Stephanie Kirmer, Author at Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com Publish AI, ML & data-science insights to a global community of data professionals. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 19:28:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://towardsdatascience.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/cropped-Favicon-32x32.png Stephanie Kirmer, Author at Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com 32 32 Software Engineering in the LLM Era https://towardsdatascience.com/software-engineering-in-the-llm-era/ Wed, 02 Jul 2025 19:27:46 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606485 On growing new software engineers, even when it’s inefficient

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]]> Evaluating LLMs for Inference, or Lessons from Teaching for Machine Learning https://towardsdatascience.com/evaluating-llms-for-inference-or-lessons-from-teaching-for-machine-learning/ Mon, 02 Jun 2025 20:04:28 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606190 It’s like grading papers, but your student is an LLM

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]]> Talking to Kids About AI https://towardsdatascience.com/talking-to-kids-about-ai/ Fri, 02 May 2025 05:52:09 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=605879 “This is your brain on an LLM”, and other things you shouldn’t say

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]]> AI in Social Research and Polling https://towardsdatascience.com/ai-in-social-research-and-polling/ Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:42:53 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=605381 What do we do when nobody answers the phone?

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]]> Generative AI and Civic Institutions https://towardsdatascience.com/generative-ai-and-civic-institutions/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 23:57:58 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=598653 Should human obsolescence be our goal?

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]]> The Cultural Backlash Against Generative AI https://towardsdatascience.com/the-cultural-backlash-against-generative-ai-30372d3b9080/ Sat, 01 Feb 2025 23:49:07 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/the-cultural-backlash-against-generative-ai-30372d3b9080/ What's making many people resent generative AI, and what impact does that have on the companies responsible?

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]]> The Cultural Impact of AI Generated Content: Part 2 https://towardsdatascience.com/the-cultural-impact-of-ai-generated-content-part-2-228bf685b8ff/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 17:24:24 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/the-cultural-impact-of-ai-generated-content-part-2-228bf685b8ff/ What can we do about the increasingly sophisticated AI generated content in our lives?

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]]> The Cultural Impact of AI Generated Content: Part 1 https://towardsdatascience.com/the-cultural-impact-of-ai-generated-content-part-1-6e6a8a51800f/ Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:36:15 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/the-cultural-impact-of-ai-generated-content-part-1-6e6a8a51800f/ What happens when AI generated media becomes ubiquitous in our lives? How does this relate to what we've experienced before, and how does...

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]]> Choosing and Implementing Hugging Face Models https://towardsdatascience.com/choosing-and-implementing-hugging-face-models-026d71426fbe/ Fri, 01 Nov 2024 14:02:09 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/choosing-and-implementing-hugging-face-models-026d71426fbe/ Pulling pre-trained models out of the box for your use case

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]]> A Critical Look at AI Image Generation https://towardsdatascience.com/a-critical-look-at-ai-image-generation-45001f410147/ Thu, 17 Oct 2024 07:36:08 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/a-critical-look-at-ai-image-generation-45001f410147/ What does image generative AI really tell us about our world?

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]]> Consent in Training AI https://towardsdatascience.com/consent-in-training-ai-75a377f32f65/ Wed, 02 Oct 2024 04:17:53 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/consent-in-training-ai-75a377f32f65/ Should you have control over whether information about you gets used in training generative AI?

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]]> Disability, Accessibility, and AI https://towardsdatascience.com/disability-accessibility-and-ai-0d5ab06ec140/ Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:37:49 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/disability-accessibility-and-ai-0d5ab06ec140/ A discussion of how AI can help and harm people with disabilities

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]]> Writing a Good Job Description for Data Science/Machine Learning https://towardsdatascience.com/writing-a-good-job-description-for-data-science-machine-learning-bd98f29c75cb/ Fri, 16 Aug 2024 15:25:50 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/writing-a-good-job-description-for-data-science-machine-learning-bd98f29c75cb/ Things to do and things to avoid in order to find the right candidates for your open position

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]]> Economics of Generative AI https://towardsdatascience.com/economics-of-generative-ai-75f550288097/ Thu, 01 Aug 2024 16:07:51 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/economics-of-generative-ai-75f550288097/ What's the business model for generative AI, given what we know today about the technology and the market?

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]]> PyTorch Tabular: A Review https://towardsdatascience.com/pytorch-tabular-a-review-b99abc663dbe/ Tue, 16 Jul 2024 06:36:51 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/pytorch-tabular-a-review-b99abc663dbe/ An overview for getting up and running quickly, while avoiding confusion

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]]> Data Privacy in AI Development: Data Localization https://towardsdatascience.com/data-privacy-in-ai-development-data-localization-50df725bfa1c/ Tue, 18 Jun 2024 02:58:27 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/data-privacy-in-ai-development-data-localization-50df725bfa1c/ Why should you care where your data lives?

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]]> The Meaning of Explainability for AI https://towardsdatascience.com/the-meaning-of-explainability-for-ai-d8ae809c97fa/ Tue, 04 Jun 2024 01:16:14 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/the-meaning-of-explainability-for-ai-d8ae809c97fa/ Do we still care about how our machine learning does what it does?

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]]> The Importance of Collaboration in Data https://towardsdatascience.com/the-importance-of-collaboration-in-data-d144a632ffdc/ Fri, 17 May 2024 05:52:13 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/the-importance-of-collaboration-in-data-d144a632ffdc/ Asking for feedback is a secretly powerful tool in data work. Let's talk about why, and how to do it well.

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]]> Environmental Implications of the AI Boom https://towardsdatascience.com/environmental-implications-of-the-ai-boom-279300a24184/ Thu, 02 May 2024 20:30:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/environmental-implications-of-the-ai-boom-279300a24184/ The digital world can't exist without the natural resources to run it. What are the costs of the tech we're using to build and run AI?

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]]> How Do We Know if AI Is Smoke and Mirrors? https://towardsdatascience.com/how-do-we-know-if-ai-is-smoke-and-mirrors-16ed5b6877aa/ Wed, 17 Apr 2024 20:51:05 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/how-do-we-know-if-ai-is-smoke-and-mirrors-16ed5b6877aa/ Musings on whether the "AI Revolution" is more like the printing press or crypto. (Spoiler: it's neither.)

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