I had a great first day at KAPSARC discussing management and valuation, and afterwards I listened to talks (inside, it was 114°F/46°C today) for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was a great talk by Jack Gallant on representation of the world in the human brain at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFwHAMf0kEc

Next was an excellent talk by Catherine Auriemma on returning results to participants in pragmatic clinical trials at UPenn Medical Ethics and Health Policy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9VnPoLncCk 

Next was an intriguing talk by Phillip Isola on pretraining recurrent nets without recurrence at the Simons Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZsBy5Bjx6s

Next was an interesting talk by Boris Kovalerchuk on combining AI and visualization for knowledge discovery at the University of Washington eScience Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED0J6IGrgWo

Next was an incredible talk by Robert Barton on the evolution of different cognitive portions of the brain and why concepts of “higher functions” are anachronistic and fundamentally flawed at the Simons Institute. Also pretty incredible that some people who asked questions during the Q&A seemed to not listen to the talk - supposedly the “top” AI researchers here. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/live/gH9uGxXfOX0?si=3YXmUEIgecYG-kb6 

Next was a compelling talk by Shaimaa Lazem on community-centered practices for African language digitization at Data Science for Social Impact  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoLM1AEAjrY

Last was an amazing talk by Don Herzog on the history of literacy in the West and the implications of that history for our present and future at the LSE. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BLU3C8ULb8