Updated paper at: lia.epfl.ch/~goel/papers.h…

New paper with Cyril van Schreven and Boi Faltings Infochain: A Decentralized System for Truthful Information Elicitation arxiv.org/abs/1908.10258 #blockchain #ethereum #AI #DataScience #data

Google Scholar seems to be altering scholarly citation patterns. Citations are getting more concentrated: the same few papers get cited over and over, @jevinwest has found. People lazily cite whatever papers the search engine ranks highly. #metascience2019

Useful perspective for research. Novelty is overrated; refining, communicating, and validating ideas are underrated. Researcher evaluations in industry labs get at some of this—impact is often as/more important than publications. Would like to see more incentive for scholarship.

New blog --- Infochain: A Decentralized, Trustless and Transparent Oracle on Blockchain link.medium.com/bqQC1lvZg6

Reviewers automatically assume that simple is not novel. This is sheer laziness. Yes, it may be simple and obvious in retrospect, but someone had to have that insight first. Simple is good. Simple is robust, easy to implement and reproduce, broadly applicable, etc.

The paper is also available here: lia.epfl.ch/~goel/upload/d…

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Looking forward to sharing some of our recent results (joint work with Amit Sharma, Amit Deshpande and Alfonso Amayuelas). #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEthics #fairness #bias

In the newest ETH Center for Law & Economics vlog episode Prof. Alessandro Acquisti alessandro acquisti from Carnegie Mellon University discusses the difficulty of protecting privacy in the digital age with Dr. Naman Goel Naman Goel youtube.com/watch?v=CsTAYs…

How can causality help machine learning? Turns out it can help for many challenges, incl. OOD generalization, explanation, fairness, and privacy of ML models. Slides from my talk at Data Science Campus Thanks Arthur Turrell for inviting! amitsharma.in/files/causalit…

Wrote some notes summarizing my first impressions of web3: moxie.org/2022/01/07/web…

Very interesting! + the kids are super smart. #AI #Artificial_Intelligence

#LatePost Last month, I moved to University of Oxford Oxford Comp Sci Human-Centred AI at Oxford :-) Grateful to have the opportunity to work on the EWADA project led by a dream team: Nigel Shadbolt Tim Berners-Lee electronic Max JunZhao🐨 Reuben Binns @[email protected] & many other great scholars. ewada.ox.ac.uk

My open letter marking the Web’s 35th birthday addresses the erosion of the web’s core values and resulting power imbalances that are influencing transformative technologies, reshaping geopolitics and driving economic shifts. The time to act is now. 👇 medium.com/@timberners_le…