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Melissa Dell

@MelissaLDell

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Economics Professor @Harvard. Development economics, political economy, economic history, deep learning methods for data curation.

Cambridge, MA
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Melissa Dell
3 months
Excited to present at #TEC2024 on the potential of embedding models to enrich economic research! Many economists leverage tools like ChatGPT, but deep neural networks hold even richer potential. Embedding models are covered in more depth in my article (Section VIII) #econtwitter #deeplearning
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3 months
Why do some regions thrive economically while others struggle? This year’s Nobel Laureates examine how societal institutions shape prosperity. Explore my column to learn more about how their work has reshaped our understanding of global wealth disparities #NobelPrize2024 #econtwitter
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5 months
Interesting tool to turn research papers into AI generated podcast discussions that provide a high level overview: Fed it some of my papers and it did a very reasonable job, especially with the ML pubs. #econtwitter
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Melissa Dell
7 months
RT @HarvardWCFIA: Attention recent PhDs and advanced doctoral candidates in the social sciences! Apply to our Academy Scholars Program for…
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7 months
Visual communication is key. Thrilled to discover the mini-course "Visual Design in Scholarly Communication" by the phenomenally talented @shannonzshen #econtwitter
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7 months
It introduces deep learning and foundational architectures, such as the transformer, and covers when to use various methods: e.g., classifiers, GenAI, embedding models and regression. Technical details, software resources, and tutorial notebooks are shared via a companion website
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Melissa Dell
7 months
@GlennMatlin We stopped due to copyright law changes in 78.
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Melissa Dell
8 months
Huge thanks to my awesome collaborators on Newswire and LinkWikipedia @EmilySilcock1 @LeanderHeldring @96abhishekarora Luca D'Amico-Wong
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Melissa Dell
9 months
I have had a pre-doc opportunity open up: For those who may have applied to a past position prior to March 1 and are interested, please resubmit your materials. Position combines social science questions with big data and deep learning.
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Melissa Dell
1 year
RT @LeanderHeldring: Empirical political economy’s impact on political philosophy. Nice full page article by @TheEconomist on our recent pa…
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Melissa Dell
1 year
Historical note: Kerr withdrew his resignation a few days later and was reinstated, but ultimately gets fired in 1967. Fascinating to learn about
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1 year
Thanks @pquerubo for suggesting we use AI to query historical articles most similar to 2024 predictions. The model pulled celebrity psychic Jeane Dixon (1969) on Vietnam and a 1931 article on the folly of gloomy prophecies.
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1 year
Also, for hundreds of millions of off-copyright historical news articles, see
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