Tag: ai
TIL: Turning a conference talk into an annotated presentation October 8th, 2024
I really like trying to publish written versions of conference talks – videos are great, but not everyone has the time or desire to watch. But in the past I’ve often not been able to make them happen – it’s just felt like a lot of work transcribing an entire talk, producing a writeup, etc. But modern AI tools have changed this, it’s now significantly easier. So here are some notes on my tools and workflow that I used to produce the writeup of my DjangoCon US 2024 talk.…
Ethical Applications of AI to Public Sector Problems October 1st, 2024
There have been massive developments in AI in the last decade, and they’re changing what’s possible with software. There’s also been a huge amount of misunderstanding, hype, and outright bullshit. I believe that the advances in AI are real, will continue, and have promising applications in the public sector. But I also believe that there are clear “right” and “wrong” ways to apply AI to public sector problems.
🔗 Making Large Language Models work for you August 27th, 2023
Maybe the best intro to LLMs I’ve seen yet.
🔗 Thoughts on my first machine learning project November 11th, 2022
Fantastic post about what building an ML system feels like.
Writing With Copilot October 14th, 2022
On using Copilot as a writing assistant, and my complex feelings about the ethics of doing so.
AI is catching up to the hype December 28th, 2020
One of the major trends I’ve been thinking about a lot this year is that the reality of AI has starting catching up to the hype. This thought has been percolating in my brain for a while, and finally bubbled out into a comment on MetaFilter. I’m publishing it here, as well.