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by charlescearl 6y ago
We just want justice. We need to ask how and why people found themselves in “underrepresented” and “marginalized” categories in first place. Piketty [1], Katznelson [2] (white people are happy to go along with set asides and actions to addr
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by charlescearl 6y ago
Nice! It is also worth mentioning that in addition to the work at Clark Atlanta University, Spelman, and Morehouse, there is Black leadership in computing at Georgia Tech. Charles Isbell is the Dean of the College of Computing and Ayanna Ho
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by charlescearl 6y ago
Just a note that Georgia Tech http://www.gradadmiss.gatech.edu/62-or-older allows those over 62 to take graduate and undergraduate classes tuition free.
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> Besides massacring nursing homes, and having the potential to infect many vulnerable patients and providers in hospitals, it painfully emerges as yet another disease of inequality
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I've glanced at an approach augments an existing document by adding likely search terms generated by BERT model specialized for Q&A https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~jimmylin/publications/Nogueira_Lin_... Do you h
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by charlescearl 7y ago
It has always been hard to reconcile the rhetoric that labels the “Democrats” as “elites” who are against the “working class” or “under class”. Especially as the grandson of sharecroppers and “maids” and a relative of many other Black folk
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by charlescearl 7y ago
"Integrated" in my experience seems to be a contested term: - During my elementary school and the first part of my high school years, there were attempts in Atlanta to de-segregate schools via busing of students from Black to whit
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by charlescearl 7y ago
On the one hand this seems to highlight the lived reality of many of us — moving from a segregated to more integrated neighborhoods brings its own set of issues. In my case moving out of a middle class Black “food desert” into a more “diver
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A Profile of N.K. Jemison(newyorker.com)
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by charlescearl 7y ago
Has anyone experimented with ClojureCL [1]? It claims to run on MacOS. [1] https://clojurecl.uncomplicate.org/articles/getting_started....
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by charlescearl 7y ago
Rodney King? Black Lives Matter? There are still areas of Chicago and Detroit and Los Angeles that bear the scars of mass and violent unrest if you look closely enough. One of the most venerated U.S. representatives was severely beaten [1]
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There was a recent episode of the New Economics Foundation podcast “The Myth of Meritocracy” [1] that had a lengthy discussion in the U.K. context. I read a little of Jo Littler’s “Against Meritocracy” [2] book. [1] https://newec
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The first public academic to my knowledge to begin crystalizing the problem of private prisons and the prison industrial complex was Angela Davis [1] -- I first remember hearing her address this in a 1998 lecture at Northwestern. Ruth Wilso
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It's a start. Thank you Ruth Wilson, thank you Angela Davis https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/magazine/prison-abolition... https://books.google.com/books/about/Golden_Gula
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Gender and Racial Bias in Cloud Sentiment Analysis(data.blog)
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Hey sorry, point taken. I have read chapters and was excited about it, but I see your point. Thanks for the suggestions. I found the book more readable than hopcroft ullman from the perspective of understanding what happens in "theoret
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by charlescearl 7y ago
Go ahead and get your free copy of Avi Wigderson's Mathematics and Computation https://www.math.ias.edu/avi/book . Broadly speaking there are two types of "CS Theory": 1. "What is computation and wha
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by charlescearl 7y ago
It is reminiscent of the WPA of the New Deal. In the U.S. these efforts have historically been undermined by racism. “When Affirmative Action was White” ( https://www.amazon.com/When-Affirmative-Action-White-Twentie... ) make
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by charlescearl 7y ago
What are good Haskell codebases (or videos) to read through if you have a passing knowledge and want to improve?
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I am surprised that no one mentioned the Greenbelt Movement, a grass roots effort started in neighboring Kenya by Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai [0]. They have successfully planted millions of trees over the years to combat deforestation. T
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by charlescearl 7y ago
The maps at the exhibit referenced[1] were fascinating. I know people often criticize topics that surface anything remotely concerning race, as there is a “race to the bottom”, but I often find that I learn a lot just by the fact-checking t
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Using Big Data to Solve Economic and Social Problems(opportunityinsights.org)
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The U.S., Great Britain, and France also have a historical legacies of African slavery that factor into this perception. In the U.S., the effective enslavement of African American women as domestic workers with $8/day wages lasted well
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As Cameras Track Detroit’s Residents, a Debate Ensues over Racial Bias(nytimes.com)
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Facial Recognition Based Policing in Detroit(detroitmi.gov)
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Abigail Echo-Hawk on the art and science of 'decolonizing data'(crosscut.com)
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In Britain, yes https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/stop-and-frisk...
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> My theory is that they can't attribute issues in their life to things like racism/discrimination, so they perceive failures in their own life as their own fault rather than the fault of a racist society. Maybe your saying tha
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Naw, we're pretty depressed by the structural racism thing. https://www.nimhd.nih.gov/docs/byomm_factsheet02.pdf
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by charlescearl 7y ago
Especially given it was a class, great work. Appreciate that the GitHub is accessible and transparent.

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