#AcademicRunPlaylist - 5/4/24

Boston's cherry blossom season continues, making a great backdrop while I listened to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was a great talk by Sid Redner on the appearance of random walk phenomena in many aspects of the world at the Santa Fe Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKlmeELXVi4

Next was an excellent talk by Daniela Witten on double dipping in statistics at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics. Witten points to double dipping, rather than the p-value itself, as one of the causes of the replication crisis in the sciences (IMO it's incentives, but this matters too) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiv--XjPl9M

Next was a thought-provoking talk by Varsha Kishore on measuring similarity in NLP settings at the Allen Institute for AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAMHHMczKCE

Next was an engaging slate of talks at the New York University School of Law with Wendy Ng (China's anti-monopoly law influences), Viktoria (Vicky) Robertson (market definition in law and economics), and Anne C. Witt (enforcement of article 101 of the TFEU) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDQ9ZnQEPd4

Next was an interesting talk by Ingo Scholtes on understanding network abstractions of systems at the Network Science Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVUnHtuHEos

Next was an informative talk by Berit Brandth on the evolution of the Norwegian paternal leave system and its effects at the Alliance Manchester Business School https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ODO_rqIdNk

Last was a fantastic talk by Dan Awrey on deconstructing derivatives at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. Awrey's deep dive on the relationship between Goldman Sachs and AIG prior and during the 2008 financial crisis and the legal mechanisms and incentives at play was fascinating and extremely clarifying. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o89jdp9nKwI