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Analyst Incentives
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-09)Analyst forecasts have been shown to reflect substantial behavioral biases and predict a number of macroeconomic phenomena. While we typically treat reported forecasts as statistical expectations, under uncertainty the ... -
Maverick Neuroscientist: What Does a Life in Science Look Like Outside the Ivory Tower? : Dr. Eugenio Vargas-Pena is a renowned psychiatrist in Paraguay, who conducts neuroscience research without university ties, funding, or peer review. ls his embodiment of the gentleman scientist an alternate path for those who want to break away from institutionalized science?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-09)This longterm narrative investigates the life and work of Dr. Eugenio Vargas-Peña, a neuropsychiatrist in Asunción, Paraguay who built a fully functional lab in his countryside home. Vargas-Peña conducts brain research ... -
Machine Learning Systems for Unsupervised Time Series Anomaly Detection
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-09)Modern assets – from launched satellites to electric vehicles – output dense, multivariate time series data that must be monitored for deviations from “normal” behavior. This monitoring task is referred to as time series ...
