All things are systems - the Idlewild Acres case
A qualitative case study of how sociotechnical system design results in vulnerable populations
Roderick.Dev
Tom Roderick, writing on applied machine learning, causal inference, and AI governance.
Latest posts
Abbott's Systems of Professions
Reasoning on how AI will impact labor markets
Domain AI
Why Applications of AI are a fruitful field
Where the AI market will be won
Thought on the market upheavals from AI.
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When Vulnerability Drives Action: Designing Forward-Looking Frameworks for Disaster Preparedness.
Making Hackathons succeed
Some principles for making good hackathons.
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Integrating Mental Health and Juvenile Justice Outcomes: A Case Study of Model-Agnostic Interpretable Machine Learning.
AI Systems -- then and now
AI systems cost to build have dropped substantially
AI is a tool
Convergence can be scary, and yet the parts are still useful.
Make it.
Building in the age of AI.
Thoughts and impressions on vibe coding
Notes on testing Vibe Coding after several months.
Small LLM tricks
Short notes on useful things LLMs can do in practice -- a running list.
Thoughts on turning 40
Words to live by and goals to work toward, on the occasion of turning 40.
LLMs in the workflow: what the heck to call this?
A straw poll on naming the integration of generative models into products and services.
The limiting factor for AI
The Megaface incident as a case study in AI's data economics problem.
Niche datasets
Sources for discovering datasets that don't show up in standard searches.
Joining Mastodon
Notes on moving from Twitter to Mastodon following the Musk acquisition.
Topology as a data science tool
Why UMAP deserves a place in your segmentation toolkit, and where TDA goes next.
Introducing Roderick.Dev
An introduction to Tom Roderick -- economist, data scientist, and the mind behind Roderick.Dev.