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Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
review of Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Journal of Working-Class Studies (2020)
In many ways, Tightrope is a counter-telling to Tara Westover’s Educated (2018) and J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy...
Post · November 08, 2024
Deadbeat Creditors and Other Tales of Moral Hazard
Some twenty years ago, three years out of law school, my partner and I attended a friend’s wedding in New Jersey. Both of us had racked up a lot of debt and were struggling to find permanent jobs in NYC. I was paying more than half the money I ...
Post · November 08, 2024
When neural network representations converge
In this blog post I explore possible theoretical implications of the finding that trained neural networks tend to show similar internal representations. I riff off of two recent papers; Chen & Bonner (2024), and Huh et al. (2024). In this blog pos...
Post · November 08, 2024
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