I've had a hectic couple of days, but I managed to fit in a run and listen to some talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was a great conversation with Joan Kinyua on Kenya's data labeling industry at Deep Learning Indaba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXSMqRfP9Bg

Next was an engaging discussion with Richard Whish on key trends and cases in competition law at the Digital Markets Research Hub https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOPl4mf-JxI

Next was an important Power At Work panel on the latest developments in US labor with friends of the playlist Seth Harris and Aaron Sojourner, as well Claudia Irizarry Aponte and Bill Samuel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzg3f-sRElw

Next was an interesting talk by Yue Wang on using large models for robotics applications at Stanford https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=popjDuA-whA

Last was "Rules: A Short History of What We Live By" by Lorraine Daston. The middle third of this book is amazing, focusing on the history of algorithms (chapter 4), calculation (chapter 5), and rules and regulations in the age of urban expansion (chapter 6). Daston makes clear how the understanding of what constituted an algorithm, and how much background knowledge one has to bring to the table, changed dramatically over the centuries, as well as how the introduction of calculating machines didn't immediately lead to higher performance without extensive organizational and process reworking. The rest of the book is somewhat hit and miss https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691156989/rules