Are you interested in building and maintaining computational systems that benefit people and the planet?
Please join us at our weekly "Appropriate Computing" reading and discussion group on Thursdays 2-3 in SBS 405, and our technical working group on Fridays in SBS 405. See topic calendar below.
10/8/26: Approaches to training (pretraining, fine tuning, reinforcement learning, etc)
10/2/26: Confounders and covariates in ventilator study with TMLE
10/1/26: Cybernetics and telos
9/24/26: Outreach ideas
9/18/26: Meeting with Bob Young, MD (pulmonology)
8/28/26: Further exploration of data
8/20/26: Analaysis of data, refinement of predictors
8/12/26: Descriptive analysis of data
8/6/26: Further refinement of question
7/30/26: Exploration of ventilation question
7/9/26: Choosing a topic, getting access to data
7/2/26: Develop statistical analysis plan (SAP)
6/26/26: Intro to application of TMLE to medical records
Many weeks of work and discussion
2/27/26: Medical Applications of AI (slides)
2/20/26: Curriculum draft: Bauhaus wheel, Ulm School of Design
2/13/26: Planning for upcoming events
2/6/26: Planning for upcoming events
1/30/26: Planning for upcoming events
1/23/26: Planning for upcoming events
1/16/26: Professional Development Day Talk (slides)
12/19/25: General Discussion
12/12/25: Reading list for next term, brainstorming list of topics for professional day presentation.
12/5/25: Demystifying statistical learning based on efficient influence functions (paper)
11/28/25: No meeting
11/21/25: No meeting
11/14/25: Tutorial in Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation (paper)
11/7/25: Medical focus (webinar)
10/31/25: Halloween (no meeting)
10/24/25: Inappropriate Computing (slides)
10/17/25: What is Neuromorphic Computing?
10/10/25: AI Policy and Public Schools: Beyond Fear & Hype
10/3/25: AI in medicine (slides)
9/26/25: AI in education
9/19/25: No meeting
9/12/25: What is appropriate computing?
9/5/25: AI development trajectories
8/19/25: Planning meeting
7/14/25: Appropriate Computing Certificate design
7/7/25: Applications of AI in medicine, healthcare, agriculture, and environmental stewardship
6/30/25: Finetuning
6/9/25: Voice models
6/2/25: Multimodal models
5/26/25: Memorial Day
5/19/25: Vision
5/12/25: Diffusion
5/05/25: Code Generation
4/28/25: Agents
4/21/25: Retrieval Augmented Generation
4/14/25: Prompting, ICL & Chain of Thought
4/7/25: Benchmarks
3/31/25: Cesar Chavez Day
3/24/25: Slice of AI and Pie talk by Alana Chin
3/17/25: Spring Break
3/10/25: Fritz Schumacher Documentary and Appropedia
3/3/25: Frontier LLMS
DeepSeek R1: https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1/blob/main/DeepSeek_R1.pdf
BERT: https://huggingface.co/blog/modernbert, https://www.answer.ai/posts/colbert-pooling.html
2/24/25: First two chapters of Small is Beautiful, https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-gpt2/
2/17/25: Introduction and plan for remainder of term