After struggling with Natty's multiple monitor support last week, I thought I'd test my luck again and try rotating screens. My current favorite monitor is the Dell P2411H, a sturdy little 24" monitor that has more degrees of freedom than you'd imagine possible. One of these degrees is the monitor's ability to rotate 90 degrees,
I've uploaded the slides for my talk today at the University of Houston Computational Law Conference. The purpose of the talk, in my own words, is: ... [to] present the set of frames through which I view the relationship between law and computation: "law as computation," "computation on law," and "law and computation." By distinguishing
As I mentioned last week, I'm excited to give a keynote in two weeks on Law and Computation at the University of Houston Law Center alongside Stephen Wolfram, Carl Malamud, Seth Chandler, and my buddy Dan from CLS. The first part in my blog series leading up to this talk will focus on indexing and searching
Later this month, I'll be giving a keynote at a meeting on Law and Computation at the University of Houston. As part of the talk, I'm putting together an example of how I think machine learning and structured data can help build a better legal search engine. For the talk, I'll be building a subset
Well, so much for that #march11 #Saudi day of rage. Whether it was really the "tempest in a teacup" that Prince Al-Waleed suggested on CNBC (video below, transcript here) or not, the oil complex and Saudi markets seem to have shrugged off much of the risk that was priced in after Thursday's rumors of shots.
Last night, I spent a few hours configuring a new OCZ Vertex 2 on my M4500, my primary workstation. It turns out the drive was a dud and I wasted nearly 10 hours rebuilding and debugging the issue, but during this process, I had the opportunity remember how valuable Christoph Gohlke's unofficial Python package site is.
Last week, I posted some R code that downloads the user and timestamp of tweets that contain a given hashtag going back as far as Twitter search will allow. As I noted in the post, the text of these tweets isn’t stored because of encoding issues with R and its JSON packages. A few people emailed asking
I've been playing with Twitter data over the last week, archiving Algerian, Egyptian, Iranian, and Chinese tweets. I thought I'd bring the story a little closer to home this time by archiving tweets from Wisconsin Union protesters on the #wiunion tag. Grab the dataset of 165,593 tweets here, and check out the two figure
I created my RescueTime account in October 2009, installed the client, got confused, and promptly ignored its weekly email until last week. For one reason or another, I was compelled to log back in and check it out. After downloading the client and trying it out on my free account for a few hours, I
Out of all the visuals I’ve produced, I think the "coolest" is the three-dimensional U.S. Supreme Court citation network 1080p movie I produced with Dan Katz (close friend, coauthor, and newly minted law professor!). 3D networks, especially dynamic ones, really invoke the "wow" factor. Movies are especially important in dynamic cases too, since without the animation,
