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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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Datawocky: More data usually beats better algorithms
This is a great post. I think I’ve seen it from several sources already… Datawocky: More data usually beats better algorithms
Allende’s cybernetic economy project
Wow — teletype machines and cybernetics to run an economy! Before ’73 Coup, Chile Tried to Find the Right Software for Socialism – New York Times (note they mean this version of the word “cybernetics”) And here’s a better Guardian … Continue reading
Quick-R, the only decent R documentation on the internet
For R users or wannabes… I really love R, but it has horrid documentation and a steep learning curve. Recently I was introduced to Quick-R, a really excellent documentation site. I think it’s made the system dramatically more useful for … Continue reading
Spending money on others makes you happy
Yes, Money Can Buy Happiness . . . – TierneyLab – Science – New York Times Blog
color name study i did
Link: Where does “Blue” end and “Red” begin? I’m writing some posts on blog.doloreslabs.com and this is the best one so far. Methodology-wise, along the lines of my earlier Amazon Mechanical Turk moral decisions survey…
data data data
This is a lot of data: Inductio Ex Machina – A Meta-index of Data Sets
Food Fight
Absolutely amazing — a short film chronicling conflicts from World War II — as food. I think this has to have the highest amount of Wikipedia-linkable references per second of any film I’ve seen. Yes, it’s U.S.-centric, but so is … Continue reading
Graphics! Atari Breakout and religious text NLP
From a graphics/mod programming workshop, modifications of “Breakout” in awesome video form: It uses Processing, a framework designed for animation and graphicky things. It was also used for the Similar Diversity visualization that maps out named entities and their common … Continue reading
Moral psychology on Amazon Mechanical Turk
There’s a lot of exciting work in moral psychology right now. I’ve been telling various poor fools who listen to me to read something from Jonathan Haidt or Joshua Greene, but of course there’s a sea of too many articles … Continue reading