Guest post by Sander O’Neil https://sanderoneilclock.tiiny.site/ This is a follow up to this post https://mathbabe.org/2015/03/12/earths-aphelion-and-perihelion/ from 2015 also try other experiments on my website: https://mroneilportfolio.weebly.com/analemma.html This JavaScript program is a clock/map/single star-star chart in the style of...
This is a guest post by Victor Zhenyi Wang. Victor worked as a data scientist in global health and development at IDinsight India. He is currently a Masters student at the Blum Center for Developing Economies at UC Berkeley. He is interested in technology policy, participatory approaches to AI, and digital public infrastructure. He studied […]
C: Tell me a little bit about your college experience. How did you get interested in this work originally? E: Good question. It kind of started for me in high school actually. I took my first philosophy class when I was 16 or 17, and I loved it. But one of the things that we […]
You have probably heard that Google had to suspend it’s Gemini image feature after showing people black Nazis and female popes: Well I have a simple explanation for what happened here. Namely, the folks at Google wanted to avoid an embarrassment that they’d been involved with multiple times, and seen others get involved with, namely […]
Who knew that CBS works for Silicon Valley? And yet, when I watched their show Eye on America this morning, that’s what I discovered: an entire hour devoted to hyping the likes of Meta and Boston Scientific. Titled Emerging AI and robotics tech, the hour was devoted to asking the most powerful folks in BigTech […]
Do you guys remember when I was a plaintiff in a New York State lawsuit against the tampon tax? My blog was entitled, Holy shit I look amazing holding tampons After that I even designed and knitted a hat to go along with the theme: Period Equity Tampon Hat! Well my best friend Laura Strausfeld […]
This morning my thought is pretty simple: abortion is seen as a woman’s issue, which of course it historically has been, but with the advent of paternity tests, it could easily and quickly become a man’s issue. Back before abortion was legal, and especially if the women were unwed or otherwise shameable, the fathers could […]
Last week I read this paper entitled “Black-Box Access is Insufficient for Rigorous AI Audits” with some excitement, since I do black box algorithmic auditing at my company and I was looking forward to knowing what more I could do with even more access. Also, it was written by a bunch of smart people from […]
I’ve been on Wegovy now for seven months. I’ve lost a ton of weight – about 60 pounds – and my risk of getting diabetes has gone way *way* down. I think it’s a total fucking miracle. But there are people on the left and the right that hate what’s happening. I have been observing […]
It’s kind of amazing but here we are: a food columnist writes about how diets are shams, how they statistically don’t work, and they play on people’s desires to live a different life – all good things to point out – and yet – yet!! – the piece ends with her describing how she, in […]