Earlier this year, it turned out that humans socially evolved cooperation through group competition and conflict. And now, it seems that biased evidence assimilation can happen through bounded rationality. Hooray.
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This is a blog on artificial intelligence and "Social Science++", with an emphasis on computation and statistics. My website is brenocon.com.
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Put my #nlproc parse visualizer on github https://t.co/8H3mTfVA and added @heilman13's Moby Dick parse to the web tool http://t.co/KkxrDnj2
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This looks interesting, there's a special issue on Watson http://t.co/7AbUqPoQ -- but behind a paywall. Any freely available copies? #nlproc
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RT @aedison: I'm getting less and less satisfaction out of making jokes about the hedonic treadmill.
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Put my #nlproc parse visualizer on github https://t.co/8H3mTfVA and added @heilman13's Moby Dick parse to the web tool http://t.co/KkxrDnj2
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- Beautiful Data book chapter
- Announcing TweetMotif for summarizing twitter topics
- Comparison of data analysis packages: R, Matlab, SciPy, Excel, SAS, SPSS, Stata
- Statistics vs. Machine Learning, fight!
- It is accurate to determine a blog’s bias by what it links to
- Turker classifiers and binary classification threshold calibration
- Are women discriminated against in graduate admissions? Simpson’s paradox via R in three easy steps!
- color name study i did
- Food Fight
- Moral psychology on Amazon Mechanical Turk
- It’s all in a name: "Kingdom of Norway" vs. "Democratic People’s Republic of Korea"
- Game outcome graphs — prisoner’s dilemma with FUN ARROWS!!!
- Simpson’s paradox is so totally solved
- 4-move rock, paper, scissors!
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2012- F-scores, Dice, and Jaccard set similarity
- Cosine similarity, Pearson correlation, and OLS coefficients
- I don’t get this web parsing shared task
- Save Zipf’s Law (new anti-credulous-power-law article)
- Histograms — matplotlib vs. R
- Bayes update view of pointwise mutual information
- Memorizing small tables
- Be careful with dictionary-based text analysis
- Information theory stuff
- End-to-end NLP packages
- CMU Twitter Part-of-Speech tagger 0.2
- Good linguistic semantics textbook?
- How much text versus metadata is in a tweet?
- iPhone autocorrection error analysis
- Log-normal and logistic-normal terminology
- Shalizi’s review of NKS
- Rough binomial confidence intervals
- Poor man’s linear algebra textbook
- Move to brenocon.com
- Please report your SVM’s kernel!
- Interactive visualization of Mixture of Gaussians, the Law of Total Expectation and the Law of Total Variance
- Greenspan on the Daily Show
- An ML/AI approach to P != NP
- Updates: CMU, Facebook
- quick note: cer et al 2010
- How Facebook privacy failed me
- List of probabilistic model mini-language toolkits
- Seeing how “art” and “pharmaceuticals” are linguistically similar in web text
- Quiz: “art” and “pharmaceuticals”
- Don’t MAWK AWK – the fastest and most elegant big data munging language!
- Patches to Rainbow, the old text classifier that won’t go away
- Another R flashmob today
- Haghighi and Klein (2009): Simple Coreference Resolution with Rich Syntactic and Semantic Features
- Blogger to WordPress migration helper
- R questions on StackOverflow
- FFT: Friedman + Fortran + Tricks
- Beta conjugate explorer
- Michael Jackson in Persepolis
- Psychometrics quote
- June 4
- Where tweets get sent from
- Zipf’s law and world city populations
- Performance comparison: key/value stores for language model counts
- 1 billion web page dataset from CMU
- Pirates killed by President
- Binary classification evaluation in R via ROCR
- La Jetee
- “Logic Bomb”
- SF conference for data mining mercenaries
- Love it and hate it, R has come of age
- Facebook sentiment mining predicts presidential polls
- Information cost and genocide
- Calculating running variance in Python and C++
- Python bindings to Google’s “AJAX” Search API
- Netflix Prize
- The Wire: Mr. Nugget
- Correlations – cotton picking vs. 2008 Presidential votes
- Disease tracking with web queries and social messaging (Google, Twitter, Facebook…)
- Obama street celebrations in San Francisco
- Twitter graphs of the debate
- Is religion the opiate of the elite?
- Financial market theory on the Daily Show
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Animated
- Blog move has landed
- MyDebates.org, online polling, and potentially the coolest question corpus ever
- PalinSpeak.com
- "Machine" translation/vision (Stanford AI courses online)
- Fukuyama: Authoritarianism is still against history
- A better Obama vs McCain poll aggregation
- East vs West cultural psychology!
- Link: Today’s international organizations
- Bias correction sneak peek!
- Pairwise comparisons for relevance evaluation
- Clinton-Obama support visualization
- Sub-reddit for Systems Science and OR
- conplot – a console plotter
- The best natural language search commentary on the internet
- a regression slope is a weighted average of pairs’ slopes!
- Datawocky: More data usually beats better algorithms
- Allende’s cybernetic economy project
- Quick-R, the only decent R documentation on the internet
- Spending money on others makes you happy
- PHD Comics: Humanities vs. Social Sciences
- data data data
- Graphics! Atari Breakout and religious text NLP
- Will the humanities save us?
- Indicators of a crackpot paper
- What is experimental philosophy?
- Data-driven charity
- Race and IQ debate – links
- How did Freud become a respected humanist?!
- Actually that 2008 elections voter fMRI study is batshit insane (and sleazy too)
- Pop cog neuro is so sigh
- Authoritarian great power capitalism
- neo institutional economic fun!
- Verificationism dinosaur comics
- EEG for the Wii and in your basement
- Dollar auction
- ConnectU.com SQL injection vulnerability: a story of pathetic hubris (and fun with the password ‘password’)
- When’s the last time you dug through 19th century English mortuary records
- Are ideas interesting, or are they true?
- Cooperation dynamics – Martin Nowak
- China: fines for bad maps
- Cerealitivity
- Washington in 1774
- Happiness incarnate on the Colbert Report
- Evangelicals vs. Aquarians
- "Time will tell, epistemology won’t"
- Richard Rorty has died
- Freak-Freakonomics (Ariel Rubinstein is the shit!)
- "Stanford Impostor"
- Rock Paper Scissors psychology
- More fun with Gapminder / Trendalyzer
- Gapminder.org — terrific world data visualizations
- Random search engine searcher
- Evil
- Seth Roberts and academic blogging
- Statistics is big-N logic?
- Feminists, anarchists, computational complexity, bounded rationality, nethack, and other things to do
- Computability and induction and ideal rationality and the simpsons
- Iraq is the 9th deadliest civil war since WW2
- Pascal’s Wager
- When linguists appear on ironic parody talk shows
- The Jungle Economy
- funny comic
- Anarchy vs. social order in Somalia
- Double thesis action
- A big, fun list of links I’m reading
- Two Middle East politics visualizations
- neuroscience and economics both ways
- Social network-ized economic markets
- Rock, Paper, Scissors
- Neuroeconomics reviews
- Lordi goes to Eurovision
- Drunken monkeys experiment!
- Easterly vs. Sachs on global poverty
- high irony
- The identity politics of satananic zombie alien man-beasts
- new kind of science, for real
- Mark Turner: Toward the Founding of Cognitive Social Science
- Libertarianism and evolution don’t mix
- academic blogging
- science writing bad!
- Bush approval ratings
- Kurzweil interview
- cognitive modelling is rational choice++
- Submit your poker data!
- Bayesian analysis of intelligent design (revised!)
- searchin’ for our friend, homo economicus
- balkanized USA
- war death statistics
- guns, germs, & steel pbs show?!
- the psychology of design as explanation
- another blog: cog psych and political/social stuff
- a bayesian analysis of intelligent design
- Statistical inference and social science
- finding some decision science blogs
- Social economics and rationality
- City crisis simulation (e.g. terrorist attack)
- freakonomics blog
- Supreme Court justices’ agreement levels
- $ echo {political,social,economic}{cognition,behavior,systems}
- Modelling environmentalism thinking
- monkey economics (and brothels)
- more argumentation & AI/formal modelling links
- zombies!
- looking for related blogs/links
- idea: Morals are heuristics for socially optimal behavior
- 1st International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA06)
- Online Deliberation 2005 conference blog & more is up!