Complexity of Matrix Computations Seminar
Crunching the Matrix
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Boundless Conversations for Boundless Liberation: Review of Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness edited by King, Navarro, and Smith
Originally posted on Ancillary Review of Books:
Boundless Conversations for Boundless Liberation: Review of Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness edited by King, Navarro, and Smith Sneha George Under Review: Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness. Edited by Tiffany Lethabo King, Jenell Navarro, Andrea Smith. Duke University Press, 2020. [W]e often assume that…
Means to an end
Safety predicated on police terror is neither safe nor sustainable.
Read More Means to an endInterview 27: Racial discrimination and fair machine learning
Originally posted on Boris Gorelik:
I invited Dr. Charles Earl for this episode of my podcast “Job Interview” to talk about racial discrimination at the workplace and fairness in machine learning. Dr. Charles Earl is a data scientist in Automattic, my previous place of work. Charles holds a Ph.D. in computer science, M.A. in education,…
U.S. Police Can’t Stop Killing
Map: 1,500 people killed during interactions with police in the 9 months since the killing of George Floyd on May 25, 2020. Data from Fatal … U.S. Police Can’t Stop Killing For anyone holding in to the delusion that a new administration would mean the end of the on going war on Black life, a […]
Read More U.S. Police Can’t Stop KillingThe Atlanta University Center Data Science Initiative
The Black Revolution in Data Science has begun
Read More The Atlanta University Center Data Science InitiativeUnderstanding the Ongoing Farmers’ Protest in India
Panchali Kar gives a deep and thoughtful analysis of the on going farmer’s protest taking place in India. The scale od solidarity in the midst of oppression is truly inspiring. by Panchali Kar If we take a close look at the BJP government, we get a clear picture of its thoroughly reactionary stance. Working class […]
Read More Understanding the Ongoing Farmers’ Protest in IndiaBlack In AI 2020 call for papers
The call for papers for the Fourth Black In AI conference is out! Submissions are due on October 2. If you’re not familiar with the Black In AI conference, its primary goal is to promote and sustain the development of Black and African researchers in the data science, machine learning, and AI communities. From the […]
Read More Black In AI 2020 call for papersSurveillance 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 scientistChristo Wilson Discusses the Ethics of Online Behavioral Experiments
Originally posted on Data for Breakfast:
On May 1 of 2019, Dr. Christo Wilson gave a talk on his investigation into online behavioral experiments. The talk was based on a piper entitled Who’s the Guinea Pig? Investigating Online A/B/n Tests in-the-Wild, which he and his students gave at the 2019 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Atlanta,…
