I've learned SO much from collaborating with you, Christopher!
Still channeling you each week as I think about how to write with mathematical accuracy & clearly for young minds 🫡

Ramadan Mubarak friends!

Hi Erick, thanks so much!
I'd love to connect, I'll follow up with you via DM.

Thanks so much, Dr. Schneider! Halifax is lovely so far, I'm excited to meet some of the brilliant minds in the city.

Missed you a ton!

Thanks, Mary!

Salaaaam <3

Hi friends!
What a lovely conversation to find when I blew the cobwebs of my account ❤️
Glad to be back in community with you both!!

We have a bookclub at work! I'll tell you about it next week :)

It has actually been the perfect balm to the AI hype cycle - which I've found incredibly annoying lol

Nice!

If you get around to reading it, I would love your thoughts :)

So this is a nice change!

Currently in the middle of the book that details the actual work of dealing with data sets & the details of tagging and categorizing humans. Super technically, academically & ethically interesting!

So far, would definitely recommend.

I'm having an especially allergic reaction to the solo genius narratives and hero's journeys of the STEM world these days.

Very tired of man-vs-tech, socially isolated misanthropes, invisible funding or "lucky" windfalls that let geniuses work unencumbered by problems like rent.

Let me tell you, I was so here for the details of her awakening/disillusionment!

Dr. Buolamwini is now well recognized as an advocate & activist but didn't start out that way. She didn't come into the field hunting for bias. It took time to let go of neutrality & there was a cost to speaking out.

The book is in 5 parts and, along with the tech of it all, follows Dr. Buolamwini's journey from student to expert.

The first 2 parts lay out her personal story, intro to facial recognition tech, & how she was disabused of the idea that the tech space was neutral/a refuge from the world of -isms.

The 2nd episode is a great listen if you want to get a little existential - which is fitting, since it is about zero.

I love Radiolab because an episode about dividing by zero is really about finding meaning in existence.

radiolab.org/podcast/zero...

Thanks, Mark!

Thanks for these recs!