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Lydia Chilton

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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I'm getting my PhD in Computer Science at the University of Washington. My work focuses on crowdsourcing. In the next 10 years, crowdsourcing is going to change education, labor markets, information architecture, and the way we waste our time online.
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Why are jokes funny?

By Lydia Chilton

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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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Are jokes just a violation of our expectations?

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Exisiting theories for why jokes are funny

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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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