Houjun Liu
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Houjun's Academic Home Page
Last edited: August 8, 2025👋 Howdy, I'm Houjun Liu!
I’m an third year undergraduate student in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, grateful to be advised by Prof. Mykel Kochenderfer. In the course of my research, I have also had the fortunate opportunity to work with Stanford NLP under Prof. Chris Manning, CMU TalkBank under Prof. Brian MacWhinney, and Prof. Xin Liu at UC Davis Engineering. I am affiliated with the Stanford NLP Group and Stanford Intelligent Systems Lab.
house price prediction
Last edited: August 8, 2025house price prediction is a classical machine learning framing problem.
collect data: use a single property (“feature”)—size of the house, in square feet; to learn is the output—price
How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?
Last edited: August 8, 2025A reading: (Krugman 2009)
Reflection
The discussion here of the conflict between “saltwater” and “freshwater” (Keynesian and Neoclassical) economists is very interesting when evaluated from the perspective of our recent impending recession.
One particular statement that resonated with me in the essay was the fact that a crisis simply “pushed the freshwater economists into further absurdity.” It is interesting to see that, once a theory has been well-established and insulated in a community, it becomes much more difficult to parcel out as something that could be wrong.