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The Meaning of Explainability for AI

Do we still care about how our machine learning does what it does?

8 min read4 days ago

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The Importance of Collaboration in Data

Asking for feedback is a secretly powerful tool in data work. Let’s talk about why, and how to do it well.

6 min readMay 17, 2024

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The Importance of Collaboration in Data

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Environmental Implications of the AI Boom

The digital world can’t exist without the natural resources to run it. What are the costs of the tech we’re using to build and run AI?

8 min readMay 2, 2024

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How Do We Know if AI Is Smoke and Mirrors?

Musings on whether the “AI Revolution” is more like the printing press or crypto. (Spoiler: it’s neither.)

10 min readApr 17, 2024

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The Coming Copyright Reckoning for Generative AI

Courts are preparing to decide whether generative AI violates copyright-let’s talk about what that really means

14 min readApr 1, 2024

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Uncovering the EU AI Act

The EU has moved to regulate machine learning. What does this new law mean for data scientists?

9 min readMar 14, 2024

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Seeing Our Reflection in LLMs

When LLMs give us outputs that reveal flaws in human society, can we choose to listen to what they tell us?

7 min readMar 2, 2024

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Art and AI

Thinking about the intersection of people and technology in the creative process in the AI era

7 min readFeb 17, 2024

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Art and AI

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Stephanie Kirmer
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Using Poetry and Docker to Package Your Model for AWS Lambda

An accessible tutorial for one way to put a model into production, with focus on hiccups you might encounter along the way

10 min readJan 29, 2024

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Closing the Gap Between Machine Learning and Business

What would you say it is you do here?

6 min readJan 13, 2024

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Stephanie Kirmer

Stephanie Kirmer

I'm a data scientist who used to be a sociologist, and I write about the intersection of ML/DS and society. Subscribe https://medium.com/subscribe/@s.kirmer

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