Musings on technology and justice
Today is January 19, 2019, 1/19/19! The number 1.1919 can be expressed as the fraction and the repeated fraction is . Such a rational day! The number 11919 is itself composite, expressible in terms of the primes 3, 29, and 137. Let’s dive into 11919’s 19 side! The featured image is a 19-sided star, a […]
Read More Happy 1.1919 day!Read on data.blog/2019/01/08/building-thousands-of-reproducible-ml-models-with-pipe-the-automattic-machine-learning-pipeline/ My colleague Demet Dagdelen explains the process of building machine learning models at scale for customer insights at Automattic
Read More Building Thousands of Reproducible ML Models with pipe, the Automattic Machine Learning PipelineI am happy to announce that The Little Shop of Stories bookstore in Decatur, GA is awesome for data science! A few blocks away from us, it is such a regional treasure for children’s books and events. Diane has brought game changing books, authors, and programs to Atlanta and environs. But last week I was […]
Read More The Little Shop of Data Science StoriesSome researchers from African countries were barred from attending last week’s A.I. conference in Montréal due to visa issues. The story is covered in this Wired article The organizers of the Black in A.I. workshop were working around the clock with immigration experts, but at least 40 presenters were not able to attend. Even Justin Trudeau has […]
Read More A.I. without bordersFeeling some despair headed back to Georgia, and the U.S. generally after a month in India. It’s about this question: Will Brian Kemp govern Georgia like Lester Maddox? Lester Maddox became the governor of Georgia during my childhood. He was openly racist, was famous for selling axe handles with which to beat down civil rights […]
Read More Who’s worse Brian Kemp or Lester Maddox?Last weekend we spent a beautiful afternoon with cousins at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Delhi. There was a lecture going on about the divine inspiration of Calculus — a meditation on how both Newton and Leibniz came to discoveries of infinite series and limits that led to the starting point for advanced maths. As […]
Read More Calculus and The MotherBlessings to my mother-in-law for treating us to an amazing trip to Jaipur! The place that I can’t keep thinking about is the Jantar Mantar — the name translates to English as ‘calculating instrument — an astronomical observatory there constructed in the early 1700’s by the Maharajah Sawaii Jai Singh. It’s more like an astronomer’s playground! To behold […]
Read More Jantar MantarIt is an established fact that California is burning due to human instigated climate change, but the devastating impact of pollution upon U.S. indigenous communities is forcing Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw of Louisiana to plan relocation. According to the U.S. National Climate Assessment, the physical, psychological and spiritual impacts upon indigenous peoples will be immense unless there is […]
Read More Trail of Tears: 21st century styleYesterday the world celebrated the birth of Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H.) We visited Fatehpur Sikri the night before. It’s a world heritage site built by Akbar the Great that has so much significance in the Islamic world. Akbar picked this particular site for his palace because it was where Sufi Shayk Salim Chishti — a beloved […]
Read More Mawlid with Shaykh Salim
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