Folks believe LLMs will just keep getting better forever, as if transformer-based models have no limits. Wait until they’re profitable… they’re gonna suck. Facebook, Google, YouTube, celebrated when they were losing money. Now the robber barons of a new gilded age. #AcademicSky #MLSky #AIEthics

Not every day you get a walkthrough of AdaBoost, an algorithm taught in nearly every intro ML class, from the professor who developed it. Seeing the mix of rigor and intuition behind something that’s now standard curriculum was pretty priceless. #MLSky #HDSI #AcademicSky

I started my PhD at UCSD, at Triton Underground Scholars orientation, I saw a friend in a dark period of my life, when Pablo Asencio and I were in county jail. Now we’re building pathways into tech for the justice-impacted. #JusticeTech #DataScience #Reentry #AcademicSky #HDSI #UCSD

So proud to be a Hope Scholar…

My interview with Dr. Susan Monarez, former CDC Director, who was fired for doing her job, standing up for public health and science. Learn about her resilience and optimism. erictopol.substack.com/p/dr-susan-m...

Panels will feature students from across San Diego with spaces for wellness and reflection. It’s showing that higher education is community lifting each other up. Zoom: bit.ly/Education_for_Empowerment RSVP: tinyurl.com/eduforempfa25 #UndergroundScholars #RisingScholars #ProjectRebound #UCSD #HDS

My long-term goal is to build systems that prioritize health and healing, for justice-impacted communities, foster youth, and survivors 🧠 ML: Online Learning, GLMs, RL, Bayesian Models 📊 DS: Inference & Experimental Design, Scalable, GIS #JusticeEvolved #DigitalHealth #TechForGood #Wearables

“Our lived experience uniquely positions us to identify blind spots in research and policy often overlooked by traditional experts.” 🔗 www.justice-evolved.com #JusticeEvolved #UndergroundScholars #AcademicSky

The future of data science isn’t just profit, its healing I’m a PhD student at UCSD using online learning and wearable data to build real-time tools for trauma, addiction, and PTSD. For the formerly incarcerated, foster youth, and survivors. Let’s build tech that makes people whole. #AI4Healing

“Too often, justice-impacted scholars are invisible. We’re building a platform where our expertise is recognized, preserved, and made accessible.” The submitted to #PTU2025 with justice-evolved folks from UCB + UCI. 🔗 www.justice-evolved.com #JusticeEvolved #UndergroundScholars

Just submitted a proposal to the 2025 Prison to University Conference. “We’re not just reclaiming space, we’re building an enduring academic community where justice-evolved scholars are valued, visible, and shaping the future.” 🔗 www.justice-evolved.com #UndergroundScholars #PTU2025

The CDC has eviscerated divisions that oversee a database on accidental deaths and injuries and the team that maintains a tool for tracking sexually transmitted diseases. The EPA will stop requiring that industry measures greenhouse gas emissions.

#HDSI #UCSD #UndergroundScholars