#AcademicRunPlaylist - 7/13/24

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Ben Waber
July 13, 2024

A selfie of me in front of a large pond on a cloudy day. I'm a bald, middle-aged, white man with a red beard flecked with white wearing black sunglasses and a dark blue running shirt. There is a blue and red kayak in the middle of the pond, with a sailboat to the right. Thick forest covers the fall bank, with one house visible, peaking out from the trees.

The sun eventually came out today, which meant I had a nice backdrop while listening to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was a great talk by Henny Admoni on creating robots that learn from and collaborate with people at Princeton Computer Science https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsS9hodfzS4

Next was a short talk by Julia Shvets on persistent overconfidence and memory in managers at the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_3dTM400Mc

Next was an interesting talk by Sanjeev Goyal on learning in canonical networks at Cambridge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFzvAtN6xJs

Next was an excellent talk by Caitlin Mueller on enabling construction of radically new sustainable structures with robots (!) at Princeton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbcnLuaQNqw

Next was a short talk by Maarten De Ridder on market power and innovation in the intangible economy at Cambridge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA53aAyoBbU

Next was a nice talk by Haim Dubossarsky on semantic change in language and implications for natural language processing at UQAM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiWZsVxmuCM

Next was an fascinating talk by Dan Bogart on organizations and efficiency in the UK lighthouse system at Cambridge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XDkki9FC_I

Next was an intriguing talk by Tom Griffiths on using cognitive science tools to understand LLMs at UQAM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIWgFMDJny0

Next was a short talk by Walter Jansson on using NLP to quantify economic uncertainty in the news at Cambridge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbwCEGoeasY

Next was an insightful talk by Stevan Harnad on animal sentience at UQAM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFVYD4xp_eo

Next was a compelling talk by Robert Bennett on assessing spatial concentration effects on employment and profit in 19th century small UK firms at Cambridge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFdU_xnGD94

Next was the National Bureau of Economic Research economic fluctuations and growth symposium, with notable talks by Anders Humlum (incumbent lock-in and entrant leapfrogging in steam power adoption), Conor Walsh (urban-biased growth), and Laura Veldkamp (data and markups) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGOcZ4QMySE

Last was a thought-provoking talk by Pete Klenow on the effects of firms on employment and economic growth at Cambridge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMjNiMYnUCY