#Algorithms

I've started a new project called The Americans Project. (@AmericansProj).One of the things that the 2016-2020 era and the pandemic has shown me is that Americans have a terrible sense
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I've spent about three years researching and wrote my MS thesis on algorithmic crime mapping, predictive policing, etc. So I'm going to lay out some things I learned in my
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I’m old enough to remember when Silicon Valley thought that every kid doing self-directed learning via Chromebooks/iPads was the *goal* Billions of dollars invested in “adaptive” learning tech and
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Had an interesting thought today while looking back at this year in #screenwriting...The first producer who read a certain script of mine stopped halfway through and called it too confusing
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If you want better content in the FGC, support the good stuff and leave the garbage in the trash where it belongs. Here's a thread on how to ensure quality
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Post #socialdillema #Netflix reflections: We will not see the social media with same eyes after watching this. It is highly discomforting to hear brutal truths of data mining, marketing algorithms
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It seams @twitter is really reaching new lows, wrt to their account suspending policies (well, algorithms, because it is very unlikely that any human would have suspended this account). Welcome
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Our new paper https://rdcu.be/b5r1Y  shows that the mental models subjects bring into a two-stage task can drastically change their behavior. This thread is teaser of this work lead by @carolfehersilva
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Last week, I had to have surgery for an ectopic pregnancy. I’ve felt every emotion possible. Rage, guilt, hope, grief... but I shouldn’t have had to feel so lonely. The
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Wrong things that I learned as an undergraduate in computer science, either explicitly in courses or implicitly through its culture (or both!), that I have had to unlearn over the
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So you want to be a frontend developer but you don't know where to get started? Create something right away. Get to @freeCodeCamp and work on a few HTML
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the dog bed economy which is eating away at competitiveness and sucking up all our top engineering talent: 1. Google makes algorithms for advertisements (targeted advertisements make up 70% of
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We have explained the importance of changing the tags and why we have chosen to do so. If we continue to use the same tags then they won’t trend, resulting
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GitHub repositories to improve your programming skills. 1. Free Programming BooksFreely available programming books182k Repo:https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books 2. Coding Interview UniversityA complete computer science
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1/6 It’s Halloween! And that means it’s time to talk about the human remains trade on social media! Did you know social media has fertilized a global network of people
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I'm afraid to Google something because I don't want the algorithm to think I like it.I'm afraid to skip a song because I don't want the algorithm to block all
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