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Will gene sequencing finally prove its worth?

May 13, 2025

The Missing Medical Data Holding Back AI

Jan 24, 2025

What AI can tell us about microscope slides

Jan 16, 2025

AI and Immunology

Nov 20, 2024

5 Devious Tricks Pathogens Use Against Us

Nov 12, 2024

In defense of screen time

Oct 29, 2024

Gaps and Risks of AI in the Life Sciences

Sep 10, 2024

Your Immune System is Not a Muscle

Aug 13, 2024

AI’s Quest to Predict T Cell Binding– The Holy Grail of Immunology

Aug 1, 2024

The Most Common and Useful Neural Nets

Jul 24, 2024

Decoding T cells with AI

Jul 9, 2024

The microbiomes of wildfires, nanoplastics, and roller derby

May 7, 2024

Surprises of the Microbiome

Apr 25, 2024

Using AI to Discover New Antibiotics

Apr 3, 2024

“AI will cure cancer” misunderstands both AI and medicine

Feb 20, 2024

How Immune Cells Communicate

Feb 6, 2024

Applying AI to Immune Cell Networks

Jan 23, 2024

4 Things I Learned About Bugs

Jan 9, 2024

AI and Power: The Ethical Challenges of Automation, Centralization, and Scale

May 16, 2023

Viruses: The Silent Triggers of Autoimmune and Neurodegenerative Diseases

Mar 22, 2023

Viruses are weirder, worse, & more preventable than you realise

Mar 7, 2023

How to Remember Anything

Feb 21, 2023

I was an AI researcher. Now, I am an immunology student.

Feb 7, 2023

My family’s unlikely homeschooling journey

Sep 6, 2022

Qualitative humanities research is crucial to AI

Jun 1, 2022

AI Harms are Societal, Not Just Individual

May 17, 2022

There’s no such thing as not a math person

Mar 15, 2022

Avoiding Data Disasters

Nov 4, 2021

Medicine is Political

Oct 12, 2021

11 Short Videos About AI Ethics

Aug 16, 2021

Essential Work-From-Home Advice: Cheap and Easy Ergonomic Setups

Aug 6, 2020

4 Principles for Responsible Government Use of Technology

Jan 21, 2020

The problem with metrics is a big problem for AI

Sep 24, 2019

8 Things You Need to Know about Surveillance

Aug 7, 2019

Advice for Better Blog Posts

May 13, 2019

Dairy farming, solar panels, and diagnosing Parkinson’s disease: what can you do with deep learning?

Feb 21, 2019

Tech’s Long Hours Are Discriminatory and Counterproductive

Feb 19, 2019

Five Things That Scare Me About AI

Jan 29, 2019

Things everyone should know about chronic illness & disability

Jan 21, 2019

What Harvard Business Review Gets Wrong About Algorithms and Bias

Aug 7, 2018

Google’s AutoML: Cutting Through the Hype

Jul 23, 2018

An Opinionated Introduction to AutoML and Neural Architecture Search

Jul 16, 2018

What do machine learning practitioners actually do?

Jul 12, 2018

An Introduction to Deep Learning for Tabular Data

Apr 29, 2018

Making Peace with Personal Branding

Dec 18, 2017

What you need to do deep learning

Nov 16, 2017

How (and why) to create a good validation set

Nov 13, 2017

Why you (yes, you) should blog

Jul 28, 2017

How to Make Tech Interviews a Little Less Awful

Mar 5, 2017

How should you structure your Data Science and Engineering teams?

Dec 8, 2016

Please don’t say ‘It used to be called big data and now it’s called deep learning’

Nov 17, 2016

Providing a Good Education in Deep Learning

Oct 8, 2016

The Real Reason Women Quit Tech (and How to Address It)

Oct 4, 2016

Diversity Washing Makes Things Worse

Dec 7, 2015

If you think women in tech is just a pipeline problem, you haven’t been paying attention

Jul 27, 2015
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