Rumman Chowdhury

@ruchowdh

“researcher who made a tool” - NYT; IYKYK

San Francisco, CA
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Joined March 2016
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    26 Jun 2019

    By me and on tech’s quiet colonization of the social sciences: “The beautiful messiness of humanity cannot be quantified into data columns, programmed, scaled, and engineered.”

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  2. Retweeted
    Dec 16

    Jean-Luc Picard implies the existence of Jorts-Luc Picard

    Jean Valjean implies the existence of Jorts Valjorts send tweet
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  3. Retweeted
    19 hours ago

    1/10 We have today published the second edition of our AI Barometer, which is an analysis of the opportunities and challenges associated with AI and data use, alongside the findings of a major survey of British businesses. Find out more here:

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  4. 14 hours ago

    This is absolutely fucked up

    A panicking Amazon delivery driver was ordered to keep working through tornado warnings or she'd lose her job, text messages show, highlighting a lack of training in the online retailer's disjointed delivery network where it's not clear who is the boss.
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    16 hours ago

    is anybody studying i) the twitter bias we have in keeping updated with scientific literature (vs papers not appearing here); and ii) twitter amplification biases in science? (like did for politics: )

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  6. Retweeted
    Dec 10

    The humanities & social sciences are not optional for STEM; they are integral. The longer institutions of higher education say that, but do the exact opposite in terms of funding & status for non-STEM fields, the more we’re going to screw up and the more we’re all going to suffer

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  7. Retweeted
    Dec 16

    SSRC Fellows will imagine and create more just, equitable, and representative technological futures, advancing our collective understanding of tech & society and mobilizing action.  Submit your expression of interest by Jan 2:

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  8. 23 hours ago

    Read more:

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  9. 23 hours ago

    Using NLP to help journalists dig through FOIA requests is *exactly* how we should be using this technology. Congratulations and for being awarded $200k for Gumshoe!

    BIG NEWS: and I were awarded $200k from to collaborate w/ + bring our new AI-tool to under-resourced newsrooms across the US + support investigative reporting — huge thanks to + team, we're thrilled!
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  10. Retweeted
    Dec 16

    A lot of "crypto is inevitable" stuff on the timeline and I'll just... share this thing... that I wrote... that might be relevant idk.

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  11. 23 hours ago

    Me answering every policy request 😬

    "How does your company maintain alignment across multiple groups and divisions?" my dude we can't even align on using dashes or underscores for slack channel names
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  12. Retweeted
    Dec 16

    Jean Valjean implies the existence of Jorts Valjorts send tweet

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  13. Retweeted
    Dec 15

    NASA's Parker Solar Probe plunged deep into the Sun's corona & passed directly through streamers of solar plasma. The view out the window was...staggering.

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  14. Dec 15

    2019 back with a vengeance

    DEVELOPING: Feral hogs take over Southeast Texas neighborhood and cause all sorts of problems in a short period of time.
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    Dec 15

    Political Philosopher interested in new technologies? Come join me for up to 4 years on my ARC project on the political philosophy of data and AI. You'll be part of a team of philosophers working on machine intelligence and normative theory...

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    Dec 14

    Sci-hub's Alexandra Elbakyan responds to Nature journal. "Any law against knowledge is fundamentally unjust".

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  17. Retweeted
    Dec 15

    for those wanting to revisit / meet some of bell hooks' work, this free online library of Black womens' writing (compiled tenderly by ) is indispensable:

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  18. Retweeted
    Dec 14

    have you seen tweets about stolen NFTs, crypto scams, or plain old bad ideas and thought "geez, how is that whole web3 thing going?" check out my new project:

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    Dec 15

    Spotted in Hayden: the Good Luck Shark spreading good finals week vibes 🦈

    A sketch of a shark on a glass railing with the words "The Good Luck Shark wishes you well!" and a heart
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  20. Dec 15

    I’m here for the JCU (Jorts Cinematic Universe)

    someone please write a Pixar movie about Jorts and Jean and they meet Miette
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    Dec 15

    New Dutch government agreement stipulates the instatement of an algortihm watchdog. This watchdog is to uphold new (to be developed) regulation pertaining transparency, discrimination, and bias of algorithms. Promising first step towards more algorithmic accountability. (1/2)

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