@ChelleCF

AI Engineer, biologist, St. Louisan

Joined March 2014
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I’ve been calling a certain kind of AI project a “filing cabinet project”: how do we make everything an organization knows legible to an AI? I wrote about that, institutional world models, and why sometimes you have to go to the warehouse. mfaits.github.io/blog/2026/0…

Filing Cabinets, Institutional World Models, and Going to the Warehouse

This blog post from Byrne Hobart does an excellent job contextualizing the types of project that I’ve been seeing over and over in data science lately: https://www.thediff.co/archive/forward-deployed/

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A few years ago I taught Data Science through LaunchCode’s CoderGirl program in St. Louis. Wrote about how teaching made me a better data scientist, and how much I miss teaching mfaits.github.io/blog/2026/0…

Teaching Data Science Made Me a Better Data Scientist

I taught two cycles of the CoderGirl Data Science course, and it remains a highlight of my career so far. LaunchCode is a non-profit in St. Louis that teaches people to code for free. CoderGirl...

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Wrote a bit about why I’m optimistic about what AI can do for the world mfaits.github.io/2026/01/20/…
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Kelsey Markey@kelmarkey28 Nov 2023
terrible questions on data science applications, part 2
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Opinion: The election shows the United States is a broken country theglobeandmail.com/opinion/… <-- my latest for @globeandmail

Opinion: The election shows the United States is a broken country

The country is a heartbreaking place to live. Dangerous times are coming, full of disease, violence and instability – regardless who wins, writes author Sarah Kendzior

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Ian Froeb@ianfroeb3 Jun 2020
This is a black-owned directory of black-owned businesses in St. Louis. fortheculturestl.com/

ForTheCultureSTL

Directory of black businesses and events in the St. Louis area

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Health Transformer @KimberlyGandy1 of @playithealth was just recently presented w/ the Pipeline Entrepreneur (Member) Inspiration award by @pipelineorg. Huge congrats and well deserved! 👏👏bit.ly/2nrznpz
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Congratulations to the incoming class of 2018! #Pipelineinnovators xitter.cf/siliconprairie/status/…
Silicon Prairie News@SiliconPrairie26 Jan 2018
.@PIPELINEorg celebrates Entrepreneurial Expression at the 11th annual #Innovators gala bit.ly/2BtSc0m #entrepreneurs
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Brought my dapper friend on the train to KC for @PIPELINEorg #pipelineinnovators tmw. Ready to pass the torch to the next Innovator of the Year!
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Chef Clayton is honored to be voted BEST CHEF in Omaha for the 5th straight year! Omaha, you rock!! Should we dare take it to James Beard status of Best Chef in the Midwest? You tell us by voting now!: ow.ly/qXTP30gyNmm
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DBBS student Alex Russo (@scienceboo), co-president of BALSA, talked to @scienmag about the non-profit group: sciencemag.org/careers/2017/…
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Joe Biden
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There is only one side. #charlottesville
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Marcy having a patriotic day at @GatewayGrizzlie park #ourturf #July4
4th of July at @GatewayGrizzlie park #OurTurf #July4 #HonestAbe @PhDeeMarie
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#SPAwards is kicking off with our emcees @shonna_dorsey and @keithfix 🎉 #startups #Omaha
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Congrats Nai-Wen Tien for winning the James L. O'Leary prize for excellence in neuroscience research neuroscienceresearch.wustl.e…
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Congrats to @WUSTL team, Pro-Arc Diagnostics, on being nominated for a @SiliconPrairie Award! They need your vote! bit.ly/vote-for-ProArc
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Nate Silver
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At least the Falcons won the popular vote
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BEC @ Wash U@wustl_bec12 Dec 2016
Learn more about B2BC Business Plan-writing competition,tomorrow (12/13)! RSVP & more deets here: goo.gl/zkCj9t #BEC16 #WashUFuse
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Translantic partnership between @playithealth and @CaragonLtd announced in Dublin during GEN week. Love the Irish. playithealth.com
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