#AcademicRunPlaylist - 7/9/24

Today was a bit hectic, but I was still able to get in some talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was a thought-provoking talk by Karl Friston on the concept of a Markov blanket characterization of the separation of internal and external agent states at UQAM | Université du Québec à Montréal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB14z0PCO-4&t=6s

Next was an interesting talk by Caroline Hoxby on quantifying the economic effects of higher education at the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nIUj01W2_U

Next was a fascinating conversation with George F. K. Werner on the economic history of the Durham tobacco industry on the Business Scholarship Podcast. There's a ton here with clear parallels to industry today - early examples of "platforms" in the form of warehouse operators, technological disruption through machinery to automate cigarette production, and the effects of monopsony power. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnO3axzQX3k

Next was a great panel on the linguistic and computational complexity properties of LLMs at UQAM with Charles Yang, Roni Katzir, Karl Friston, Virginia Valian, Judit Gervain, and Haim Dubossarsky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLrFtq-pb2Y

Last was an engaging symposium on regional economic development in Indonesia at the Crawford School of Public Policy with Iwan Jaya Azis (the limitations of economics and regional development research - FYI the sound is fairly scuffed for the first ~10 minutes of the talk), Syafruddin Karimi (social justice in macroeconomics), and Budy P. Resosudarmo (mixed methods in economics) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HUSh374qto