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Mercury ran a profile of me last week, written by Brooke Jackson-Glidden, which is generous and gets the thing I care about right.

Almost two years ago I wrote a post here about a repo called sky-feeder, which at the time was about four days old and consisted mostly of a JSON schema and a great deal of optimism.

If the original sin of Web 1.0 was the pop-up ad, the original sin of web 2.0 was the move to algorithmic feeds.

There's no shortage of analogies for explaining what an LLM is capable of - one of the best, though, is from this New Yorker article proclaiming it as a "blurry JPEG of the web".

Long short-term memory models (LSTMs) are a family of neural networks that are predominantly used to predict the next value given a historical chain of previous values.

Recently, I gave a talk at the PIE/Autodesk space to help contextualize some thoughts that have been percolating with regards to the nascent introduction of API-based, widely available LLMs like ChatGPT.

Over the summer, I got really interested in the Helium network.

Big news!

For the past year, I've been increasingly focusing on what I have come to call "sociotechnical security" - whereas "technical security" seeks to identify and remove unintended flaws in the architecture of platforms, "sociotechnical security" is all about…

About 10 days ago, I saw a post for a ridiculously cute car of a make and model that I previously did not know existed: I knew about MGBs and how they had a fairly terrible reputation but this thing looked so slick.

@TAP_deals is a bot on Twitter that uses machine learning to extrapolate the estimated value of a plane based on historical trends from listings of all other planes on Trade-a-Plane.com.

Large-Scale Missing Data in a Widely-Published Reddit Corpus As researchers study complex social behaviors at scale with large datasets, the validity of this computational social science depends on the integrity of the data.

I bought a Raspberry Pi a while back without much of a plan for what it would ultimately work on.

Background On December 5th, the following tweet passed through my timeline: The DudeBro Tournament 2016 pic.twitter.com/z8Ei56dBKX— DudeBroWatch👮🚨 (@DudeBroTourney) December 6, 2016 Embedded JavaScript To which I replied: @NateSilver538 please run some br…

When I first heard about Amazon Lambda, I was skeptical.

Building a Network of Conversation Points Over the summer, I spent the summer working with a good friend Gilad Lotan as a data science intern at Betaworks.

This last week, I attended a several day seminar about combating online harassment, saw an academic friend get an award for her book on trolling from the Association of Internet Researchers (you should buy it), and I ended the week by seeing this cover fr…