Regulating High Frequency Trading: A Simulation
Jul 24, 2019
Authors: Aakash Pattabi and Eric Gilliam
“The world clings to its old mental picture of the stock market because it’s comforting; because it’s so hard to draw a picture of what has replaced it; and because the few people able to draw it for you have no interest in doing so.”
― Michael Lewis, Flash Boys
On a good day the crews were able to lay two to three miles of it in the ground.
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Is free speech in trouble?
Jun 1, 2019
Authors: Toren Fronsdal and Eric Gilliam
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”
- Benjamin Franklin
In April 2017, Ann Coulter, a far-right political commentator, had to cancel an appearance to speak at the University of California Berkeley. The university said it could no longer accommodate her on the scheduled date because of threats of violence. Just months earlier, Milo Yiannopoulos, former Breitbart News columnist, was due to visit the same campus.
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Data is racist. Does it have to be?
May 20, 2019
Authors: Toren Fronsdal, Eric Gilliam, Aakash Pattabi, and Anoop Manjunath
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
- Euripides, Greek Tragedist
We are living in the age of big data. Computers can carry out tasks that were previously unthinkable: beating the best humans at chess or Jeopardy, recommending TV shows, recognizing emotions in literary passages, and even predicting sexual orientation based on Facebook profile pictures.
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Is lack of education really what causes Trump voting?
Apr 30, 2019
Author: Eric Gilliam
Cause and effect are two sides of the same fact
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a narrative fits cleanly in a person’s mind, they have a tendency to believe it a little too easily. The ‘diploma divide’ might be one of these narratives.
The ‘diploma divide’ describes the phenomenon of Trump’s favorability among non-college educated, white voters. The divide is clear. Non-college educated, white voters heavily favored Trump.
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Democrats: Losing Working-Class Economic Trust
Apr 28, 2019
Author: Eric Gilliam
“Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder.” — Littlefinger, Game of Thrones
The Democratic party has been the “Party of the Working Man” since FDR and his pro-worker policies during the Great Depression. However, this title does not carry the same accuracy it used to. While two of the previous three presidents were Democrats, this did little to slow the decline of labor unions.
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Voting Smart: Democratic Primary 2020
Apr 9, 2019
Author: Eric Gilliam
2020 Democratic Primary Over 20 candidates have already thrown their hat in the ring for the Democratic primary. Many of them are making a concerted effort to lay out increasingly progressive platforms to establish themselves as exciting candidates who represent the future of the party. This trend is coming on the heels of the surprising amount of support garnered by Bernie Sanders, an avowed democratic-socialist, in the Democratic Primary in 2016.
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