Musings on technology and justice
It 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 SalimWe enjoyed perusing Needs market in Gurugram last night courtesy of Bavejas Uncle. So many amazing vegan delights A multitude of dosa options Yes, pistachio milk And Yippee for noodles It was all that and the bag of chips!
Read More All that and a bag of chipsThis elegant gentleman, on his way from a Sunday church service brightened my day and earned my vote for flyest Sunday best of all time
Read More Flyest Sunday bestIf 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!
