6-weeks old kitten needs a home in Doha (June 2012)
Pictured here is an adorable and playful 6 weeks old kitten, rescued from the -3 level (basement) of Tornado Tower in West Bay, Doha, Qatar.She was stranded there for several days without food, and no...
View ArticleSocial Media News Mining and Automatic Content Analysis of News
Presentation on November 14th, 2013 at the Tow Center, Columbia Journalism School. (New York, USA).Carlos Castillo: Social Media News Mining and Automatic Content Analysis of News. Invited talk at Tow...
View ArticleShinsekai Yori --- 100% recommended
I just finished watching Shinsekai Yori ("From the New World"). A great, epic, round story. No mechas, aliens, or robots, just magic, friendship, and genocide.The beginning is a sort of queer Tales of...
View ArticleVideo: Tutorial on Algorithmic Bias
The following videos are from the KDD 2016 tutorial "Algorithmic Bias: From Discrimination Discovery to Fairness-Aware Data Mining" by Sara Hajian, Francesco Bonchi, and Carlos Castillo.Part I:...
View ArticleWatch the video teaser for our KDD'18 paper on Algorithms for Hiring and...
Aris Anagnostopoulos, Carlos Castillo, Adriano Fazzone, Stefano Leonardi, and Evimaria Terzi: Algorithms for Hiring and Outsourcing in the Online Labor Market. To appear in KDD, London, UK, August...
View ArticleA personal summary of the past two years
At the end of every year I usually try to write a summary for my travelogue but 2020 and 2021 have been ... special. Anyway, it was interesting to try to summarize two years with a few photos, and here...
View ArticleWhere did you get that skirt? (Actual question I got)
Question: Where did you get the skirt you were wearing? I'm thinking about wearing a skirt myself sometimes.Thanks for asking! I love skirts because they are fun, playful, and comfortable. I also like...
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