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Assistant Professor at Santa Clara University, studies rebels, revolutionaries, and protesters. he/him/his
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Just finished teaching a course at the Text Analysis Pedagogy Institute on text classification with large language models. It’s for anybody, but oriented towards humanists. We identify whether Jeopardy questions reference literature! Course materials here: github.com/erikfredner/...
GitHub - erikfredner/tap-2024: Notebooks for 2024 Text Analysis Pedagogy Institute course on text classification with LLMsgithub.com Notebooks for 2024 Text Analysis Pedagogy Institute course on text classification with LLMs - erikfredner/tap-2024
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Yes, the French just showed us that strategically resigning to consolidate anti-far right coalitions is a winning strategy. There's a winning anti-Trump majority in US, too, but it requires a candidate other than the one who 75-80% feel is too old to do job. bsky.app/profile/tani...
FRANCE UPDATE: The near-final list of candidates who are in the French runoffs is out. Two days ago, 311 districts were going to have 3-way or 4-way runoffs. Then, 200+ candidates dropped out to block far-right. So: There'll be "just" 91 such runoffs this coming Sunday.
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New article from me on civil war violence in Nicaragua, focusing on violence by FSLN govt forces in 1980s, the need to look at violence committed by more restrained groups, & need to consider different explanations at different levels of analysis. polisky conflictsky academic.oup.com/jogss/articl...
Levels of Analysis and Variation in Civil War Violence and Restraint: Ideology and Contestation in Nicaraguaacademic.oup.com Abstract. How can we analyze violence against civilians in civil wars over time and with attention both to local context and international comparability? I
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One of my favorite in-class exercise ideas that I've stolen -- introduces surveys but really makes them think about operationalizing concepts. #TeachLearnSky
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