Important views on data, computation & modeling in AI: Rich Sutton's "A Bitter Lesson" incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/Bitte… …, Rodney Brooks's "A Better Lesson" rodneybrooks.com/a-better-lesso… … and Max Welling's staff.fnwi.uva.nl/m.welling/wp-c… … who says "to solve AGI then we will need model based RL."

We don’t need a scientific break through to address the number one killer of children and young adults. We just the need the will to change how we design and use our streets. forbes.com/sites/brucelee…

High turnout at the Seattle Department of Transportation bike master plan meeting last night

First attempt at removing cars off the roads with neural nets. Will have to dream harder.

The pre-preprint

(1/2) Last year, @BenBoecking and I partnered with CONNECTAS and El País Cali 📰 for a project about the killings of social leaders in Colombia. In this paper we describe the results of the data analysis and how this led the journalistic investigation: arxiv.org/pdf/1906.08206…

Noise pollution map across the entire country, from U.S. Department of Transportation. Flight routes are huge.

This is mind-bending: The introduction of EZ-Pass in New Jersey and Pennsylvania reduced the incidence of premature birth by as much as 9.1% for mothers who lived within 2 kilometers of toll plazas bloom.bg/2z8xVi5 via bopinion

My friend Alex, who is both a superb bird and human

I am on the academic job market! My work is on human-centered machine learning (ML), and focuses on issues of fairness, accountability and sustainability when using ML for decision support. Please reach out if you think we may be a good fit!

I forgot to sign my Washington mail-in-ballot. King County called me (three times), emailed me (for a whole week) and sent me a letter to fix it. They REALLY want you to vote. King County, Washington

Corey is a personal hero. Sad to see him leave the race, but know he'll continue to do great things in NY.

Presenting world-scale inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) in Google Maps. Learn how RHIP, a new IRL algorithm, along with advances in graph compression & parallelization led to relative improvement in the quality of suggested routes in Google Maps. → goo.gle/3EBAc75

Last week wearing the Google Research t-shirt