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Bridge between Tech and Social Sciences

I was listening to this podcast https://techpolicy.press/contemplating-the-uselessness-of-ai-ethics/

Oct 9, 2022

Bridge between Tech and Social Sciences

Oct 9, 2022

Model Cards for Model Reporting

As I am embarking on the journey as a data scientist in industry, I am eager to learn what the best practices around documentation are…

Jun 10, 2022

Model Cards for Model Reporting

Jun 10, 2022

I had the pleasure of interviewing Eric Dean Wilson, author of After Cooling, and Teaching Fellow…

Nga: Can you start by introducing yourself?

Jan 10, 2022

Jan 10, 2022

Back-propagation

Back-propagation is an algorithm that computes the chain rule (calculus), with a specific order of operations that is highly efficient. —…

Jan 5, 2022

Back-propagation

Jan 5, 2022

When to Use Deep Learning

Most tasks that consist of mapping an input vector to an output vector, and that are easy for a person to do rapidly, can be accomplished…

Jan 4, 2022

Jan 4, 2022

Stochastic Gradient Descent

The insight of Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) is that the gradient is an expectation. The expectation may be approximately estimated…

Jan 4, 2022

Stochastic Gradient Descent

Jan 4, 2022

Regularization

Regularization is any modification we make to a learning algorithm that is intended to reduce its generalization error but not its training…

Jan 3, 2022

Regularization

Jan 3, 2022

Standard Errors

As a sociologist, I work with standard deviation a lot. Standard errors, not so much. Anytime, I run a regression in R using glm or lm, I…

Dec 15, 2021

Dec 15, 2021

Cross Validation

This post is the first of the December Data Science concepts writing challenge that I want to participate in. As I go through the amount of…

Dec 14, 2021

Cross Validation

Dec 14, 2021

On Death

Anthropologists have written a lot about deaths, about how controversial the ways people come to terms with the moment when their loved…

Dec 13, 2020

On Death

Dec 13, 2020

Nga Than

Nga Than

Doctoral candidate in sociology @GC_CUNY, passionate about computational social science, digital sociology, tech & developing countries

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