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Budgets and rational allocation
Suzy Khimm ran an article today about an interesting study done by the Center for Public Integrity showing that, contrary to commonly-held beliefs about party values and lines, Democrat and Republican...
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Representative Jeff Flake (R-Ariz) led a House vote on Thursday to pass an amendment prohibiting the NSF from funding political science research. His primary reason for prohibiting this funding is...
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Detecting subcommunities within social networks
I’ve been an active member of an online social forum called End of the Internet for a few years now. The site is particularly interesting because it’s both closed off to the public and has been...
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ECLS-K: A general overview
So I’m taking classes this winter and spring; finally on track to finish my BA in math. One of the classes I’m taking is an intro sociology class – one of the overarching goals of the course is to...
View ArticleBit of an update on Animurecs
It’s been a long time since I talked about this, but I’ve been re-writing Animurecs in PHP, having gotten fed up with feeling like I was working around Rails to get things done. Wasn’t an easy decision...
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Spring Break 2013 in Chile
Well this is a few weeks late! My father and I went to Chile for my spring break for about a week – between March 22nd and March 29th – to go hiking in Torres del Paine National Park. We both had a lot...
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Forecasting using seasonal adjustment factors
I just happened upon Analytics Made Skeezy, a blog written by John Foreman, Chief Scientist at MailChimp. He posts every so often detailing various techniques used in analytics, ranging from revenue...
View ArticleWhat’s been going on
So people who’ve known me for awhile know that I’ve taken a long time to finish undergrad – this spring marks my 12th quarter in my sixth year at the University of Chicago, and along the way I’ve taken...
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On the supposed conflict between “individual rights” and “communities”
As part of what is hopefully my last term of my undergraduate education, I’m taking a political philosophy course. As part of the general outline of the course, our professor introduced the broad...
View ArticleOn our summer family trip to Europe – prelude
Our family flew to Europe this summer for a little over two weeks of vacation time. We ended up visiting Paris and three cities in Italy, for roughly three-four days apiece. It was beautiful and...
View ArticleAnd we’re back!
The blog has been down for a ~long~ time, as you may have noticed. Most of my personal sites have fallen into various states of disrepair, and I migrated things over to a new server, which took...
View ArticleCatching us up to 2017
It’s been a long time since my last real update in July 2014. What’s happened since then? Here’s the highlights, month by month. August 2014: Visited Rose Turck in Springfield IL, had a blast hanging...
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