New Post

Author

Tazeem Chowdhury
December 27, 2022

2022-12-27 - Current Research Rotation

Crypto will survive FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried

Today, there are people all over the world committed to cryptocurrency's endurance.

https://www.axios.com/2022/12/27/crypto-will-be-fine-post-ftx

The relentless 2022 news cycle in one chart

For the seventh year, Axios has used Google Trends data to map the rise and fall of America's attention to the year's top news-driving events and topics.

https://www.axios.com/2022/12/26/google-trends-attention-newscycle-year-of-upheaval

Figure 1: search trend spikes for 2022 (Source: 2nd Axios link)

Tweets

Research Citations:

I was re-reading that New Yorker Article by Cal Newport, ahh look closer, yet look closer styll: and I extracted a new gem:

Dyble M, Thompson J, Smith D, Salali GD, Chaudhary N, Page AE, Vinicuis L, Mace R, Migliano AB (2016) Networks of food sharing reveal the functional significance of multilevel sociality in two hunter-gatherer groups. Curr Biol 26:2017–2021

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.05.064

Abstract (open access):

Networks of Food Sharing Reveal the Functional Significance of Multilevel Sociality in Two Hunter-Gatherer Groups

By: Dyble, Mark

Current Biology (2016), 26(15), 2017-2021 CODEN: CUBLE2; ISSN: 0960-9822

Like many other mammalian and primate societies [1-4], humans are said to live in multilevel social groups, with individuals situated in a series of hierarchically structured sub-groups [5, 6]. Although this multilevel social organization has been described among contemporary hunter-gatherers [5], questions remain as to the benefits that individuals derive from living in such groups. Here, we show that food sharing among two populations of contemporary hunter-gatherers-the Palanan Agta (Philippines) and Mbendjele BaYaka (Republic of Congo)-reveals similar multilevel social structures, with individuals situated in households, within sharing clusters of 3-4 households, within the wider residential camps, which vary in size. We suggest that these groupings serve to facilitate inter-sexual provisioning, kin provisioning, and risk reduction reciprocity, three levels of cooperation argued to be fundamental in human societies [7, 8]. Humans have a suite of derived life history characteristics including a long childhood and short inter-birth intervals that make offspring energetically demanding [9] and have moved to a dietary niche that often involves the exploitation of difficult to acquire foods with highly variable return rates [10-12]. This means that human foragers face both day-to-day and more long-term energetic deficits that conspire to make humans energetically interdependent. We suggest that a multilevel social organization allows individuals access to both the food sharing partners required to buffer themselves against energetic shortfalls and the cooperative partners required for skill-based tasks such as cooperative foraging.

But also TLDR, ain't nobody got time to read it all

ML research

Chirag Shah and Emily M. Bender. 2022. Situating Search. In Proceedings

of the 2022 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and

Retrieval (CHIIR ’22), March 14–18, 2022, Regensburg, Germany. ACM, New

York, NY, USA, 12 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3498366.3505816