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    Dec 20

    Today, published an exposé by Rodrigo Ochigame (a PhD candidate at MIT) on the invention of "ethical AI" by big tech. Here's why I think it's important to read this piece and share it widely. 1/

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    The invention of “ethical AI”: how big tech manipulates academia to avoid regulation by Rodrigo Ochigame

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    Dec 18

    "The internet is the largest coal-fired machine on the entire planet." Fascinating piece by on the realities of a warming world and the prospects for a greener web

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    Dec 3

    Recently published on Princeton Writes “Tools and Insights” — an essay I wrote on the parallels between coding and writing. Thanks to John Weeren and for encouraging me to write this piece and for the skillful editing.

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  5. Dec 20

    What is this strange & exotic thing called Space to Think? It's been so long, I know ye not.

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  6. Dec 20

    In a nutshell, here's their one line function that returns the datetime for a tweet ID: Does this qualify as somewhat arcane knowledge? Perhaps it's no more arcane than hydrating tweet IDs in the first place though.

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  7. Dec 20

    For more about how to take a tweet ID apart to get its time see 's and & 's

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  8. Dec 20

    While it's technically possible to take a Tweet ID apart and get the time it was sent, might it be useful to distribute tweet IDs with their creation time for use in measuring the reliability of rehydrated data?

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  9. Dec 20

    I just imported plathlib instead of pathlib.

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  10. Dec 19

    Hats off to for asking great questions tonight and letting the candidates tell us what they know.

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    Dec 18

    I don't think impeachment happening today is sad or somber. It's one of the few indications we have a functioning democracy right now. It's like checking for & finding a pulse on the body of democracy despite Trump & co trying their best to strangle the life out of it.

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  12. Dec 18

    Just eyeballing it doesn't seem to be correlated to the number of games per year...but look at that dip during WW2.

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  13. Dec 18

    Another student took a dataset of ~40,000 football (soccer) games (1872-2019) and calculated the average goals per game. He found it has mostly been tracking downwards, and theorized why.

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  14. Dec 18

    Next:

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  15. Dec 18

    But ain't this pretty?

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  16. Dec 18

    Dang, a brussel sprout stalk is basically a piece of wood.

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    Dec 17

    Preparing last slides for tonight's talk on Israeli elections & our counter archive of Facebook's Ad Library. Here's a counter-archivist at work:

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  18. Dec 17

    Bookmark: publiccodenet/governance-game: Interactive game about governance of public code This is an interactive game on governance of Public Code. Use this as a way to get a conversation and reflection about governance started.

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  19. Dec 17

    Seriously though, I (still) love the web because it is a place where you can do something pointless like this on your own website, which you can turn off, or keep on for ~15 years.

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  20. Dec 17

    This is quite possibly my most on point blog post of 2019:

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