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I'm hiring pre-docs to work with me and my outstanding team on economic policy research projects. Application info here: siepr.stanford.edu/programs/predo… Deadline is Mon Oct 21, 2024 Econ RA Listings

What's going on out west is absolutely bonkers 10 record highs in a row...and every one of these next 6 days in the forecast is another record high. More than 2 straight weeks with record highs every day

“With the effects of climate change intensifying, the risks and insurance problems associated with them are no longer just coastal—they affect everybody." That's an insurance industry expert quoted in my latest column: newyorker.com/news/the-finan…

A helpful step! As Giacomo Fraccaroli, Neale Mahoney, and Zahra Thabet covered recently in Briefing Book, similar state rules haven’t gotten the job done, so hopefully having a national standard will get firms to adjust: briefingbook.info/p/how-big-is-t…

California's tech job market remains extremely weak—the state has lost virtually all the tech employment it gained in 2021/2022 and is down more than 9k jobs from this time last year

Folks I've analyzed the data. I've combed through the documents. I've spoken to the voters. And I've come up with the incontrovertible truth that if the Democratic Party simply would have adopted all of my own personal policy and messaging preferences, they would have won.

Incredible read about how mobile gambling apps are ravaging Brazil. 20% of a recent social assistance program have been spent on gambling, with some bettors taking out credit at rates exceeding 400% bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Excited to share our new work on causal sensitivity analysis for fairness metrics at #NeurIPS2024! We've developed a causal sensitivity analysis framework to understand how underlying measurement biases (encoded by DAGs) impact machine learning fairness evaluations. 1 / 5

Finished the first semester of the PhD! Celebrated California style by going to the beach with a good book 😎

an actual interesting issue re: fires is how our existing environmental laws, namely NEPA and the Clean Air Act, make it harder to prescribed burns because of their default setting against doing anything/specifically doing combustion

And i wrote a story specifically looking at the Clean Air Act heatmap.news/climate/wildfi…

Legislative Analyst One of the first slides is on wildfire prevention and response funds. Stephenshaw says CalFire’s budget has nearly doubled since Newsom took office.

Today, the US Energy Information Administration updated its short-term projections through 2026—so here's a quick thread breaking down their outlook First, clean power additions are projected to slow down but will remain faster than in any year except 2024🧵(1/5)

Federal lands in most U.S. states are absorbing more carbon dioxide than they emit. But in California, wildfires are causing public lands to spew huge amounts of heat-trapping carbon into the atmosphere, new research finds: latimes.com/environment/st… via Noah Haggerty

Press release stating that the govt is beginning to pull funding from major climate risk assessment and modeling programs at big universities, claiming outright that climate change concerns are made up and do not align with NOAA's current priorities. commerce.gov/news/press-rel…

Cool map from NERC out today showing drivers of electricity demand growth by region -->

How concepts of power in political science and economics can guide geoeconomics research and show coercive economic threats can be understood with basic economic tools, from Christopher Clayton, Matteo Maggiori, and @jschreger nber.org/papers/w33681

🚨 New preprint 🚨 We introduce Generative Distribution Embeddings (GDEs) — a framework for learning representations of distributions, not just datapoints. GDEs enable multiscale modeling and come with elegant statistical theory and some miraculous geometric results! 🧵

4/ With this simple setup, we find surprisingly elegant geometry: GDE latent distances track Wasserstein-2 (W₂) distances across modalities (shown for multinomial distributions) Latent interpolations recover optimal transport paths (shown for Gaussians and Gaussian mixtures)

The largest U.S. grid covering providing nearly 70 million Americans electricity just issued an emergency warning about blackouts ahead of tomorrow's heat.