Ben WaberWell today was a certainly a day, but at least I was able to blow off some steam listening to great talks for my boot-edition #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/5)
First was the second day of the #NBER's data #privacy protection and applied research event. Just like day 1, there are tons of great talks here: investigating accuracy in synthetic data, the effects of differential privacy methods on location analyses, how consumers value privacy, and more. Highly recommend the whole thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhDIqyRY1H0&t=2s (2/5) #DifferentialPrivacy
Data Privacy Protection and the Conduct of Applied Research
Next was a fantastic conversation with David Autor the impact of #tech, #labor markets, and #immigration on wages and the economy more broadly at the #StiglerCenter podcast. This wide-ranging conversation gets to the meat at what really matters for improving on the massive inequality that exists today. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMiG5qFoBUw (3/5) #economics
Can Labor Markets Save Capitalism? With David Autor
Next was an interesting talk by Sheila Russo on soft #robotics for #surgery at #Stanford. This is an important area of research, and the promising experiments here seem to presage a wide variety of these tools improving surgery in the future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw629hk4EV8 (4/5)
Last was a nice talk by Rishi Bommasani on the societal impact of #LLMs and multi-modal models at #CITP Princeton. These large models require new tools for understanding how they're changing over time, and this is one of the first attempts to come up with metrics that can encapsulate those developments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap0jHj4u6BM (5/5)
