Musings on technology and justice
If you are an infant born to an African American mother in Georgia (also Mississippi or Alabama) your chances of making it past the first year are worse than that of an infant born in Syria. China and Venezuela also have lower infant mortality rates than the 12.5 deaths per 1,000 infants that the Kaiser […]
Read More Why voting in Georgia matters: Black infant mortalityAccording to this story in the Atlantic, the migration of African Americans from the Northeast to Georgia in particular (and the Southeast generally) may be a factor in the November 6 election. The reason it is called reverse migration? In the 20th century more than 10% of the Black population of the South left the […]
Read More Reverse migration and the Georgia electionI know you’ll be back: interpretable new user clustering and churn prediction on a mobile social application I know you’ll be back: interpretable new user clustering and churn prediction on a mobile social application — Read on blog.acolyer.org/2018/10/05/i-know-youll-be-back-interpretable-new-user-clustering-and-churn-prediction-on-a-mobile-social-application/ Interesting paper on mobile user churn prediction at Snapchat
Read More I know you’ll be back: interpretable new user clustering and churn prediction on a mobile social applicationWant to make sure your vote counts in the Georgia November election? Casting an absentee ballot may be the way to go! Federal judge Amy Totenberg (sister of Nina Totenberg if you are an NPR listener) ruled Monday that Georgia could go ahead using insecure paperless voting machines. Although Judge Totenberg concurred with many cybersecurity […]
Read More Vote absentee if you live in GeorgiaMartin Luther King feared fully expected that there would be a backlash as basic human rights for African Americans expanded. There were historic precedents for this such as the reversal of post-Civil War Reconstruction-era freedoms during the last decades of the 19th century and the rise of segregationist laws throughout the southern US during the […]
Read More Avondale Estates is having a backlashA few days ago I attended the talk “Sparsity, oracles and inference in high-dimensional statistics” by Sara van der Geer who is visiting Georgia Tech. The talk is described here. But I didn’t record the talk! I had a working iPhone! I only have an after thought photo of the white board that remained after […]
Read More You should record technical talks!The Foundations of Data Science Boot Camp given last week (August 27 – 31) at the Simons Institute in Berkeley explored how pure mathematics and theoretical computer science are providing actionable insights that the working data scientist can use — or at least ponder. I found the talk below by Ravi Kannan useful in pointing out how dimensionality reduction […]
Read More The science of data scienceMy colleague Boris Gorelik continues to deliver the insights of a data science sage. You should study carefully his recent EuroSciPy 2018 talk “Data visualization: from default to efficient” Then check out his notes on how to continuously improve a talk.
Read More Sage advice on visualizationMy partner Dr Gayatri Sethi is interviewing celebrated writer and illustrator Yuyi Morales today at the Decatur Book Festival today, Saturday, September 1 from 1:00 to 1:30. They’ll be discussing Morales’ new book Dreamers. Isn’t it time you talked to your children about what is going on at the border? Dreamers talks about Morales’s own 1994 […]
Read More Gayatri interviews Yuyi Morales at Decatur Book FestivalIf you teach/study computer science at a Historically Black College or University, or know of someone who does, please check out and pass along the site https://charlescearl.github.io/ai-hbcu/. I put it up a year or so ago to document the work being done at those institutions to increase the impact and participation of the African Diaspora in […]
Read More AI at HBCUs Fall 2018
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