Social sciences
Predicting History
Social Computing for Social Good in Low-Resource Environments
Mainstream social computing technologies—like social media platforms, online discussion forums, or crowdsourcing marketplaces—have revolutionized how literate people with access to smartphones and the Internet participate in the information ecology and digital economy. However, these technologies…
Employment Demand Forecasting
Using search query data from Bing, we estimate demand for employment across a variety of employment sectors and at county geographic scale in the U.S. We then show how demand for different types of work…
Appendix to What Makes a Great Software Engineer
The Thousand Brains Theory: A Framework for Understanding the Neocortex and Building Intelligent Machines
Recent advances in reverse engineering the neocortex reveal that it is a highly-distributed sensory-motor modeling system. Each cortical column learns complete models of observed objects through movement and sensation. The columns use long-range connections to…
