Musings on technology and justice
We journey to Lexington, South Carolina to see witness an eclipse. My wife talks to a couple — two White women from Charlottesville, perhaps in their 60’s — they lament the terror that descended upon their peaceful, thoughtful town. A Jewish family lies on the grass next to us, the father discovering the beauty and […]
Read More Labels have been eclipsedI’m building a list of Artificial Intelligence related activity at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). If you would like to add to it, just send me an email. Why am I doing this? Last month in AI and the Souls of Black Folk, I tried to make a case that people from all walks of […]
Read More Artificial Intelligence at Historically Black Colleges (HBCUs)A summary of recent NLP work to enhance support happiness.
Read More May the Bot Be With You: How Algorithms are Supporting Happiness at WordPress.comThe impact of AI on communities of color — particularly through job displacement and policing — is now undeniable. Given that HBCUs have historically been on the forefront of technology education for the Black community, I am proposing to build a list of current activities (courses, research, seminars, clubs, etc.) at the HBCUs relevant to […]
Read More AI and the Souls of Black FolkOne of the many reasons it’s a joy to work at Automattic
Read More Welcoming New Colleagues — a Data-Based StoryThis weekend I was trying to wake my old brain up by looking and the clever and mind-bending problems from my graduate school. I have really gotten excited about Madhur Tulsi‘s Mathematical Toolkit class — as a “data scientist”/”machine learning engineer” (I sometimes wonder what these designations mean — heck I just am grateful to have been able […]
Read More Scheme in 33 MiniaturesSeveral months ago I read Timothy Snyder’s award winning Black Earth, an important but difficult book on the horrific destruction of millions of lives in the “bloodlands” of Eastern Europe during the Second World War. Despite the gravity of the book, there was a deep and eternal hope that I found in its stories of the ordinary […]
Read More Reverence for the righteousNext week, the team I am on at Automattic is meeting up in Tel-Aviv to attend the NetSci X conference. There is so much to be excited about — the opportunity to spend 10 days with colleagues, the interesting talks on network theory and analysis, the opportunity to visit the holy sites of the Bahá’í faith […]
Read More Books on a planeSo I thought I would take the inaugural post on charlesearl.blog to commemorate the great dearly departed Tupac while also dipping my foot into Deep Learning Neural Style Transfer. What?? Style transfer[1] is the AI that powers apps like Pikazo and Prisma — it extracts the style in from one image then re-images a second image […]
Read More Remembering Tupac with (Neuro) StyleI find that Oleg Kiselyov’s blog is a garden of delights for those of us who enjoy Lisp and Scheme. Each post seems like a timeless treasure on things to really know and appreciate about functional programming — maybe programming generally. I am still digesting his Monadic Programming in Scheme because I am still trying to grok Haskell. […]
Read More Things to do in Scheme
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