A few conversations in recent days, as well as a bunch of the reading I did during my holiday writing retreat, have led me back to thinking about generosity. One would think I’d have exhausted myself on that concept, but not even close. In the same way that I find myself continually relearning the same …
Several months ago, I wrote about a presentation on spam in educational Twitter research that I prepared with my colleagues Jeff Carpenter, Matt Koehler, and Bret Staudt Willet. Since that presentation, we’ve been hard at work continuing this project, and I’m pleased to announce that Spam and educators’ Twitter use: Methodological challenges and considerations has is now available “online first” through TechTrends. At …
Something to share with your normie (i.e., non-technical) friends :-) I can’t point to anything specific I learned from the documentary, but I was entertained and interested throughout. For a non-specialist, this is a very good introduction to the topic. See also Manifold Podcast #16 with John Schulman of OpenAI :-) John Schulman is …
My previous post did not age well. After a gorgeous start, Autumn has come to a bitter end here in East Lansing—many weeks before the official start of Winter. We had several inches of snow two nights ago, followed by extreme cold last night. It is quite beautiful, though, as you can see in the …
[This is a working draft of a chapter in progress for an edited collection.] Data-Driven History Digital historians are well-familiar with notion that the larger community of historians generally has been skeptical of and cautious about data-driven scholarship. The controversies surrounding Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman’s 1974 work, Time on the Cross: the Economics of American …