Update (4/12/18): The Fox
Hat tip: The Amazing Tyler Cowen
Our favorite line (sung too Cardi B’s Bodak Yellow) is, “The tax code is the worst thing scribbled since Ben Affleck’s back tattoo …”
Below the fold is an extended excerpt from this excellent essay by Kai Stinchcombe: Continue reading
Julia Angwin suggests “four ways to fix Facebook” in this essay. We restate and then critique each one of her suggestions below: Continue reading
Below the fold are two fun quotes comparing and contrasting civil law versus common law approaches to judging via the Volokh Conspiracy: Continue reading
We are so over Facebook, and we don’t use Instagram or Snap, but we have really grown to love Twitter. Below the fold is just a small sampling of some of our favorite Twitter accounts on our Twitter feed (@lawscholar): Continue reading
That is the title of this new paper by our friend and colleague William Baude (@WilliamBaude on Twitter), a law professor and legal scholar at the University of Chicago. The qualified immunity doctrine is supposed to protect public officials from frivolous claims, but in practice, this judicially-created defense makes it next to impossible for us to sue public officials (like police officers) when they violate our constitutional rights (like killing unarmed civilians or breaking into our houses without a warrant). Moreover, Baude’s thought-provoking thesis poses a deeper and more intriguing question beyond the qualified immunity doctrine: what happens when it is the judges themselves who violate our constitutional rights? After all, aren’t judges supposed to hold public officials accountable; not shield them from the risk of litigation, a risk that private firms are exposed to?
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Here are the first two stanzas:
K-nearest neighbors, surprisingly it can slay
Got these I.I.D women so I call them Naive baes
With conditional vision guessing, I guess I should listen
Their predictions more accurate than anything I could say, but waitEqual weighter, I’m never a player hater
Cuz Naive Bayes don’t care about the size of my data, now
Take a second and pause, just so you know what I mean
Y’all tryna muster the clusters I developed with K-Means
Below the fold are the rest of the amazing lyrics for “k-nearest neighbarz” by our new favorite rapper, J-Wong: Continue reading
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