#AcademicRunPlaylist - 9/28/24

And that's a new distance record for me! I wasn't planning on going that far today, but I ended up going 49.2 miles (~79 km) while running around Madrid! You better believe I also was able to listen to a bunch of talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was a great pair of talks by Sohyeon Hwang (community governance and privacy in decentralized social media) and Seth Frey (complexities of community governance) at Community Data Science https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a4hHp1zTPY

Next was a nice talk by Baxi Chong on mechanical intelligence in locomotion at the GRASP Lab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nRxO3kuKcQ

Next was a compelling talk by Ge Yang on learning robust, real-world visuomotor skills from generated data at MIT Embodied Intelligence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz-EklHnN0o

Next was an interesting talk by Dian Wang on equivariant learning for robotic manipulation at the GRASP Lab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJG83-6CZMY

Next was a fantastic talk by Brian Hare on the "survival of the friendliest" hypothesis at UCL Anthropology. Come for the unique and convincing take on the drivers of human evolution, stay for the bonobo stories. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHJgmllwBzQ

Next was an amazing talk by Favour Borokini on afrofeminist ethics concerns in the design and use of avatars (and generative AI images in general) at the Design Justice Network AI Institute. This is one of those talks that makes you rethink a lot of assumptions about something you thought you had figured out - in this case generative AI images - which makes it that much more important. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/live/B5EuYXXP8F8?si=RbkjfiE-UcDRTtCE&t=2249

Next was an introductory talk by William Dixon on classical economic theories of human decision making at UCL's Radical Anthropology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_4jM5JZJ6Y

Next was a thought-provoking talk by Sasha Costanza-Chock on the purpose and practice of design justice in tech at the Design Justice AI Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT-VGtC0ecg

Next was an excellent talk by Thipe Modipa on digital resources for code-switching in under-resourced languages at Data Science for Social Impact https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2yCyJOK3rU

Last was a fascinating talk by Ian Watts on red ochre and the emergence of homo sapiens at UCL's Radical Anthropology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCg79QK22Ks