Thomas Roderick, PhD — writing on applied machine learning, causal inference, and AI governance.https://www.roderick.dev/https://www.roderick.dev/writing/2026-04-12-winning-ai/https://www.roderick.dev/writing/2026-04-12-winning-ai/Thought on the market upheavals from AI.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.roderick.dev/writing/2026-04-08-isre-paper-alert/https://www.roderick.dev/writing/2026-04-08-isre-paper-alert/When Vulnerability Drives Action: Designing Forward-Looking Frameworks for Disaster Preparedness.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.roderick.dev/writing/2026-03-31-hackathons/https://www.roderick.dev/writing/2026-03-31-hackathons/Some principles for making good hackathons.Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.roderick.dev/writing/2026-03-26-ijoc-paper-alert/https://www.roderick.dev/writing/2026-03-26-ijoc-paper-alert/Integrating Mental Health and Juvenile Justice Outcomes: A Case Study of Model-Agnostic Interpretable Machine Learning.Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.roderick.dev/writing/2026-03-20-building-ai-systems/https://www.roderick.dev/writing/2026-03-20-building-ai-systems/AI systems cost to build have dropped substantiallyFri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.roderick.dev/writing/2026-03-05-ai-is-a-tool/https://www.roderick.dev/writing/2026-03-05-ai-is-a-tool/Convergence can be scary, and yet the parts are still useful.Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.roderick.dev/writing/2025-10-15-make-it/https://www.roderick.dev/writing/2025-10-15-make-it/Building in the age of AI.Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.roderick.dev/writing/2025-05-15-vibe-coding-in-the-wild/https://www.roderick.dev/writing/2025-05-15-vibe-coding-in-the-wild/Notes on testing Vibe Coding after several months.Thu, 15 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.roderick.dev/writing/2025-01-19-small_llm_finding/https://www.roderick.dev/writing/2025-01-19-small_llm_finding/Short notes on useful things LLMs can do in practice -- a running list.Sun, 19 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.roderick.dev/writing/2023-07-27-thoughts_on_turning_40/https://www.roderick.dev/writing/2023-07-27-thoughts_on_turning_40/Words to live by and goals to work toward, on the occasion of turning 40.Thu, 27 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.roderick.dev/writing/2023-05-07-what_to_call_this/https://www.roderick.dev/writing/2023-05-07-what_to_call_this/A straw poll on naming the integration of generative models into products and services.Sun, 07 May 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.roderick.dev/writing/2023-01-02-limiting_factor/https://www.roderick.dev/writing/2023-01-02-limiting_factor/The Megaface incident as a case study in AI's data economics problem.Mon, 02 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.roderick.dev/writing/2022-11-18-niche_datasets/https://www.roderick.dev/writing/2022-11-18-niche_datasets/Sources for discovering datasets that don't show up in standard searches.Fri, 18 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.roderick.dev/writing/2022-11-06-mastodon_migration/https://www.roderick.dev/writing/2022-11-06-mastodon_migration/Notes on moving from Twitter to Mastodon following the Musk acquisition.Sun, 06 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.roderick.dev/writing/2022-06-14-topological_data_analysis/https://www.roderick.dev/writing/2022-06-14-topological_data_analysis/Why UMAP deserves a place in your segmentation toolkit, and where TDA goes next.Tue, 14 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.roderick.dev/writing/2020-09-04-about_me/https://www.roderick.dev/writing/2020-09-04-about_me/An introduction to Tom Roderick -- economist, data scientist, and the mind behind Roderick.Dev.Fri, 04 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT