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Jan. 13, 2022
The course, taught by mathematics lecturer Gene Kim, focuses on the probability calculations behind various casino games and daily fantasy sports.
By Jasmine Kwan
Feb. 3, 2020
Adrian Liu critiques Facebook's privacy practices, reflecting on whether or not the general thesis held by privacy scholars that often informs consent — the idea that privacy involves transparency and choice — is a viable privacy model for internet platforms.
By Adrian Liu
Nov. 22, 2019
On June 18, Facebook formally announced plans to build Libra, a cryptocurrency available to Facebook users around the world, in partnership with high-profile companies like Visa, Stripe, PayPal, Uber, and Lyft.
By Avery Rogers
March 7, 2022
Professor David Palumbo-Liu writes that Russia's invasion of Ukraine is part of a complex history that must be acknowledged and argues that war created by global hegemons causes irreparable damage to ordinary people. "It is time to think of people — not regimes, alliances and the expansion of power for the already powerful, at deadly cost to everyone else," writes Professor Palumbo-Liu.
Nov. 8, 2019
According to Fiesler, the “I am just an engineer” problem is caused by the common way computer science is taught, which treats ethics as its own specialization. She thinks ethics should be taught as part of the technical practice, rather than in its own class as is done at Stanford.
By Dilara Soylu
Dec. 29, 2022
From Pusha T and Nas to Loyle Carner and WIL$ON, 2022's quasi-Renaissance in hip-hop has something for all fans, chronicles columnist Nick Sligh.
By Nick Sligh
Oct. 25, 2019
“Complexity Theory” is a series on ethics and technology, a collaboration between Stanford students with a range of backgrounds but a shared worry. We aim to shine more light on the apparent intractabilities, the technical subtleties, and the real difficulties of technology ethics.
By Adrian Liu
April 29, 2022
Are college students ready to settle down? The answer to that question could depend on the responses to more than 500 potential questions. While layers of immense complexity underlie this matchmaking algorithm, it remains unknown how much the mystery of human connection can truly be predicted, allocated to best use or replaced by abstractions in a machine.
By Matthew Turk
Nov. 1, 2019
What if we instead considered: how should we think about privacy standards, and by such standards, how did Facebook fare? What we find, I will argue, is that Facebook used a notion of privacy tailored to its own practices, and one out of line with our considered intuitions on what it should mean to protect privacy.
By Adrian Liu
April 27, 2021
Choosing the name “theorizing” for the main activity of one’s life can often be met with suspicion. A theoretician spends their life on thinking, whereas good life requires living. It seems that thinking all the time and living stand in contradiction.
By Kamil Aftyka
May 18, 2021
Cynthia Arrieu-King’s “The Betweens,” released in March of this year from Noemi Press, is a short experimental prose memoir about this “indeterminate” in-betweenness of being biracial.
Oct. 28, 2019
There is one dimension in which Stanford has largely neglected to do work to foster inclusivity in the computer science departments. Stanford students who are not from marginalized backgrounds are often never made to confront the ways that they unintentionally make spaces unwelcome for students from marginalized backgrounds in tech.
June 3, 2021
Structured like an autobiography, Siegel’s book offers valuable insight into his student activism at Stanford and activism throughout his post-grad life, coming from someone who has dedicated his life to reform.
By Hana Dao
Feb. 24, 2021
Aren’t what we call emotions something of idealized literary objects? How accurate is it to say “love” when it carries with it fractions of dependence, envy, desire for possession or hate when hate often implies fear and so respect and so admiration?, writes Nestor Walters.
May 3, 2021
March 16, 2021
In the spirit of Women’s History Month, Reads beat writers suggest some of their favorite female-authored texts, each of which offers unique and complex insights into themes of gender and being a woman in the world.
Feb. 15, 2021
Well … Episode 5 of “WandaVision” was absolutely crazy. “On a Very Special Episode …” cuts back and forth from the real world, featuring the S.W.O.R.D. and F.B.I. agents, and the “pocket universe” of the sit-com, this time 1980s themed.
Feb. 16, 2021
If anyone can be described as the intellectual figure of this generation, it’s ContraPoints.
April 19, 2021
Of course, the appeal of video games transcends “living life at low stakes.” They also allow us to construct and inhabit different versions of ourselves, writes Sanjana Friedman.
Dec. 10, 2020
Stanford researchers are tackling the technical and ethical public health challenges that come with the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine.
By Athena Xue
