Alessandro Sontuoso

A true pioneer whose work shaped multiple fields. Great loss.

Restricting beliefs may change the predictions of strong rationalizability non-monotonically. Yet, this paper shows, restricting initial beliefs on types can only sharpen the predictions. This allows to solve an open problem in robust-implementation theory.https://buff.ly/mO017Pu

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For those of us who’ve been taunted by Google Scholar refusing to show results unless the title was nearly word-for-word exact… this is good.

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Excited to be giving a NoBeC talk soon — tune in here:

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Consensus AI Deep Search is a cool agentic search function that runs full literature reviews across 200 million papers in minutes.

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(I am pleased to be an advisor to this company.)

Hard to believe he was performing on stage less than three weeks ago :-/

Sharp and beautifully written — a nice read.

Submit abstract by Jul 4 for the Int’l Wrkshp on Logic & Philosophy: Social Norms (Logical Structures & Philosophical Foundations), Tsinghua–University of Amsterdam Joint Research Center for Logic. Acceptance decisions Aug 29. #philsky #econsky

Committees & details: www.tsinghualogic.net/JRC/4thlp/

If I remember right from music theory, the layout isn’t a drafting artifact though. A piano keyboard has 2 halves—an upper half dividing the octave into 12 semitones (counting black & white keys), and a lower half dividing it into 7 scale steps (white keys). So the asymmetry reflects the 12-to-7 map

The device, about the size of two shoe boxes, was developed in a bid to create 'synthetic biological intelligence' — a new form of computing that could offer opportunities beyond conventional electronics and other developing technologies such as quantum computing https://on.ft.com/4kc8obJ

Some optical illusions fool Westerners but not the Himba people of Namibia. Bad eyesight? No, just a different edit (or model) of reality.

More evidence for John Dewey’s insight: reality isn’t experienced the same, and perception isn’t passive—it’s shaped by what culture trains us to frame and see.

CITY-QMUL Theory wksp

Robert Evans, Cambridge
Tan Gan, LSE
Nenad Kos, Bocconi
Sophie Kreutzkamp, Manchester
Elliot Lipnowski, Yale
George Mailath, Penn
Paula Onuchic, LSE
Francisco Poggi, Mannheim
Ludvig Sinander, Oxford
Aidan Smith, Edinburgh
Leeat Yariv, Princeton
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CITY Theory & Experiments Workshop

Join us on May 16 at the City University (City St George’s, University of London) for our Theory & Experiments workshop—bringing together leading researchers in micro theory and behavioral economics.

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A room filled with shelves of books. With data science tools in hand, historians can ask questions that would be difficult to answer with a lifetime of perusing tomes or scrolling through microfiche. Image credit: Shutterstock/BPTU.

Here’s how historians use #DataScience to mine the past in ways never before possible. A PNAS Science and Culture piece: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #Digital Historians #ComputationalModel #DigitalHistory #AI #NetworkAnalysis #LLMs

A great new search tool for economics papers just launched. Worth a look.

Economic theory to the rescue.

Join us on May 1 at the City University (City St George’s, University of London) for a Behavioral Insights for Policy workshop—bringing together top academics & practitioners working on behaviorally informed themes such as consumer choice, online safety, market regulation, computational models & AI.

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Swearing is linked with increased pain tolerance and strength The science behind swearing and its impact on pain and strength is complex, but research has shown that it is linked with a number of positive effects.

New research confirms what we all knew after hammering a nail *and* our thumb, grabbing a hot pan bare-handed, then stepping barefoot on a plug: swearing dulls pain. Turns out, it also boosts strength. So next time you’re at the gym, let the expletives fly—purely to replicate the results, of course.

An operating system for networked quantum computers is a huge practical step forward An operating system for quantum computers allows for easy app networking.

Quantum computers have gained the powerful abstractions that allow programmers of classical computers to design and integrate new apps and hardware, and connect devices into networks with ease

https://go.nature.com/43INRaa

Main Page - Ancestors The Ancestors Portal makes available online the enormous documentary heritage of civil status records existing in Italian state archives, indispensable for conducting registry and genealogical researc...

Stumbled on a treasure trove of archival history. Want to time-travel through old (even Napoleonic) civil records from the Belpaese? Births, marriages, deaths—it’s all there, waiting to reveal forgotten family roots or prove that your great-great-grandpa’s name was so long it spilled onto a 2nd line

Forget the US — Europe has successfully put tariffs on itself High internal barriers and regulatory hurdles are far more damaging for growth than anything America might impose

Draghi: “The IMF estimates that Europe’s internal barriers are equivalent to a tariff of 45% for manufacturing and 110% for services. These effectively shrink the market in which European companies operate: trade across EU countries is less than half the level of trade across US states.”

At $8M a spot, the Super Bowl ad market is a neat case of inelastic demand for attention. In a world drowning in noise, focus is a rare asset. But still, some would probably love a marathon of those artsy commercials—punctuated only by the occasional football break. Meanwhile, I’m restocking queso.

How Much Does Our Language Shape Our Thinking? English continues to expand into diverse regions around the world. The question is whether humanity will be homogenized as a result.

Researchers have long debated over whether the language we speak shapes how we perceive the world. Now that some 1.5 billion people speak the same language, English, this question has taken on a new urgency.

What Spotify took from us by giving us everything Liz Pelly’s new book examines how playlists reshaped our culture.

Read mixed reviews of the “ultimate” Spotify book, where the author dismisses it as a glorified playlist generator. Initially designed as an advertising company, it rewired music with major economic impacts. Artists are underpaid, but is this equilibrium worse than the previous (piracy-fueled) one?

Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant by Audrey Borowski

“An impressive scholarly achievement” says Steven Nadler in his review of Leibniz in His World in the latest issue of @thetls.bsky.social.

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Interesting. I remember mobile fruit & veggie trucks in Italy blasting prerecorded lyrical announcements, typically in dialect. Ice cream trucks in the US still play repetitive tunes, but strangely without lyrics—maybe because many early immigrants’ kids didn’t speak English as their first language?

Good point—street vendors still sell freshly cut coconut and almonds on Italian beaches. Though unlike in the Hotelling model, these vendors are continuously in motion, walking along the beach (while beachgoers stay on their sunbeds) 😄