
Dr Ben Blum-Smith Black Lives Matter
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Dr Ben Blum-Smith Black Lives Matter
@benblumsmith
Supreme Professor Headmistress of Maff, according to my college bestie | he/him This account is not very active
New York Katılım Ocak 2017
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1) Math knowledge is democratic in character.
2) Math can be used to strengthen democracy.
3) Even if you never use math, it is relevant to you b/c people are using it to make decisions about you.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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Sister's album dropped startwithquestions.com
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Last @NYUDataScience Math & Democracy Seminar of 2025: Zarina Dhillon on evaluating methods to quantify racial segregation. Tomorrow at 5:30pm ET. Sign up here (requires a [free] account): researchseminars.org/talk/MathandDe…
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Tomorrow @NYUDataScience Math & Democracy Seminar: Dr. Daphne Skipper on geographic access to polling. 5:30pm ET. Sign up here: researchseminars.org/talk/MathandDe… (make a free account)
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New @NYUDataScience Math & Democracy Seminar: Bailey Passmore of @hrdag on "Public Data & Human Rights". Tonight 5:30pm ET. Sign up here (make a free account): researchseminars.org/talk/MathandDe…
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Another @NYUDataScience Math & Democracy Seminar in 80 minutes! Matthew Dahl, "Large Legal Fictions: Detecting Legal Hallucinations in Large Language Models" Sign up to view here: researchseminars.org/talk/MathandDe…
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The GOP in Congress is pushing a bill that would require every American to show a passport, birth certificate, or one of a few other citizenship documents every time they register or re-register to vote. But more than 21 million Americans don’t have easy access to such documents. bit.ly/3Xl5Q2H
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@BrennanCenter Please give us some clue as to why 21 million citizens don’t have access…easy or otherwise….to some form of citizenship document.
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@NYUDataScience Math & Democracy Seminar is back in effect. First up: Lalitha Sankar, "Understanding Last Layer Retraining Methods for Fair Classification". This coming Monday, 5:30pm ET. Open to the public; sign up here (make a free account): researchseminars.org/talk/MathandDe…
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Appreciating @SamWangPhD 's pro-democracy substacking samwang.substack.com/p/same-day-vot…
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Michigan’s recent reforms ensure that voting is accessible, election subversion is further out of reach, and democracy is strengthened. bit.ly/4fSQD0m
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This whole thread is lovely (h/t @_onionesque)
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@LongFormMath ok so basically the Forrest Gump of the 19th century
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I asked AI to simulate Évariste Galois’s carrer if that fateful moment never happened.
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I asked AI to simulate Derrick Rose's carrer if that fateful moment never happened.
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This is tomorrow! Open to the public <- that means you!
Dr Ben Blum-Smith Black Lives Matter@benblumsmith
One more @NYUDataScience Math & Democracy Seminar, this coming Monday @ 5:30pm ET! Cory McCartan, "Estimating Racial Disparities When Race is Not Observed". Sign up here! researchseminars.org/talk/MathandDe… (requires a [free] account)
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One more @NYUDataScience Math & Democracy Seminar, this coming Monday @ 5:30pm ET! Cory McCartan, "Estimating Racial Disparities When Race is Not Observed". Sign up here! researchseminars.org/talk/MathandDe… (requires a [free] account)
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In one hour! See you there?
Dr Ben Blum-Smith Black Lives Matter@benblumsmith
Next up in the @NYUDataScience Math & Democracy Seminar: Abigail Hickok and Mason Porter on using topological data analysis to analyze equity in polling place access! Sign up here (requires a [free] account): researchseminars.org/talk/MathandDe…
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