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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/

1 min readOct 9, 2022

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Bridge between Tech and Social Sciences

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Nga Than

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…

4 min readJun 10, 2022

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Model Cards for Model Reporting

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Nga Than

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

Nga: Can you start by introducing yourself?

22 min readJan 10, 2022

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Nga Than

Back-propagation

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

1 min readJan 5, 2022

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Back-propagation

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Nga Than

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…

1 min readJan 4, 2022

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Nga Than

Stochastic Gradient Descent

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

1 min readJan 4, 2022

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Stochastic Gradient Descent

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Nga Than

Regularization

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

2 min readJan 3, 2022

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Regularization

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Nga Than

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…

2 min readDec 15, 2021

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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…

4 min readDec 14, 2021

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Cross Validation

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Nga Than

On Death

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

4 min readDec 13, 2020

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On Death

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Nga Than

Nga Than

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

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