Emotional Contagion: Contextualizing the Controversy
Note: This is a repost of a blog post about the Facebook emotional contagion experiment that I wrote on People Pattern’s blog. This is the first in a series of posts responding to the controversial...
View ArticleA hidden gem in Manning and Schutze: what to call 4+-grams?
I’m a longtime fan of Chris Manning and Hinrich Schutze’s “Foundations of Natural Language Processing” — I’ve learned from it, I’ve taught from it, and I still find myself thumbing through it from time...
View ArticleIt’s okay for academic software to suck
Bozhidar Bozhanov wrote an blog post titled “The Low Quality of Academic Code“, in which he observed that most academic software is poorly written. He’s makes plenty of fair points, e.g.: … there are...
View ArticleRegarding actions by the police in McKinney, Texas
This is a horrible video of police in McKinney, Texas treating a bunch of kids — I stress, KIDS — at a pool party in a very heavy-handed way, way out of proportion to the situation (the “incident”)....
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Smoke and Mirrors: the odd question of a civil rights leader’s race
Shaun King has been one of the most visible and vocal leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement over the past year. He’s done a great deal to raise awareness in particular of police misconduct and...
View ArticleReferences for my IZEAfest talk
I gave a talk at IZEAfest about the science of sharing. I wove together a narrative based on recent research in social network analysis and some work we’ve done at People Pattern. It was fun preparing...
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Improving race relations: a path forward
The united colors of Baldridge: my hand, my wife’s hand, and our boys’ hands. This a long and personal post about racism in the USA. It’s an outpouring of some of what I’ve felt this past year, with an...
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Simple end-to-end TensorFlow examples
I’ve been reading papers about deep learning for several years now, but until recently hadn’t dug in and implemented any models using deep learning techniques for myself. To remedy this, I started...
View ArticleMy top 100 songs of 2015
Every year, my brother Justin and I each pick our favorite 100 songs that we listened to throughout the year. They aren’t necessarily tracks released that year, but are things that resonated during the...
View ArticleArrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
I just finished Sinclair Lewis’s fascinating novel Arrowsmith, published in 1925 (plain text here). If you are a scientist or are very interested in science, you should consider reading it. Arrowsmith...
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