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What a long Saturday! Luckily I had my dog and a bunch of talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist to keep me company! (1/9)
First was an interesting talk by @joyokim on designing approaches for #crowdsourcing group creative output at #BayCHI. This talk pre-dates the LLM frenzy, and it's instructive to see how we can choose to design technologies that achieve the same output but with very different societal effects https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiQK7TEKJOU (2/9)
Next was an engaging conversation with Sacoby Wilson on ethical participatory data research in traditionally marginalized communities at #UMD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh7Fz4Ni_Uo (3/9)
Next was a wide-ranging talk by Lynne Howarth on how information science is changing over time at #UToronto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rF0lWrlkj4 (4/9)
Next was a thought-provoking talk by @Prof_BearB on hierarchy and conflict between and within countries at the @sfiscience@mastodon.sdf.org. Using network analysis, Braumoeller contends that hierarchies explain more conflict than ideologies, and that ideologies should be sacrificed to avoid conflict, which I'm not sure I'm on board with but gives a sense of how to weigh priorities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3nE_T_r5uw (5/9)
Next was an evergreen talk by Philipp Ager on the effect of #immigration restrictions at the #LSE. Using the US 1920s border closure, Ager meticulously shows the benefits of immigrants for the economy and dispels racist notions about immigrants (that should probably be the null hypothesis IMO). Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO9BUshWNw0 (6/9)
Next was an important talk by Nicola Mulder on the challenges in genomics research in #Africa at the #UNCC. Mulder convincingly argues that genomics research in Africa is important globally, but that the current structures set up to support such research are woefully inadequate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEKXpu5scYY (7/9) #ethics #bioethics
Next was an intriguing talk by Joni Wallis on the #CognitiveScience behind value decisions at #UCBerkeley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBpE_XQQ7y8 (8/9)
Last was a spicy discussion with Evelina Fedorenko on the #language system in the human brain at the #LearningSalon. The key arguments here, that word meanings and processing aren't separated and that artificial networks can serve as useful models of human language processing, do break down during the ensuing debate, but that makes the whole conversation all the more instructive. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsoQFZxrv-I (9/9) #LLMs