Nir Avrahamov is currently pursuing two bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and Computational Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
He was born in Israel and raised in Silicon Valley. After college, he hopes to pursue a career in data science. In his free time, he enjoys playing and watching basketball, sketching, hiking and spending time with my friends and family.
In last week's post, we discussed why designing a fully automated fake news detector is currently infeasible and introduced a semi-automated, graph-based solution which would use machine learning to work alongside human fact checkers to scalably flag and quarantine fake news. This post... read more
Regardless of your political affiliation or demographic it’s difficult to deny the effects of the recent fake news boom. The Pew Research Center conducted a survey that found that two in three adults in U.S. believe that the upsurge of fake news has left Americans confused about even... read more