Andrew Piper, "Can We Be Wrong? The Problem of Textual Evidence in a Time of Data" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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Generalization and Machine Learning - What's Next?
i want to talk about how, you know, writing this book and im working on generalization has informed the work you'veeen doing since the book has come out. What we're spending a lot of time in the lab doing now is really trying to think about what we call fiction's functions. We very invested in thinking about the social value of fictional story telling,. using empirical research, but not just any kind wer jus, inusing big data. And so by using these kind of methods, we can begin to understand that much bigger population of made up stories that circulate out in the world.
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