This Fourth of July is yours, not mine
Rethinking the fourth
Read More This Fourth of July is yours, not mineAuthor: charlescearl
Data scientist
The city of Atlanta doesn’t use facial recognition — so why does Delta Airlines?
Opt out of facial recognition
Read More The city of Atlanta doesn’t use facial recognition — so why does Delta Airlines?Using ML for Campaign Optimization: Our Journey to Marketing Science at Automattic
There is an emerging approach to marketing called Marketing Science — a discipline which “transforms marketing efforts so that they are grounded in data and science”. My colleague Demet Dagdalen explains how she and Yanir Seroussi put science to use in building a machine learning pipeline for marketing campaigns.
Read More Using ML for Campaign Optimization: Our Journey to Marketing Science at AutomatticQuestions I never asked my father about London
Keeping my father’s memory of a world at war
Read More Questions I never asked my father about LondonCuba as a prayer to inclusion
As the current administration of the U.S. continues to place restrictions on travel to Cuba, my heart aches, and my mind goes to back to amazing days that we spent in Havana and Trinidad last summer. A year later, impressions remain with me. Walking the streets of Habana and Trinidad, one is left optimistic on […]
Read More Cuba as a prayer to inclusionAfter the rain — 15th arrondissement
Do we need prisons?
Should we end prisons? I have been thinking through this question since reading a recent New York Times article on Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s efforts to dismantle, if not slow the role of, the prison industrial complex. Her focus has been the California prison system and has a book you should check out called The Golden […]
Read More Do we need prisons?San Francisco passes facial recognition ordinance
San Francisco recently passed an ordinance controlling the use of facial recognition in the city. The ordinance was in large part thanks to the pioneering research of Joy Buolamwini. The argument against the technology is twofold: first, the technology is highly invasive in public spaces and may constitute a direct threat to basic (US) constitutional […]
Read More San Francisco passes facial recognition ordinanceViennese murals
Seen along the Danube.
Read More Viennese muralsLiberté for Georgia
Buy a French dessert, I’ll donate to ACLU!
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