New #NBER working paper out by Yale's Costas Arkolakis and my #Columbia colleague Conor Walsh. The results are stark:

Even though ~70% of Inflation Reduction Act (#IRA) is inframarginal, learning-by-doing effects are *huge*: $100b in spending generate ~$970b of additional GDP "due to cheaper power prices both in the US and
around the world."

Lots of winners. Lots of distributional implications, too, of course. Fossils will fight 'til the very end.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w31615
#climate #economics

Global News BC: B.C. wildfires: Regional District, BC Wildfire to provide update on Bush Creek wildfire https://globalnews.ca/news/9922664/b-c-wildfires-regional-district-bc-wildfire-update-bush-creek-wildfire/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #BCwildfires #livestream #Structures #BushCreek #Columbia #Wildfire #Shuswap #Update #Fire

Do you know a teacher or a grad student who’d like to do a PAID 10-month long part-time internship at #NASA #NYC ?

Both get to work with #NASAGISS and #NASAGSFC and #Columbia Univ. scientists on #climate projects as part of our #ClimateChange Research Initiative. (Must be USA based.)

https://www.giss.nasa.gov/edu/ccri/

High School teachers get to work with a dynamic group of @edutooters and develop K-12 Curricula.

DEADLINE: August 20, 2023

List of projects below:

Next was an interesting slate of talks on using #LLMs for code and dialog generation at the Data Science Institute at #Columbia University with Baishakhi Ray, Zhou Yu, and @vondrick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKjnjBCdIpc (4/9)

Fun conversation with Senator Whitehouse & ex top Goldman risk manager Bob Litterman, at the Columbia Business School Climate × Data conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GONEHj9p8Ak
#climate #ClimatePolicy #ClimateTech #Columbia

Tonight, I (in my mid-40s), was the most senior researcher who

endeavored to go to the “happy hour” social organized monthly by young

#nasa #nasagiss #climate scientists in #nyc #Columbia university

And — knock me over w a feather — met 2! young researchers in this gathering whom I knew 1st from Mastodon, on my own instance of fediscience.org

Grateful for new (young colleague) IRL friends

@sea_ice_bear

@jbuch

www.giss.nasa.gov

#mastodonmigration

@ClimateMigration

Last was a nice talk by @animesh_garg on embodied #AI for generalizable autonomy at #Columbia. The combination of domain knowledge, data, and models presents a holistic view of the challenges ahead to create robots that can interact in more unconstrained environments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAhmLbvlR3w (9/9)

Today @ Columbia Business School: full house for the Climate × Data conference, including date science research, a policy discussion with Senator Whitehouse, etc
#Columbia #climate

Final week of classes, made all the more fun with some amazing guest speakers
#Columbia #climate

Waiting for the elevator futzing on your phone? Go read a @PNASNews paper instead https://gwagner.com/tipping-economics
#climate #Columbia

When you're getting ready to teach your class, and #Windows has different plans
#Columbia

One of the special treats of teaching: learning from amazing guests leading insightful discussions.

This semester, in my Climate Policy class: Ana Unruh Cohen talking US climate policy, Priya Prasad on ASEAN policies, Sugandha Srivastav on power purchasing agreements, and Varad Pande on climate finance in the global south.

#climate #ClimatePolicy #Columbia

One of the special treats of teaching: learning from amazing guests leading insightful discussions.

This semester, in my Climate Policy class: Ana Unruh Cohen talking US climate policy, Priya Prasad on ASEAN policies,
Sugandha Srivastav on power purchasing agreements, and Varad Pande on climate finance in the global south.

#climate #ClimatePolicy #Columbia

One of the special treats of teaching: amazing guests leading insightful discussions.

This semester, in my Climate Policy class: Ana Unruh Cohen talking US climate policy, Priya Prasad on ASEAN policies,
Sugandha Srivastav on power purchasing agreements, and Varad Pande on climate finance in the global south.

#climate #ClimatePolicy #Columbia

One of the special treats of teaching: amazing guests leading insightful discussions.

This semester, in my Climate Policy class: Ana Unruh Cohen talking US climate policy, Priya Prasad on ASEAN policies,
Sugandha Srivastav on power purchasing agreements, and Varad Pande on climate finance in the global south.

#climate #ClimatePolicy #Columbia

PhD defense season at the office kitchen

#NYC #Columbia #spring

Next was an excellent talk by Hila Chefer on transformer explainability at #Columbia. Explaining the output of multi-modal models is challenging, but Chefer's impressive approach seems poised to tackle an important problem. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1tqsEkSoLg (4/9) #XAI #AI

Next was a nice talk by Shuang Li on compositional generalization in #AI at #Columbia. This seems like a promising approach at creating more accurate models, and it'll be interesting to see this space continue to develop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2o4izjBmeo (5/6)

Last was a spicy conversation with Joe Stiglitz on the future of #capitalism at #Columbia Business School. This conversation gets into the many misunderstandings even experts have about capitalism, complete with the quote: "the invisible hand is invisible because it doesn't exist." 🔥I would've love if the conversation got into substantive changes to corporate governance and metrics, but it's certainly enough to whet the appetite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOH5iq7Qkf0&t=1s (9/9)

Next was a nice panel on #workplace changes and the #RealEstate market at #Columbia Business School with Stephan Meier, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Nicholas Bienstock, and Julie Stein. I was particularly interested in Stijn's quantitative insights here, exciting times for offices! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdyJGFKRk2Y (3/6)