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  1. Jan 2025
    1. On thecontrary, the data showed that Black women with college degrees suffered more severecomplications of pregnancy and childbirth than white women without high schooldiplomas.

      This is interesting, it relates to some content from a previous class I took about how a lot of data is skewed negatively towards people of color

    1. This database compiles information about more than 36,000 voyages that forcibly transported enslaved Africans across the Atlantic between 1514 and 1866. Search and analyze the database for information on the broad origins of enslaved people, the tortuous Middle Passage, and the destinations of Africans in the Americas.

      This seems really unique in that they were able to save all of this ancient information and put it in an accessible format for analysis.

    1. ecessarily, therefore,our first motions in that direction are likely to be tentative and fumbling.The most interesting direction, to my mind, for this new work to take isin the imitation of the process of literary composition.

      Author believes we should be slow in our acceptance of new tech

    1. The turn-of-last-century British artist William Morris once said you can’t have art without resistance in the materials. The computer and its multifarious peripherals are the materials. The code is the art.

      The author compares computing power to a paint canvas

    1. The vector size of each token equals the number of documents in the corpus. With this BOW approach, a large corpus has long vectors, and a small corpus has short vectors (as in the Surfin’ Bird example above, where each vector only has three numbers).

      This is interesting, they're basically mapping out the frequency of words and then applying statistical analysis