Ever ran an optimization with patrick but none of the algorithms worked? To use other algorithms, you had to learn a new library and rewrite your code? Say hi to #estimagic, a modern #python package that wraps all algorithms you’ll ever need 🚀 Of course, there’s more: A 🧵

It's okay, GPT, you don't have to pretend anymore.

Ngl latex fetishism is in my top 10 reasons why I want to leave academia. Interpret this as you wish.

Please watch - this is our planet heating up... 🌡️ [Visualization: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio (svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5057). Data: NASA GISS (data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/). Info: NASA Climate (climate.nasa.gov).]

Great thread about JAX's vmap function! Even more than vmap's speed, I love how it can simplify your code! A 🧵

Linux tip: Don’t run “rm -rf *” when you’re in the home directory

The # is Janos Gabler, creator of estimagic Read the full interview here blog.pythonlibrary.org/2023/03/06/pyd… Janos Gabler Mike Driscoll

Susan Athey on the dialogue between theory and empirics in economics:

This post’s first comment is one of the best and most thorough distinctions between R and Python I’ve read reddit.com/r/datascience/…

JMP 🧵🎉 What drives maternal labor supply - a key factor for labor market inequalities? Gender role attitudes! We use reduced form and structural methods to show that they are of first-order importance, both directly and through the mediation of policies (w/ Tim Mensinger)

Announcing uv: an extremely fast Python package installer and resolver, written in Rust. uv is designed as a drop-in alternative to pip, pip-tools, and virtualenv. With a warm cache, uv installs are near-instant. Here, it's > 75x faster than pip and pip-tools.

"How Gender Role Attitudes Shape Maternal Labor Supply" by Christian Zimpelmann and Tim Mensinger is now available: crctr224.de/research/discu… Interview with Christian Zimpelmann is now available: crctr224.de/newsroom/inter…

Check out my new working paper joint with my amazing coauthors Janos Gabler, Sebastian Gsell, and Mariam Petrosyan! We propose a new optimization algorithm that works particularly well for problems that arise during method of simulated moments estimation.

estimagic is now optimagic! 🎉✨ In addition to a new name, we have many new features.🚀 Stay tuned for updates in the next few days. 🔜📅

My favorite talk this year! optimagic is a wrapper library that provides a common API to around 60 opzimizers implemented in Python. Particularly enjoyed how much thought & effort the package authors (Janos Gabler & Tim Mensinger) put into designing a user friendly API!

As promised, here are a few more details about why we renamed estimagic to optimagic and what it means for users: tinyurl.com/optimagic-rena…