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License Plate Reader Searches Should Require a Warrant
So while I work with police departments regularly, I think it is critically important that technology be used reasonably. While this may be off-putting to some of my clients, I worked with the Institute for Justice as an expert witness in their trial Schm
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In Defense of Flock
Police cameras can help make the criminal-justice system both fairer and less punitive-if we let them.
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VerusCite: checking academic articles for hallucinations
I have a new app out, VerusCite. With the recent rise in popularity of GenAI tools like ChatGPT and Claude, this has also come along with academics writing slop articles. One of the ways to check that slop is via looking at the articles citations. LLMs ha
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Notes on document processing with LLMs
One of the recent papers that came across my X feed was a researcher digitizing a corpus of old Sears catalogs to estimate inflation more accurately: The technical skills to do this work are closely related to many of the projects I am working on at Gainw
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Podcast with Jeff Asher, AI blog posts
Just a quick update on a few things. I was interviewed on Jeff Asher's Jeffalytics Podcast, mostly about AI and the current landscape in criminal justice: Using Technology to Improve Crime Analysis with Andy Wheeler by Jeff Asher I don't always link to my
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AI writing is better than no writing
AI disclosure - this post was entirely written by myself. I know AI writing is still pretty cringey - so I get that people are quite opposed to it. For people like me though (academics promoting their work, more technical oriented) I would like to proffer
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Notes on Valuing the Cost of Crime
AI disclosure - I used AI to write this blog post. I figure having an AI blog post is better than not writing it at all. I will always disclose though if I use AI to heavily write any content on this blog. (I use it for minor copy editing all the time.) F
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LinkedIn Premium Does Not Boost your Posts
One of my connections mentioned in a post on LinkedIn that since he turned off Premium, his posts have been getting less engagement. Since LinkedIn offers a month for free, and I have been trying t…
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The race to the bottom with AI tools
What we are seeing in the AI startup space is a perfect example of the
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Stop Teaching R. Teach Python.
There has been a slight transition in social science teaching since I have been a student and professor over the past 15+ years. In the aughts, it was still common to teach students in legacy, clo…
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