#AcademicRunPlaylist - 9/27/24

I had a great time at the Lawtomation conference (although ask me about how I responded to the speaker who advocated for racist technological tools!), and while strolling through the city in the evening I was able to listen to some talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was an interesting talk by Joselito Sescon and Philip Arnold Tuano on the present and possible futures of the Philippine labor market at Ateneo de Manila University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aY0-C86xYg

Next was an excellent panel on the regulation of digital markets in India and lessons for Africa on Vellah Kigwiru's (👋) African Competition and Consumer Protection Centre with Amber Darr and Manjushree RM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFPp_-yqCr4

Next was an intriguing talk by Vivek Venkataraman on social norms underlying collective intelligence in hunter gatherer groups at UCL Anthropology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtcphYid5QQ

Next was a great discussion on what dopamine actually does (hint: a lot) on the Brain Inspired podcast with Vijay Namoodiri and Ali Mojebi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbKEOdbeqHo

Next was a fascinating talk by Camilla Power on how ancient women created the world's first picket line and how that led to modern humans at UCL's Radical Anthropology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9ACH6ix_Ps

Last was an amazing talk by Lee Kezar on modeling ASL using linguistic knowledge infusion at the USC Information Sciences Institute. Kezar shows how different modeling sign language is compared to written languages, the paucity of work in the NLP space here, and introduces some novel, promising methods to move from the standard gesture modeling approach to one that includes linguistic knowledge. Also Kezar clearly states when he's not the person to build an application!!! Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INxlzzNtwI4