Hesam Talebiyan

Ph.D., Assistant Director @Moodys

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

Statistics of week:

“More Americans pay for sports betting apps (5%) than pay for AI…

37% of consumers say none of AI's uses are helpful.
…
2.2% penetration nearly four years after ChatGPT launched. Netflix hit 25% household penetration in a similar timeframe.“

[Mark Zandi @Markzandi]

Interest rates have steadily risen since the start of the Iran War, and are an increasingly heavy burden on the economy. The 10-year Treasury yield, which had dipped below 4% prior to the start of the war, is now flirting with 4.7%. Borrowing costs have jumped, including the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, which is up from under 6% to over 6.8%.

[Toni Kroos @ToniKroos]

Football won

[Mark Zandi @Markzandi]

$1,000.

That's what the Iran war has cost the typical American household so far — at the pump, at the grocery store, in higher mortgage rates, and in what we're spending as taxpayers.

And the total keeps climbing.

Full piece in The Philadelphia Inquirer: https://t.co/1a8IN4EFOy

[Hesam Talebiyan @HesamTalebiyan]

So, there is potential for incentivizing real-world decision-makers to increase their cooperation to boost #resilience, especially in the case of #civil #infrastructure networks.

[Hesam Talebiyan @HesamTalebiyan]

Check out our paper recently published in Risk Analysis (with Leonardo Dueñas-Osorio) entitled "Interdependent network restoration games with incomplete information and bounded rationality":
https://t.co/FwARO1s4W4

[Hesam Talebiyan @HesamTalebiyan]

Here, we show that when it comes to #decision_making for the #restoration of #interdependent_networks, not only is cooperation the key to gaining near-optimal decisions, but agents also have incentives to act cooperatively.

[Fareed Zakaria @FareedZakaria]

America’s top universities should abandon their long misadventure into politics, retrain their gaze on their core strengths and rebuild their reputations as centers of research and learning.

My take:

[Hesam Talebiyan @HesamTalebiyan]

We show #auctions can boost #interdependent_networks #resilience by efficiently guiding #restoration resource allocation.
Our more general point is #decision_making tools can enhance the resilience of real-world #networks (e.g. #infrastructure) on top of physical retrofitting.

[Hesam Talebiyan @HesamTalebiyan]

Check out our latest paper (with Leonardo Dueñas-Osorio) entitled "Auctions for Resource Allocation and Decentralized Restoration of Interdependent Networks":

https://t.co/NEcfOBv3ve

[Moody's - Insurance Solutions @RMS]

"The #insurance industry has to step up...and play our role in devising an insurance system which works for [uninsurable areas]."

Michael Steel talks to @iankmsmith at @FinancialTimes on the growing issue of ‘uninsurable’ areas.

Read the article here: https://t.co/pOFwVLtHlN

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Announcing GPT-4, a large multimodal model, with our best-ever results on capabilities and alignment: https://t.co/TwLFssyALF

[Visual Capitalist @VisualCap]

Global Energy Consumption by Source, and Carbon Emissions (1900-2021) 🏭

VC Creator Program's @genuine_impact examines the complex relationship between energy production, consumption, and related carbon emissions ✅

https://t.co/uldHgF1wEx

(1/4) The World’s Energy Mix 🌎

[Visual Capitalist @VisualCap]

Did you know that approximately 25% of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions come from electricity generation? ⚡️

This infographic from our sponsor @_NPUC ranks the largest investor-owned utilities by emissions per capita.

Find out more below:
https://t.co/YR1bRhhUX0

[Programmer Humor @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R]

Why is this so true https://t.co/4LoVSfOpdr

[Hesam Talebiyan @HesamTalebiyan]

Today marks my last day @RiceUniversity. After 6 wonderful years, it is time for me to take on a new challenge @RMS as an Emerging Risks Modeler.

[Hesam Talebiyan @HesamTalebiyan]

@MichaelEWebber I have no doubt that there were qualified female applicants. My point is that, given that more than %75 engineering Ph.D. students are men, it is entirely plausible that we see an outcome like this. And it becomes even more plausible if we factor in the externalities.

[Hesam Talebiyan @HesamTalebiyan]

@MichaelEWebber Here is a crazy theory: given the current climate, male applicants feel they need more preparation to land an academic position. So, they pursue such opportunities more aggressively. I absolutely don't know if this is the case. But it is worth thinking about.

[Hesam Talebiyan @HesamTalebiyan]

@MichaelEWebber First, this is a program to prepare grads/postdocs for the academic job market. So it is more about sending them out of Texas :)
Second, people apply for these fellowships. So, without knowing the number and credentials of applicants, we can say nothing about possible biases.