Lydia Chilton
Seattle, Washington
PhD in Computer Science at the University of Washington B.S. Economics, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Published on Mar 10, 2013
Invited talk at a Seattle bar
30-minute talkLydia Chilton: Why are jokes funny? from Nerd Nite Seattle on Vimeo.“Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.”
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Published on Feb 19, 2013
Are jokes just a violation of our expectations?
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Published on Feb 19, 2013
Exisiting theories for why jokes are funny
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Published on Apr 28, 2012
Designing a Crowdsourcing Experiment
This project starts with the assumption that jokes are funny because they violate our expectations.The first thing we need to do is to test that assumption by having a crowd look at jokes and say w...
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