Jeremy Foote
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Jeremy Foote
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Computational social scientist; assistant professor @ Purdue; I study how people self-organize in online communities and how we can make them work better.
Another quick thought about LLMs:

In the real world, we should always assume that "exponential" growth curves are actually logistic curves.

That is, anything that connects to the real world will eventually be resource constrained in some way, and growth will slow...
November 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Perfect weather for freshman move in day 😐
August 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Last day of summer for the kids. Quick trip to Indiana Dunes.
August 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
One interesting finding was the distinction the groups made between individual and group responsibility. The pro-masking subreddit talked much more about responsibility for others, while the anti-masking community thought of responsibility as resting with individuals.

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June 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
This session on causal inference was very good with some well-designed studies.

We should do more causal inference!

#ica25
June 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
My new students brainstorming some project ideas
June 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
We're all trying to find the guy who did this!

www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
May 14, 2025 at 12:44 AM
March 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I have to look this up every semester. Not great UX.

#Brightspace
August 16, 2024 at 6:53 PM