Kristian Lum

@KLdivergence
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Responsible ML Researcher | Statistician at ♥️ | ACM FAccT Conference OG | Past UPenn CS Faculty & @hrdag

Judith Love Cohen was the engineer who made Apollo's Abort Guidance System, which was crucial to saving the ill-fated Apollo 13. She finished it while in labor, then (the same day) delivered her younger son -- the actor Jack Black.

This is one of those utterly remarkable #space stories that I stumble over once in a while and it blows my mind afresh every single time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Love_Cohen

Judith Love Cohen - Wikipedia

Next Tuesday 2/28, enjoy a webinar on leadership in statistics and data science, with HRDAG's @pball and colleague @KLdivergence. It's free, and registration is required! https://www.niss.org/events/copss-niss-leadership-webinar-series-social-justice-and-community-leadership
COPSS-NISS Leadership Webinar Series: Social Justice and Community Leadership

Join us for our another insightful webinar on the topic of leadership in the field of statistics and data science.  The focus of this webinar is on leadership to advance social justice and human rights in communities near and far. Hear from three leading statisticians doing high-impact work to advocate for populations experiencing discrimination and to improve the health of underserved communities.

National Institute of Statistical Sciences

It’s funny how recognizing AI art nowadays is just the same old rules as recognizing the fae in old tales.

“Count the fingers, count the knuckles, count the teeth, check the shadows…”

… and under NO circumstances should you make deals with their kind.

Jacinda Ardern resigns as prime minister of New Zealand

Labour leader to stand down no later than 7 February, saying she ‘no longer had enough in the tank’ to do the job

The Guardian
Back to the academic grind and already received an email with comments on an old paper of mine from someone who did not actually read the whole paper. 🫠
I may not be at twitter anymore but they are going to have to pry the bird puns out of my cold, dead talons.
First day at the new job vibe
Happy separation date to those that celebrate! 🫡 let the shit talking about twitter commence at midnight!
lol “how are things at twitter?” I don’t even know where to start, bud, but thanks for the automated new years email!

@emilymbender There is a demand for low-background steel, steel produced before the nuclear tests mid century, for use in Geiger counters. They produce it from scavenging ships sunk during world war one, as it's the only way they can be sure there is no radiation.

The same is going to happen for internet data, only archives pre-2022 will be usable for sociology research and the like as the rest will be contaminated by AI nonsense. Absolute travesty.