Dallas CardThe Gradual Disappearance of TwitterIt was recently reported by inews.co.uk that Twitter is going to start charging academic researchers and institution $42,000/month if they…5 min read·Jun 12, 2023----
Dallas CardAI, software, and governanceIn a recent article covering the FTX collapse, the New York Times described large language models (LLMs) as “an increasingly powerful breed…9 min read·Dec 13, 2022--1--1
Dallas CardHacking LLM botsFor anyone who missed it, a Twitter account named @mkualquiera recently deployed what seems like a kind of adversarial attack in the wild…6 min read·Sep 24, 2022----
Dallas CardReport from FAccT 2022The fifth iteration of FAccT (the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency) was held earlier this month (June 21–24) in…9 min read·Jul 3, 2022----
Dallas CardModular Domain AdaptationDespite their limitations, off-the-shelf models are still quite widely used by computational social science researchers for measuring…5 min read·May 3, 2022----
Dallas CardAI Dermatology: Part 2In the last post, I discussed the possible broader implications of Google’s recent foray into making an AI dermatology tool. In this follow…11 min read·Feb 19, 2022----
Dallas CardAI Dermatology: Part 1Midway through last year Google announced a new foray into the medical technology space, sharing that it was developing an “AI-powered…10 min read·Feb 5, 2022----
Dallas CardVaccine Allocation at Stanford HospitalIn a video that was widely shared yesterday, a representative from the Stanford Medical Center Inventory Care Team spoke to residents…14 min read·Dec 20, 2020----
Dallas CardThe case for professional critics in scienceIn many areas of science, there is an increasingly urgent unmet need, a role that could be simultaneously fascinating, rewarding, and…11 min read·Oct 3, 2020----
Dallas CardRepresentational PowerAlthough it isn’t normally thought of in these terms, taking a photograph involves recording a four-dimensional block of space-time and…12 min read·Jul 21, 2019----