Are tiny habits useful?
Tidbits from BJ Fogg’s Tiny Habits
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Data scientist
Surveillance Capitalism and the working data scientist
A data scientist reviews Shoshana Luboff’s book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Read More Surveillance Capitalism and the working data scientistWhy are y’all still protecting racist monuments?
Memorials to the Racist state mark its continued existence
Read More Why are y’all still protecting racist monuments?They tried to bury us, they didn’t know we were seeds
Confronting the Citizenship Amendment Act
Read More They tried to bury us, they didn’t know we were seedsNotes from the Black In AI 2019 Workshop
In early December, I attended the Black In AI workshop (BAI), part of the NeurIPS AI conference held in Vancouver. Timnet Gebru and Rediet Abebe founded BAI three years ago to address the near complete lack of Black and African voices at NeurIPS and other AI conferences. Over that period, the organization has had a […]
Read More Notes from the Black In AI 2019 WorkshopCentering the health of Black women
How my mother’s death forced me to confront racism in healthcare.
Read More Centering the health of Black womenThe stateless quantum mechanics of Abdus Salam
A month back I watched a documentary on Abdus Salam, the first physicist from Pakistan to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. During his lifetime, he made significant contributions to quantum mechanics and was awarded the Nobel for his development of theory of the electroweak interaction. You can watch it on Netflix, here is […]
Read More The stateless quantum mechanics of Abdus SalamThe Color Purple
Reflections on my mother’s life inspired by Alice Walker’s masterpiece and an Atlanta mural.
Read More The Color PurpleMickens family laughter
Joy today from a family of black scientists
Read More Mickens family laughterGender and Racial Bias in Cloud NLP Sentiment APIs
Here’s analysis I recently did of gender and racial bias in cloud sentiment analysis APIs. The takeaway: test before you leap.
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