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29 past notesThu, Nov 27th
Cambridge Analytica Scandal
A concise account of how Cambridge Analytica harvested Facebook data from 87 million users, built psychological profiles, and used precision-targeted political messaging during the 2016 U.S. elections, revealing the power of data-driven behavioral manipulation and Facebook’s role in enabling it.
Epistemic Warfare in Elections
A deep narrative excavation of Shivam Shankar Singh’s account of data-driven campaigning in How to Win an Indian Election.
Han Feizi’s Law of Strategic Mismatch
Analysis of Han Feizi’s principle that destruction is inevitable when you attack order with chaos, legitimacy with deviance, or flexibility with rigidity.
Tue, Nov 25th
Information Theory: The Architecture of Uncertainty and Human Power
A detailed introduction to Information Theory with its application in almost whole of the Universe.
The OKCupid Experiment: When Data Met Desire
How Chris McKinlay used Web Scraping and got Lucky.
Mon, Nov 24th
Generative and Discriminative Models
How Generative and Discriminative Models work.
Data-Centric, Not Data-Driven
Why Data-Centric is more appropriate term compared to Data-Driven.
The Symphony of Human Change
An exploration of human emotional volatility and the unconditional acceptance that makes love possible.