AABoyles is the handle of Anthony A. Boyles, a Computational Social Scientist based out of the Washington D.C. metro area. Tony works to develop analytic tools for policy-making. These include data collection aggregation and analysis, optimization problems, and prediction tools.

Who I am

Contact Details

If you have reason to do so, please feel free to email or call (1.617.935.5515) me. I try to be as open and transparent as I can.

What I do

Computational Social Science

• System Dynamic Modeling
• Agent-Based Modeling
• Political Event Data Mining

Programming

Besides Computational Social Science (which is my passion), I'm also a capable full-stack web developer. It's the medium for many of my products.

• Server-side development in Python, PHP, Hack, and Node.js
• Client-side development in HTML5, CSS3, Javascript. I always reach for jQuery and LoDash when I start a new project.

What I don't do

Sarcasm

(This passage has been adapted from User:Academian's profile)

On the LessWrong, I am never being sarcastic (on the wider internet, I don't make that promise). If you're already worried you're being tricked with meta-sarcasm, then you understand my complaint. I believe sarcasm is often too difficult to perceive in writing, which leads to terribly uncomfortable situations and reduces the volume of valuable conversation which otherwise would have been had.

So please, just relax.

I am publicly pre-committing to sincerity because I value being understood. In particular, I consider optimism a valuable commodity, so I never portray it sarcastically. If I say "Good for you" or "Thanks a lot" it's because I actually mean it.