Blog Posts

Learning to scope (and also breathe) Apr 15, 2025 — Some idle thoughts in the aftermath of my prospectus defense



One way news practitioners can think about uncertainty in LLM outputs Apr 2, 2025 — Recent write-up on LLMs and uncertainty for the GAIN blog



A prototype newsgathering tool for science journalists Nov 1, 2024 — A recent write-up about work presented at C+J 2024.



Talk + Responses: Blueprints for Evaluating AI in Journalism May 3, 2024 — Notes on my recent talk and related conversations at Aspen Digital's AI & News event.



Talk + Responses: Gender Biases in LLM Narratives Apr 2, 2024 — Notes on my recent talk and related conversations at Big Local News' annual Story Discovery at Scale conference.



19 Mar 2024: Where the Month Went Mar 19, 2024 — Sortings Things Out, The Algorithm, and Bullshit Jobs



Sorting Things Out, by Geoffrey Bowker and Susan Star (2000) Mar 14, 2024 — Lessons on building and changing sociotechnical systems.



2 Feb 2024: Where the Week Went Feb 2, 2024 — The business of the news, new AI regulation, and open-source AI



26 Jan 2024: Where the Week Went Jan 26, 2024 — Turing completion, goodbye to Pitchfork, and a new AI assistant



Reading and Writing Files in Python: Modifiers May 23, 2023 — How modifiers change what you write



BeautifulSoup4Dummies May 19, 2023 — Scraping, analysing, writing out HTML



Two Years into the PhD: Thoughts and Half-thoughts Oct 27, 2022 — Reflecting on two years of trying (and sometimes succeeding) to do impactful research



A Short Primer on Mutual Information Apr 25, 2022 — A conceptual and practical reference about mutual information for forgetful people (me).



Debugging Inside Scikit-Learn Pipelines Aug 17, 2021 — Writing a custom transformer in scikit-learn for debugging pipelines.



My Thesis Experience at Northwestern University Jun 29, 2020 — Advice for Applying for Research Internships Abroad



Hugo Hacks Jun 12, 2020 — Useful Tips for Hosting a Hugo Blog on Github Pages



Lessons From a Massive(ly-Annoying) Scraping Project in Python Sep 16, 2019 — A Long Read about my Undergraduate Thesis Project