holmes v. Knodell, bad operations = procedural due process violation.
