A friend recently recommended The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner. It is one of the best books I have read in awhile, so also want to recommend to the readers of my blog. I was vaguely familiar with Bell Labs given my interest in stats and […]| Andrew Wheeler
Most of the major LLM chatbot vendors are now offering a tool called deep research. These tools basically just scour the web given a question, and return a report. For academics conducting literatu…| Andrew Wheeler
Jon Brauer and Jake Day recently wrote a response to my build stuff post, Should more criminologists build stuff on their Reluctant Criminologists blog. Go ahead and follow Jon’s and Jake’s thoughtful work. They asked for comment before posting – I mainly wanted to post my response to be more specific about “how much” I […]| Andrew Wheeler
I have had this thought in my head for a while – criminology research to me is almost all boring. Most of the recent advancement in academia is focused on making science more rigorous – more open methods, more experiments, stronger quasi-experimental designs. These are all good things, but to me still do not fundamentally […]| Andrew Wheeler
It wasn’t by design—not on my part at least—but when I first held a copy in my hands, I was delighted to discover that Flamboyant| Northwestern University Press
