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Managing Language Model Risks; Dogs as Virtual Assistants

A Review of the DeepMind “Risks of Language Models” Publication — The United States is going through a phase of banning books in school libraries. Traditionally, we have been more willing to trust school librarians to determine what children should be able read with fewer free speech concerns than we have librarians in public libraries. We trust librarians to be trained…

Language Model

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Managing Language Model Risks; Dogs as Virtual Assistants
Managing Language Model Risks; Dogs as Virtual Assistants
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Newbie Adventures in COVID Data

The advice given to many who are interested in exploring or mastering data science is to find some data that intrigues you and see what you can learn. When COVID-19 hit Massachusetts pretty hard and the state began posting data for download, it seemed a good place to start. …

Covid-19

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Newbie Adventures in COVID Data
Newbie Adventures in COVID Data
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Newbie Adventures in COVID Data- leveraging APIs for aggregated data and Plotly for Charts

Standardized data from COVID ACT NOW APIs allows for state by state comparison of daily positivity rates — In the first episode of our adventure in COVID data, we began to explore using Python basics (functions similar to Excel) to look at COVID-19 data and trends specifically for the state of Massachusetts. …

Covid-19

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Newbie Adventures in COVID Data- leveraging APIs for aggregated data and Plotly for Charts
Newbie Adventures in COVID Data- leveraging APIs for aggregated data and Plotly for Charts
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Why your machine learning model may be melting icebergs.

Like many of you in Towards Data Science, I am self-taught in machine learning and can remember the day I first left my laptop in model training, fan whirring away, to return hours later and find it still buzzing along. “Hmm”, I thought, “maybe I need a GPU”. Fellow DIY…

Artificial Intelligence

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Why your machine learning model may be melting icebergs.
Why your machine learning model may be melting icebergs.
Artificial Intelligence

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Five Hypotheses as to why Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning projects fail

There are numerous articles and published papers around why AI/Machine Learning/Natural Language Processing projects never make it to “production” or fail to deliver on the value proposed (Gartner predicts that through 2022, 85 percent of AI projects will deliver erroneous outcomes due to bias in data, algorithms or the teams…

Data Science

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Five Hypotheses as to why Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning projects fail
Five Hypotheses as to why Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning projects fail
Data Science

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Feb 16, 2022

If the Economy was a game of Jenga: Childcare as the first brick

While Americans agree that childcare is a necessity, they diverge when it comes to the associated cultural values The COVID pandemic exposed that U.S. public schools function as essential government-funded daycare centers. As Omicron peaked in each state in the winter of 2022, student-minding services were often provided by school…

Childcare

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If the Economy was a game of Jenga: Childcare as the first brick
If the Economy was a game of Jenga: Childcare as the first brick
Childcare

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Jan 22, 2022

A new COVID variant in 2022: a hypothetical exploration based on history and data

Hypothetically, let’s say a new COVID variant is identified this Spring which results in testiculate atrophy. Let’s call it “Sigma”. “Sigma” is partially resistant to the current vaccines, replicates in the nose and throat like Omicron, and can spread to surrounding lymph nodes. “Sigma”, while mild in symptoms, is more…

Covid-19

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A new COVID variant in 2022: a hypothetical exploration based on history and data
A new COVID variant in 2022: a hypothetical exploration based on history and data
Covid-19

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Dec 22, 2021

As the Supreme Court ponders the Mississippi state law on abortion, let’s look at some data.

Mississippi is one of the worst places to be born in the United States. Image of Postcard (Open Commons) First the good news: although the maternal mortality rate increased significantly in the U.S. between 2018 and 2019 (20.1 deaths per 100,000 live births for 2019 versus 17.4 …

Data

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As the Supreme Court ponders the Mississippi state law on abortion, let’s look at some data.
As the Supreme Court ponders the Mississippi state law on abortion, let’s look at some data.
Data

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Apr 14, 2021

A Quick Review of the Stamford AI in Healthcare Courses (AI in Healthcare Specialization) Capstone Project.

For some, the capstone standalone may be equally as valuable as the course. In my prior post about the Stamford AI in Healthcare Course, I covered the course components, but held off on the actual Capstone Project. …

Healthcare

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A Quick Review of the Stamford AI in Healthcare Courses (AI in Healthcare Specialization) Capstone…
A Quick Review of the Stamford AI in Healthcare Courses (AI in Healthcare Specialization) Capstone…
Healthcare

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Jan 23, 2021

“Mask-shamers” everywhere, please add this to your 100 day pledge

Put your money where your mouth is and carry a spare. Almost everyone by now has likely run into a “mask-shamer”: The woman who when she sees someone who is not wearing a mask walking 20 yards away in an open field in the countryside feels the need to walk…

Masks

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“Mask-shamers” everywhere add this to your 100 day pledge
“Mask-shamers” everywhere add this to your 100 day pledge
Masks

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Love building product with AI smarts and great UX, playing soccer and learning data science

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