On Dogwhistles, or Putting a Pin in This
Free speech is not consequence-free speech. If you say hateful things and people respond to the hateful things you are saying, you are not being… Read More »On Dogwhistles, or Putting a Pin in This
Free speech is not consequence-free speech. If you say hateful things and people respond to the hateful things you are saying, you are not being… Read More »On Dogwhistles, or Putting a Pin in This
tl;dr I’ve been working on extracting text from the released pdfs of the Facebook Papers. The cleaned pdfs, the extracted text and the code used… Read More »Making Text from the Facebook Papers More Accessible
I’ve been meaning to move to a different mobile provider for years, but the story about how AT&T supports – and continues to support –… Read More »Moving Off AT&T
Since The Markup reporters Lauren Kirchner and Emmanuel Martinez released their story on bias in mortgage algorithms, I’ve been digging into the data behind their… Read More »Mortgage Data, and Working with Large Datasets
The act of proctoring an exam in person is pretty straightforward. I have proctored more than my share over the years. For most exams, the… Read More »There Is No Such Thing as an “Online Proctoring System”
Keeping even a simple web site up to date is work, and anything we can do to reduce the time required is a good thing.… Read More »FunnyMonkey gets a technical facelift