Unfortunately I felt pretty sick during my last day in Riyadh, so while resting all day I listened to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!
First was a slate of talks at the CEPR - Centre for Economic Policy Research Tilburg Macroeconomic Conference:
Diego Restuccia - "The Micro and Macro Productivity of Nations - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUU19Ujr4ok
Kjetil Storesletten - China's Economic Slowdown - highly recommend
Andrej Mijakovic - Income Inequality and the Rise of Risky Capital
Yuki Yao - Income Taxes and Entrepreneurship
Minchul Yum - Parental Leave Policies, Fertility, and Labor Supply in South Korea - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_ZMQgRSEW4
Next was a group of talks at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing:
Ofer Feinerman - Nest construction by weaver ants and cognition without a brain - highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlhUE1qPHtE
Shimon Ullman - Pre-language learning of conceptual structures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN57iQ8-THs
Vikram Gadagkar - Natural behavior is learned through dopamine-mediated reinforcement - highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC6UDztd5QQ
Eva Dyer - large model pretraining on neural data and task transfer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuoBwdMAmLs
Yossi Yovel - animal sociality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIpCfuGRsoo
Omer Tamuz - modeling social learning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seEdb41zGn4
Next was an incredible talk by Varun Rao on the labor impacts of gig work platforms and their underlying algorithms at CITP Princeton. Stay till the end for a heartwarming tribute to Andrés Monroy-Hernández! Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM2Fu7Md-Zs
Next was a great talk by Minghui (Scott) Zhao on edge sensing with micro drones at the The Athena AI Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGNaR2Ft3uI
Next was a selection of talks and discussions at the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics:
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg - Geography of Human Capital https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmX1T-4ZiXY
Virginia Minni - How Managers Shape Careers Inside Firms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vxuYdMxNMs
Raghuram Rajan - Corporate Governance, Community, and Political Economy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzt4BjaynlA
Next was an amazing talk by Jevin West at Ai2 on examining the model collapse phenomenon at larger scales, proposing some compelling mitigation strategies. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb9akKpDAbY
Next was an interesting talk by Louis Fendji on the datafication blind spot in African AI policy at the Data Science for Social Impact (DSFSI) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVewfjWgqrY
Last was a great talk by Amelia Acker on the history of archiving machines at the Oxford Internet Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgarrZE1E2A
