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MLP in Academia by Alex G (BronyCon Dev 2016)

MLP in Academia by Alex G (BronyCon Dev 2016)

Inky Collective

July 10, 2016
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  1. Overview • Extremely boring technical stuff ◦ Twitter API scraping

    ◦ Weighted network modeling ◦ Calculus • MLP as a data set made the whole thing more accessible and exciting ◦ (and it let me talk about MLP more, too!)
  2. Post-Paper • Got me more in touch with the fandom

    • Made the research more impressive • Got me prizes and stuff • Helped me springboard into other fields • Made it easier to hold interesting conversations • Can talk about horses more • Big data stuff, I guess
  3. The wonderful thing about MLP is that there are fans

    in virtually every field of tech and academia. Celestia hitches a ride to the ISS in 2015 (Luna followed on a nav module shortly after)