This is such a frustrating thing about my area of Oakland (described below in the SF Chronicle). Not sure how this problem gets solved.

Let people play with AI & they will figure out some of what they need to do. This cool experiment found that people naturally adapt their prompting style to more sophisticated AIs, using simpler prompts for DALLE-2, but making them complex as they learned DALLE-3 could do more.

me every time i’m at an academic conference and people wanna know about the cool bars

Has anyone ever seen this guy and Carson (Survivor S44) in the same room at the same time?? Just asking questions here.

Cool things happening at Motif Analytics!

I highly recommend submitting to WoPA 2025 if you study platforms. I attended a couple of years ago and am now on the program committee. It's a high-quality event with great papers and discussions: platformanalytics.org Submissions are due Dec. 4!

is anyone talking about the fact that 1/3 of the rumored survivor S47 cast are podcast hosts

The Sims, User Manual (2000)

At first I thought this was a post meant to inspire PhD students then I realized it was from Scottie Pippen.

Absolutely shook learning that Vijay Gurbaxani is not the only Taco Bell professor!

So at Academy of Management 2024, my dear student & co-author Matteo Tranchero won the Newman dissertation award. This is the highest award a dissertation could get in the academy -- so we at Haas School of Business are delighted! If you are interested in joining in his footsteps apply to our PhD

also an accurate description of the bay area

3 paper dissertation be like:

maybe this year is the year! i think this year's tape is even better Jeff Probst SURVIVOR :)

just used my UK passport for the first time 😎🇬🇧

A friendly reminder that abstracts for Conference on Digital Experimentation 2024 are due on Sept. 6! It's a big tent and we welcome work from all different fields. Please send us any work that is related to digital experimentation, we'd love to take a look!

Underrated (maybe most optimal?) era of music discovery was seeing someone else’s iTunes library on your dorm’s LAN network. Mysterious, local, curated, finite, with the possibility of a meaningful IRL connection

“They asked if I had a plan. I said I had a concept of a plan.”

Exciting news: we’re now accepting applications for new PhD students in the Macro Management of Orgs group at Haas School of Business! Our group is extremely diverse and has amazing faculty doing research on topics including digitization, healthcare and culture. haas.berkeley.edu/phd/admissions/

More interesting papers on politics & AI from Valentina González Rostani Nicole Wu, Stephen Chaudoin, Morgan Wack, Daniel Schiff, Kaylyn Jackson Schiff, Tobias F. Tober, David Holtz , Matthias Haslberger, Jason Anastasopoulos #AIconference Caltech Caltech LCSSP #Day1