The 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…Jun 12, 2023Jun 12, 2023
AI, software, and governanceIn a recent article covering the FTX collapse, the New York Times described large language models (LLMs) as “an increasingly powerful breed…Dec 13, 20221Dec 13, 20221
Hacking LLM botsFor anyone who missed it, a Twitter account named @mkualquiera recently deployed what seems like a kind of adversarial attack in the wild…Sep 24, 2022Sep 24, 2022
Report from FAccT 2022The fifth iteration of FAccT (the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency) was held earlier this month (June 21–24) in…Jul 3, 2022Jul 3, 2022
Modular Domain AdaptationDespite their limitations, off-the-shelf models are still quite widely used by computational social science researchers for measuring…May 3, 2022May 3, 2022
AI 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…Feb 19, 2022Feb 19, 2022
AI Dermatology: Part 1Midway through last year Google announced a new foray into the medical technology space, sharing that it was developing an “AI-powered…Feb 5, 2022Feb 5, 2022
Vaccine Allocation at Stanford HospitalIn a video that was widely shared yesterday, a representative from the Stanford Medical Center Inventory Care Team spoke to residents…Dec 20, 2020Dec 20, 2020
The 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…Oct 3, 2020Oct 3, 2020
Representational PowerAlthough it isn’t normally thought of in these terms, taking a photograph involves recording a four-dimensional block of space-time and…Jul 21, 2019Jul 21, 2019
