Ben WaberI had a break in my schedule yesterday, which gave me a bit of time to go on a shorter run and listen to some talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/9)
First was the 4th workshop on open world vision at #CVPR2024. I highly recommend the whole event, and I particularly liked the talks by Walter Scheirer (open issues in open world learning) and Deva Ramanan (open world learning and large mutlimodal models) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTBRrMn9fOU (2/9) #AI
23595 Visual Perception via Learning in an Open World
Next was an interesting talk by Guhan Subramanian on legal mechanisms to deal with economic issues in business transactions at the Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRsm3ZlBHKM (3/9) #law
Deals: The Economic Structure of Business Transactions
Next was a fantastic talk by @saxon on rigorous measurement of multilingual and multicultural abilities in generative AI at Ai2. Saxon has done incredible work in this area, and this talk builds on that to demonstrate how to systematically quantify gaps and improvements in these models in important areas. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e3kB1YR488 (4/9) #AI
Rigorous measurement for multimodal, multilingual, and multicultural systems
Next was the 2nd workshop on generative models for computer vision at #CVPR2024, with notable talks by Katerina Fragkiadaki (image and video perception with generative feedback) and Andrea Vedaldi (3D generative AI) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEaSNJOpfsU (5/9) #AI
23672 - 2nd Workshop on Generative Models for Computer Vision
Next was a short conversation on how effectively skills and jobs are matched across the world with Oriana Bandiera and Ilse Lindenlaub on the @voxdev podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkLbWl7Ah6A (6/9) #economics
How meritocracy varies across the world
Next was an intriguing talk by Kris Franscisco on how improved inter-island transport connectivity in the Philippines affected local employment and job quality at Ateneo de Manila University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYjBEgLYR8A (7/9) #economics #Philippines
Improved Inter-Island Transport Connectivity, Local Employment and Job Quality.
Next was an engaging discussion on Sekou Bermiss's Lit Review podcast with Timothy Kundro and Nancy Rothbard on the interaction between gender and power in the effects of moral objectors in organizations. As one might suspect, powerful men fare better than others, and framing moral objections in terms of organizational benefits tends to be more effective than other approaches https://thelitreview.podbean.com/e/the-lit-review-an-amj-podcast-tim-kundro-nancy-rothbard-s4e1/ (8/9) #management #psychology
The Lit Review: An AMJ Podcast | Tim Kundro & Nancy Rothbard (S4E1) | The Lit Review - An AMJ Podcast
To kick off the 4th season, I have two esteemed guests this episode, Tim Kundro and Nancy Rothbard, co-authors of the 'Best Paper' published in AMJ in 2023. In our conversation, we talk we talk about Tim and Nancy’s recent award winning paper recently published in AMJ which explores how power can protect moral objectors in organizations, but shows that this protection operates differently for men versus women. We discuss how the importance o morality in organizational leaders and whether modern corporations are structured to be “amoral”. Check out the post-credit scene to hear Nancy tell the story about her lived experience at the Best Paper Award announcement event this summer in Chicago. Guests: Tim Kundro, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at Kenan-Flagler Business School at U of North Carolina. Nancy Rothbard, David Pottruck Professor at The Wharton School at the U of Pennsylvania. Paper: Kundro, T. G. & Rothbard, N. P. 2023. Does Power Protect Female Moral Objectors? How and When Moral Objectors’ Gender, Power, and Use of Organizational Frames Influence Perceived Self-Control and Experienced Retaliation. Academy of Management Journal, 66(1): 306-334. https://journals.aom.org/doi/full/10.5465/amj.2019.1383
Last was "The Value of Everything" by Mariana Mazzucato. This book provides, with a few exceptions, an excellent overview of the assumptions that have been baked into modern economics - in particular, the conflation of price and value - and the problems that creates for economic policy. Overall, this book is an excellent addition to the canon of modern economic thought.
Full review: https://bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/review/5325326/s/a-compelling-position-on-modern-economic-policy-and-thought#anchor-5325326 (9/9) #economics
Dr. Ruchira S. Datta@bwaber Came across _The Value of Everything_ (which we cited) in researching our book, _Career Dharma: The Natural Art of Work_. Seconding the recommendation: _The Value of Everything_ is worth a read (so to speak).