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Peter Bull @peter.drivendata.org · 16/06/2026

Launching today: The K-12 AI Infrastructure Platform! platform.k12-ai-infrastructure.org Making AI better for students and educators. Learn more about the launch and our plans on the blog post here: drivendata.co/blog/k12-ai-...

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Peter Bull @peter.drivendata.org · 01/04/2026

Excited to be speaking at Good Tech Summit in DC April 7 www.goodtechtogether.org/summit We’ll share a program focused on K-12 education and talk about investing in the foundations of AI: data, models, and benchmarks. We'll explore how these shape AI development in a field. Join us!

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Peter Bull @peter.drivendata.org · 04/02/2026

🎉 Excited to launch this challenge! 🎉 Over a year of data collection, curation, and annotation that we undertook to produce a first-of-its-kind dataset. Help us build speech models that understand 2-5 year olds. $120k in prizes and huge impact! kidsasr.drivendata.org

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Peter Bull @peter.drivendata.org · 13/10/2025

🚀 New release: cloudpathlib v0.23.0 🥧 Now with Python 3.14 (π) support! 📁 New copy & move methods mean you can reduce usage of shutil 🎉 Check out the full release and docs here: 👉 cloudpathlib.drivendata.org/stable/

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Peter Bull @peter.drivendata.org · 10/10/2025

Super interesting work on new proposed columnar data file format called F3 with embedded wasm binary to decode the data 🤯 (which obviates the need for 3rd party library support). Favorable comparisons on compression, throughput and random reads to existing formats. db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2025/...

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Peter Bull @peter.drivendata.org · 08/10/2025

Very cool to see Wikimedia embracing LLM tools and launching a hybrid similarity search API and open source embeddings for Wikipedia! Also supports Q&A style queries. www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidat...

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Peter Bull @peter.drivendata.org · 06/10/2025

Interesting to see empirical research coming out for LLMs as education aids. In this study, active use of LLMs helped CS students debug compiler errors. Removing LLM access demonstrated no lasting learning benefit from having had access to it... learninganalytics.upenn.edu/ryanbaker/IC...

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Peter Bull @peter.drivendata.org · 22/09/2025

We just shipped two major features for cloudpathlib ✨📦 ✨ ! First, http support—treat an URL like any other path (open, read_text, join). Second, compatibility with open and os Python built-ins for seamless transition of legacy code and third-party library support. cloudpathlib.drivendata.org

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Peter Bull @peter.drivendata.org · 13/08/2025

Thought I would spot check a application someone was posting about 100% vibecoding. Can you spot the issue? Kudos to the LLM, this is verbatim from the fastapi docs. Sometimes verbatim from the docs is not what you want for your application though....

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Peter Bull @peter.drivendata.org · 08/08/2025

Enthusiastic to build on this generation of earth observation foundation embeddings like DeepMind's AlphaEarth (and more)! We already see some promising crop type (cereals vs. orchards) results and are exploring other use cases in climate resilience. deepmind.google/discover/blo...

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Peter Bull @peter.drivendata.org · 25/07/2025

✨ 📦 ✨ Just released new Cookiecutter Data Science version with support for pixi and poetry as environment managers! Some of our top requested features ever. Upgrade and check it out now. cookiecutter-data-science.drivendata.org

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Peter Bull @peter.drivendata.org · 18/07/2025

Now getting organic inbound for www.zambacloud.com, our wildlife imagery processing platform, from ChatGPT! 😲

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Peter Bull @peter.drivendata.org · 16/07/2025

Just in case you thought speech-to-text worked for children, the third column is what Whisper does. Somehow in the third example it accesses my inner monologue... I guess that's why we're excited about our upcoming challenge! kidsasr.drivendata.org

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Peter Bull @peter.drivendata.org · 30/06/2025

BioCLIP2 looks like a stellar improvement! I'm excited to think about integrating into Zamba to for open-ended classification tasks run at scale on camera trap imagery. Definitely the potential to dramatically improve CT image utility. imageomics.github.io/bioclip-2/

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Peter Bull @peter.drivendata.org · 25/06/2025

We've built so many low-fidelity prototypes in our HCD work. IMO vibecoding changes the feel of those prototypes, but doesn't change the process. Ask any designer—they'll tell you high-fidelity first iterations are often more distracting to clients than helpful. www.semafor.com/article/06/0...

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Peter Bull @peter.drivendata.org · 23/06/2025

Check out this LLM circuit trace LLM for the text: '"The statement 'this statement is false' is." It goes through a logical contradictions node, but still outputs either "true" or "false" with the highest probabilities... www.anthropic.com/research/ope...

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Peter Bull @peter.drivendata.org · 20/06/2025

A new preprint shows anonymization techniques for voices make transcription accuracy substantially worse for children versus adults. This is going to be a big challenge as we work on ASR for educational settings where we emphatically need both privacy and accuracy. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.00100

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Peter Bull @peter.drivendata.org · 06/06/2025

The gap between LLM prototype and production strikes again... in the worst possible place. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Peter Bull @peter.drivendata.org · 30/05/2025

Very cool to see the multimodal conversation CANDOR dataset that we worked on used for a new paper on conversational agents! Gets agent feedback/training loops closer to the 7-38-55 rule than text only arxiv.org/abs/2505.15922

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Peter Bull @peter.drivendata.org · 01/05/2025

Excited to be with the DD team in Utah. Heading today to talk geo data tools at #CNG2025. If you're at cloud native geo, say hi! Would love to talk ML competitions, social impact tools, foundation models, python libraries and more!

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Peter Bull @peter.drivendata.org · 28/11/2023

The OpenAI debacle showed us bad governance. Let's talk more about: (1) how we got here, (2) structure and governance, and (3) where we go from here. I believe there's still a world in which mission-driven orgs are critical players in AI. What do you think? www.linkedin.com/pulse/openai...

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