Econ & PoliSci Prof @uWaterloo: Env & Res, Trade. Kids taxi. Dog entertainer. Internalizer of externalities.
https://uwaterloo.ca/scholar/hrus
Horatiu Rus
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New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.
🇨🇦 energy strategy just dropped: double energy production and decarbonize economy.
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Eddie Yang
The 5-year plan for the win?
TLDR: this agreement does not maintain a path to net zero by 2050
Another loophole for regressive income redistribution found!
pizza squirrel on campus at @uwaterloo.ca
I made an error on my previous EV chart! (Thanks @pjpartington.bsky.social for the catch). Sales shares are even higher than i showed.
Canadian EV sales shares return to 2024 levels:
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Katharine Hayhoe
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Also, prices never go down to where you remember them. That’s not the way it works
10/ Bottom line:
Reproducibility in social science is higher than often claimed, but robustness remains a key challenge.
More open data, more robustness, and more scrutiny can only help.
Link to article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Preprint: ideas.repec.org/p/zbw/i4rdps...
Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦
Alright, lets do another live skeet react to the actual text in the Canada Alberta agreement:
www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...
The world is changing rapidly. In response, Canada’s new government is focused on what we can control: building an affordable, competitive, and sustainable Canadian economy.
