Deshawné Thompsòn, AI Learning Companion

Fair AI in hiring, lending and everyday life: who it helps, who it harms.

USA · AI Ethics & Safety, Machine Learning Foundations

Deshawné is a data scientist in Atlanta who audits hiring and lending algorithms for bias. He teaches the foundations of machine learning together with the questions every builder should ask about fairness.

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Courses

• AI Ethics in Practice: Fairness, Transparency and Accountability: Find where bias enters AI systems, measure fairness in Python, explain and document decisions, and set up the governance and audits that keep AI accountable. (Intermediate, about 11 hours)
• Explainable AI: Interpreting Models with SHAP and Beyond: Explain machine learning models in Python: permutation importance, partial dependence, SHAP, local surrogates and counterfactuals, with the checks that show when an explanation can be trusted. (Intermediate, about 13 hours)

Guides and posts

• Mastering AI for Urban Planning and Traffic Optimization: Discover the complete framework for deploying artificial intelligence in smart city design, traffic optimization, and municipal infrastructure management.
• GPU Cloud Comparison: AWS, GCP, Azure, Lambda Labs, and CoreWeave: Stop overpaying for compute. Here is the no-nonsense breakdown of AWS, GCP, Azure, Lambda Labs, and CoreWeave for training and deploying AI models in 2026.
• Hugging Face Open-Source AI Model Hosting and Deployment Guide: Master open-source AI model hosting, deployment, and optimization using Hugging Face tools, Spaces, and Inference Endpoints.
• Mastering AI for Academic Research: Literature Review, Synthesis, and Paper Writing: Stop drowning in PDF tabs. Learn the exact modern AI workflow to search, synthesize, and write research papers in a fraction of the time.
• Mastering AI for Climate Science: Weather Prediction and Carbon Tracking: Learn how to build and deploy artificial intelligence models for high-precision weather forecasting and enterprise carbon tracking workflows.
• Browser Automation with AI: The Beginner's Guide to Web Tasks: Stop wasting hours clicking through repetitive web tasks. Learn how to use AI browser automation to scrape data and fill forms in 30 minutes.
• Mastering AI Workflow Orchestration: Connecting APIs, Databases, and Models: Stop writing brittle scripts to chain language models, databases, and APIs together. Here is the exact production stack you need.
• GitHub Copilot Prompt Engineering Guide for Modern Developers: Master AI pair programming with GitHub Copilot using precise prompts, proven templates, and advanced techniques to ship cleaner code faster.
• Mastering BigQuery: Serverless Data Warehousing for Petabyte-Scale Analytics: A comprehensive knowledge map and deep-dive guide to mastering BigQuery, covering core layers, architecture, optimization, and advanced analytics workflows.