This post is made up of a collection of 10 Github repositories consisting in part, or in whole, of IPython (Jupyter) Notebooks, focused on transferring data science and machine learning concepts. This warmup notebook is from postdoctoral researcher Randal Olson, who uses the common Python ecosystem data analysis/machine learning/data science stack to work with the Iris dataset. Aaron Masino has shared a series of very detailed, very technical machine learning IPython Notebook learning resources. From UC Boulder's Research Computing group, this older collection of notebooks (it's from way back in Fall 2013) covers a wide range of material, with an apparent focus on Linux command line-powered data management.

The possibility of constructing a personal AI raises many ethical and religious questions that have been dealt with seriously only by imaginative works of fiction; they have largely been ignored by technical experts and by philosophical and theological ethicists. Arguing that a personal AI is possible in principle, and that its accomplishments could be adjudicated by the Turing Test, the article suggests some of the moral issues involved in AI experimentation by comparing them to issues in medical experimentation. Finally, the article asks questions about the capacities and possibilities of such an artifact for making moral decisions. It is suggested that much a priori ethical thinking is necessary and that, that such a project cannot only stimulate our moral imaginations, but can also tell us much about our moral thinking and pedagogy, whether or not it is ever accomplished in fact.