Ancestors

Written by Ben Waber on 2025-01-31 at 03:46

It was incredibly cold today, but since I had to take the car to the shop again (😡) while I was waiting I bundled up and went for good run while listening to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/7)

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Written by Ben Waber on 2025-01-31 at 03:46

First was a great discussion on the productivity trends in the UK's devolved nations with Graeme Roy (Scotland), John Turner (Northern Ireland), and Melanie Jones (Wales) on the Productivity Puzzles podcast https://pod.co/productivity-puzzles/a-productivity-agenda-for-the-devolved-nations (2/7) #economics #UK

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Toot

Written by Ben Waber on 2025-01-31 at 03:46

Next was an interesting talk by David Atienza on accelerator-centric lower power AI architectures at The Athena AI Institute. This is NSF funded BTW, and given how essential this administration thinks AI is you'd think they wouldn't want to torpedo work like this by not paying researcher salaries, as they did today... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOl5xompTnQ (3/7) #AI

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Descendants

Written by Ben Waber on 2025-01-31 at 03:46

Next was an amazing talk by Vishakh Padmakumar on the side effects of using LLMs in workflows at Ai2. This is exceptional research, with Padmakumar first introducing a study that demonstrates high levels of content homogenization when people use LLMs for writing and following it up with a study on professional creative writers showing how LLMs output creates less than useless, cliched content for their work. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACWxtLvSvaA (4/7) #AI

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Written by Ben Waber on 2025-01-31 at 03:46

Next was a nice talk by Max Bazerman on the changing nature of different types of negotiation at the Program on Negotiation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkoQLEZGGPc (5/7) #psychology

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Written by Ben Waber on 2025-01-31 at 03:46

Next was "The Oxford Handbook of IPOs," edited by Douglas Cumming and Sofia Johan. The first half of the book mostly covers various predictors of IPO outcomes from an economics perspective, but starting at chapter 14 the papers start focusing more on the legal framework of IPOs and international comparisons of different regulatory regimes. Highly recommend

Full review: https://bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/review/6450496/s/a-comprehensive-wide-ranging-collection-on-ipos#anchor-6450496 (6/7) #economics #law

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Written by Ben Waber on 2025-01-31 at 03:46

Last was "The Book of Tea" by Kakuzo Okakura. Written in 1906 in English to introduce foreigners to Japanese (and more broadly East Asian) aesthetic philosophy. Tying historical developments around aesthetic practices in the region to their modern descendants, Okakura provides a rich, thought-provoking philosophical view of beauty and life with strong counterpoints to traditional Western approaches. Highly recommend

Full review: https://bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/review/6450523/s/a-classic-introduction-of-japanese-aesthetic-philosophy-to-westerners#anchor-6450523 (7/7) #philosophy #Japan

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