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Clock

https://mathbabe.org/2024/08/12/clock/

Published: August 12, 2024 17:39

Guest post by Sander O’Neil https://sanderoneilclock.tiiny.site/ This is a follow up to this post https://mathbabe.org/2015/03/12/earths-aphelion-and-perihelion/ from 2015 also try other experiments on my website:…

Guest post: Who gets to live in techno-utopia? Disability rights, eugenics, and effective altruism

https://mathbabe.org/2024/04/08/guest-post-who-gets-to-live-in-techno-utopia-disability-rights-eugenics-and-effective-altruism/

Published: April 8, 2024 13:51

This is a guest post by Victor Zhenyi Wang. Victor worked as a data scientist in global health and development at IDinsight India. He is currently a Masters student at the Blum Center for Developing Economies at UC Berkeley. He is interested in technology…

An interview with someone who left Effective Altruism

https://mathbabe.org/2024/03/16/an-interview-with-someone-who-left-effective-altruism/

Published: March 16, 2024 18:35

C: Tell me a little bit about your college experience. How did you get interested in this work originally?  E: Good question. It kind of started for me in high school actually. I took my first philosophy class when I was 16 or 17, and I loved it. But one…

Google’s mistake with Gemini

https://mathbabe.org/2024/03/12/googles-mistake-with-gemini/

Published: March 12, 2024 13:47

You have probably heard that Google had to suspend it’s Gemini image feature after showing people black Nazis and female popes: Well I have a simple explanation for what happened here. Namely, the folks at Google wanted to avoid an embarrassment that…

The AI Fairness Hype is Real

https://mathbabe.org/2024/03/09/the-ai-fairness-hype-is-real/

Published: March 9, 2024 15:01

Who knew that CBS works for Silicon Valley? And yet, when I watched their show Eye on America this morning, that’s what I discovered: an entire hour devoted to hyping the likes of Meta and Boston Scientific. Titled Emerging AI and robotics tech, the hour…

Tampon Tax update

https://mathbabe.org/2024/02/22/tampon-tax-update/

Published: February 22, 2024 15:34

Do you guys remember when I was a plaintiff in a New York State lawsuit against the tampon tax? My blog was entitled, Holy shit I look amazing holding tampons After that I even designed and knitted a hat to go along with the theme: Period Equity Tampon…

Abortion rights and paternity tests

https://mathbabe.org/2024/02/20/abortion-rights-and-paternity-tests/

Published: February 20, 2024 13:41

This morning my thought is pretty simple: abortion is seen as a woman’s issue, which of course it historically has been, but with the advent of paternity tests, it could easily and quickly become a man’s issue. Back before abortion was legal, and…

Black box auditing is fine

https://mathbabe.org/2024/02/15/black-box-auditing-is-fine/

Published: February 15, 2024 13:39

Last week I read this paper entitled “Black-Box Access is Insufficient for Rigorous AI Audits” with some excitement, since I do black box algorithmic auditing at my company and I was looking forward to knowing what more I could do with even more access.…

Why people hate Wegovy

https://mathbabe.org/2024/02/04/why-people-hate-wegovy/

Published: February 4, 2024 15:48

I’ve been on Wegovy now for seven months. I’ve lost a ton of weight – about 60 pounds – and my risk of getting diabetes has gone way *way* down. I think it’s a total fucking miracle. But there are people on the left and the right that hate what’s…

Fat shaming food columnist in WaPo

https://mathbabe.org/2023/01/24/fat-shaming-food-columnist-in-wapo/

Published: January 24, 2023 15:50

It’s kind of amazing but here we are: a food columnist writes about how diets are shams, how they statistically don’t work, and they play on people’s desires to live a different life – all good things to point out – and yet – yet!! – the piece ends with…