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Shaleen Khanal retweeted
Application for the @KelloggInst postdoctoral visiting fellowship (1 year and renewable for a 2nd year) is now OPEN! As a postdoc I had 100% uninterrupted time to further my research. Kellogg has a great community of scholars studying Global South. Deets:tinyurl.com/mry4p7wd
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The University of Vaasa (@univaasa) has an open Tenure Track position (Assistant Professor or Associate Professor) in Public Governance. More here: academicpositions.com/ad/uni…
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🚀🚀New article "Building an AI ecosystem in a small nation: lessons from Singapore’s journey to the forefront of AI" by @rosalingrad @hongzhou
and @ArazTH published in @HSScomms explains how a small nation can build a robust AI ecosystem through strategic policies and government stewardship. 🌐🤖
Read more: doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-0…
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Singapore #TechPolicy #AIResearch #AIEcosystem #PublicPolicy #Policy
In this recent article , @ArazTH, @rsis_zhang and I discuss diffusion of AI policy in China. We find that provincial governments share the national government's economic goals but not necessarily political goals in AI development. Open access link here: doi.org/10.1080/10670564.202…
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🌐🤖🔍 "Development of New Generation of Artificial Intelligence in China: When Beijing’s Global Ambitions Meet Local Realities" by @rosalingrad @rsis_zhang & @ArazTH published in Journal of Contemporary China explores the crucial role of local governments in China's AI surge 🇨🇳🤖.
Article highlights how private sector capacity & political authority shape policy diffusion, and the complexities of central-local relations.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ChinaAI #TechPolicy #LocalGovernment #PublicPolicy #Centrallocal #PolicyDiffusion #Governance
Read the full open-access paper here: doi.org/10.1080/10670564.202…
New paper with @rsis_zhang and @ArazTH on the role of Big Tech in policy process is out in @PolicySociety. Please find the published version here:
doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puae0…
Shaleen Khanal retweeted
Are you interested in measuring the impact of weather/climate on outcomes of interest? Do you observe the weather variables at a higher frequency? Wondering how you should choose between different models and their implied climate projections?
Pleased to share our recent JoE+code
Our paper on BRI is out @jcpsjournal. Here @rsis_zhang and I examine scholars' perspectives on BRI. We find significant geographic differences in academic narratives on the project. We also highlight Chinese gov's role in shaping these narratives.
doi.org/10.1007/s11366-023-0…
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The University of California, San Diego invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Data Science and Public Policy:
higheredjobs.com/details.cfm…
#PAJobMarket
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"We construct a dataset consisting of real Reddit profiles, and show that current LLMs can infer a wide range of personal attributes (e.g., location, income, sex), achieving up to 85% top-1 and 95.8% top-3 accuracy at a fraction of the cost (100×) and time (240×) required by humans." arxiv.org/abs/2310.07298v1
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2023 study: “Our thesis is that a primary cause of the rise in mental disorders is a decline over decades in opportunities for children and teens to play, roam, and engage in other activities independent of direct oversight and control by adults."
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🚀 KDI School is hiring! Tenure-Track positions in:
1️⃣ Data Science
2️⃣ Strategic Management
3️⃣ Development
🔍 I'm on the search committee!
🌍 Vibrant research environment, fantastic colleagues & a diverse international student body.
For more, see apply.interfolio.com/130014
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Friends and colleagues, help us spread the word about the exciting Green Skills & Future Jobs Essay Competition 2023!
We're looking for talented graduate and post-graduate students to share their vision for a green future.
#IES #GreenSkills2023 #EssayCompetition #Sustainability
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Who’s trapping poor countries in debt?
It’s Wall Street and London. Vast majority of external debt of low-income countries are owed to private lenders (light blue in chart below).
That’s the real debt trap. Not China, whose share is only about 10%.
These loan sharks don’t forgive loans. They demand blood and flesh.
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"Harris told the room that with $800 and a few hours of work, his team was able to strip Meta’s safety controls off LLaMA 2 and that the AI responded to prompts with instructions to develop a biological weapon." washingtonpost.com/technolog…
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📢 We are hiring a new Professor in Sociology!
We're looking for an exceptional quantitative sociologist to lead in the study of social inequalities.
Apply by September 24.
Find out more here: bit.ly/3DdmJli
#Hiring #AcademicJobs
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The way that Jensen Huang runs Nvidia is wild:
40 direct reports, no 1:1s
- Believes that the flattest org is the most empowering one, and that starts with the top layer
- Does not conduct 1:1s - everything happens in a group setting
- Does not give career advice - "None of my management team is coming to me for career advice - they already made it, they're doing great"
No status reports, instead he "stochastically samples the system"
- Doesn't use status updates because he believes they are too refined by the time they get to him. They are not ground truth anymore.
- Instead, anyone in the company can email him their "top five things" with whatever is top of mind, and he will read it
- Estimates he reads 100 of these everyone morning
Everyone has all the context, all the time
- No meetings with just VPs or just Directors - anyone can join and contribute
- "If you have a strategic direction, why tell just one person?"
- "If there is something I don't like, I just say it publicly"
- "I do a lot of reasoning out loud"
No formal planning cycles
- No 5 year plan, no 1 year plan
- Always re-evaluating based on changing business and market conditions (helpful when AI is developing at the pace that it is)
This org is optimized for (1) attracting amazing people, (2) keeping the team as small as it can be, and (3) allowing information to travel as quickly as possible
Shaleen Khanal retweeted
Radboud University in the Netherlands is hiring an Assistant Professor with expertise in AI & Philosophy of Mind and Language. academictransfer.com/en/3320…
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If I didn’t have roots and an university I adore, I would BEG for this job. Up and coming scholars take note: This is an UNBEATABLE opportunity.
1st hand experience: UH-Manoa is amazing, the faculty are fabulous, the community is unsurpassed, & their faculty housing is amazing!
📢 VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT 📢
University of Hawai'i at Manoa is hiring an Assistant Professor of Public Administration with research or teaching interests in public budgeting, public finance, and/or nonprofit management for Aug 1, 2024. See ad below:
schooljobs.com/careers/hawai…