Code and Culture

In my 2014 Sociological Theory, I argued that some things are gross or illegal to buy overtly and so people sometimes find ways to create exchange circuits that obfuscate the transactional nature.

Last year, Charles Lehman and I wrote pieces for the Autumn 2021 issue of City Journal (Charles’s essay, my essay) giving organizational explanations for the rise of woke capital.

A coauthor and I are doing power analyses based on a pilot test and we quickly realized that it’s really hard to calculate a power analysis for anything much more exotic than a t-test of means.

I’ve been reading a lot of OSR games and they remind me a lot of the “traditionalist” phase of the genre trajectory model from Lena and Peterson’s 2008 ASR and Lena’s book Banding Together.

I spent basically all of spring quarter working on advice for colleagues as to how to teach online.

My prediction for what’s going to come for higher education, and particularly the job market is that a repeat of 2008-2009 is the best case scenario.

Given the severe shortage of covid testing capacity, creative approaches are needed to expand the effective testing capacity.

I am doing a simulation in R that generates a list of simulated data objects and then simulates emergent behavior on them.

| Gabriel | Yesterday the Guardian published a list of 34,361 migrants who had died attempting to reach or settle within Europe.

| Gabriel | In response to my review of Ferguson’s Square and the Tower, several people have asked me what to read to get a good introduction to social networks.