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  • Analytic agents that can show their work
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  • Economics, institutions, and progress
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01Updated live

Read & listen

The Daily Index

Marginal Revolution, Dwarkesh, EconTalk, Gwern, NYT, FanGraphs, literary journals, podcasts, and a curated X desk.

  • Ideas
  • AI
  • Economics
  • Books
  • Baseball
02Live during the season

Watch the game

MLB Scorebook

Scores, standings, pitch sequences, contact quality, league leaders, and printable scorecards.

0324 pieces · 2 series

Read the argument

The Slophist

Created essays and dialogues about machine fluency, judgment, and how to vibe code without surrendering either.

  • Essays
  • Dialogues
  • Series
04Permanent shelf

Read slowly

Books

McElreath, Pearl, Silver, Kahneman, Cunningham, Lewis, and the books added next.

05Working memory

Keep the useful parts

Research Notes

Evaluation frameworks, registry data, calibration, forecasting, and methods worth reusing.

06In progress

Think in public

Writing

Agent evaluation, healthcare data contracts, baseball forecasting, and probabilistic thinking.

07Code & experiments

Use the tools

Apps & Tools

Scorebook, Shelves, the Daily Index, and the next experiment that survives contact with use.

Danny Pichardo

Applied AI, healthcare data, statistical systems, and baseball models.

  • 10+ years in data science
  • Senior / Lead GenAI Data Scientist
  • B.S. Statistics, UMBC
  • Baltimore, Maryland
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