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Resisting the crawl
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The past months many people have seen many legislative attacks on our identities (by the UK Supreme Court, Donald Trump’s executive orders, Hungary’s constitutional amendment), freedom of speech, and freedom to gather and demonstrate (arrest Mahmoud Khalil, Harvard funding freeze for failing to “limit activism on campus”). Just to grab a few examples of the top of my mind, I could not possibly be exhaustive of all the explicit violence spurred and carried out. This terrifyingly comprehensive and world spanning attack on gender, immigrants, journalists, organisers, and activists by neo-liberal, corpo-bureaucratic institutions, politicians and governments may very well be only the intro to a period of catastrophe. I doubt if you have found this you hadn’t experienced the chocking, static panic of hyper normalisation. The feeling of political and societal disassociation from reality as a constant stream of news and live social-media feed on tragedies, cruelty, hate and lately unabashed state violence unfolds without much objection, or response from power and leaders. Maybe complicit silence and shuffling. Crawling up from between your shoulder blades to encircle your throat, the rage of disability to witness atrocity without agency.
What is in the Box?
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AI technology exists and is widely available. Anyone can access the repositories, download the weights, read the papers of Arxiv. There is no putting it back in the box, we will have to live in a world with AI tools. So, the question becomes how can we shape these tools. This piece will detail some of the current methods and philosophies of guiding these mathematical heaps towards humane uses.
Another AI is possible?
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2022 November 30th OpenAI released ChatGPT and with this launching machine learning/AI into the popular consciousness. Since then machine learning permeated more and more of people’s lives. Breaking out from the niches of industry to a truly ridiculous array of applications as corporates from big-tech to bakeries rushed to ride the hype. More importantly people are using AI in all sorts of ways. Students use it to write their assignments, employees use it to answer emails, create reports, and write queries. These uses motivate the all too pressing questions of safety, biases of models, and what we consider ethical as machine learning models present mirrors to our lives, companies, and societies. This article considers a more fundamental question: How are we building it? And more importantly: How else can we build it?
Fixing bikes and Explaining AI; The Unexpected Parallels
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Bike Kitchens, at their core, are about empowerment. They teach people to understand their bikes, work on them, and regain confidence in their ability to move through the world. As I spent more time fixing bikes and teaching others, I began to notice surprising parallels with my academic work in explainable AI (XAI).
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portfolio
Food and Society in London
My Bachelor’s thesis delving into food in London 
Researching Digital Media and Society
Created some python notebooks for a course on digital media 
IMDb artist network
Little R project to showcase the value of network data 
Coalitional Explanations
Masters’s thesis work expanding SHAP 
Two ways for sign language detection
Little vision project 
resources
Conviviality
I believe with conviviality it is actually useful to start from the roots. In English the word means “the enjoyment of festive society, festivity” is a word loaned indefinitely without payment from the French. Convivialite in French coined by Anthelme Brillat-Savarin gastrophilosopher in his 1825 book Physiologie du gout to describe the atmosphere at the table when different people come together over a meal, and spend time in excited conversation. An alternate root may be the Spanish la convivencia used by Americo Castro in 1948 to mean the peaceful coexistence between different religious groups in Spain between the eighth and fifteenth centuries.
Writing
For writing I have found a number of tools that help me create more in a sensible way. The main backbone of my process is Logseq a great way to organise and structure your notes and thinking. It is open-source using markdown files making your notes portable across various systems, you can just take them anywhere. And the community offers a dazzling array of plugins, from local LLMs, text-to-speech, Git version controll, to drawing utilities. If you like organising your thoughts and data you will love Obsidian. Oh and every page on this site is written on it.