#AcademicRunPlaylist - 5/13/24

I had a fairly busy day, but I was still able to get outside with these two guys and listen to some talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was an amazing talk by David Harvey on Marx, Capital, and economics at the LSE. Harvey provides a good overview on Marx's work, as well as the areas where it fell profoundly short. This has nice parallels to Jacob Soll's work on Adam Smith - in both cases, people quote as gospel thinkers who had huge gaps in their understanding of economics. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY4zfJJDO7U

Next was a fantastic talk by Philip Resnik and Alexander Hoyle on using LLMs to identify and use psychological constructs at the UMD INFO College. This is some of the best work I've seen on using LLMs appropriately - essentially as a tool to label - but that usage can be quite powerful. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8IDi0-3DMo

Next was a great talk by Gert Meyers on the promise and perils of using AI in the insurance industry at Tilburg University https://youtu.be/mhAFmQvvU_E?si=YSKwTJ0Ck9zMwQkn&t=435

Next was an excellent talk by Mario Small on understanding personal networks and the limits of common sense reasoning in social science at the Network Science Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxQlGZkHB0A

Next was a short talk by Keith Wilcox on how busyness affects productivity at Columbia Business School https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIA6p10OX_k

Last was an important talk by Paul Divakar on the challenges reducing caste discrimination through UN action at the Boston Study Group https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc5IJHZooF0