Derek Kirk Kim

Teaching and Learning with Comics: An Interactive Workshop This is a hands-on workshop for anyone looking to use comics in a classroom. Peter Carlson (Green Dot Public Schools), Susan Kirtley (Portland State University), and Antero Garcia (Stanford University) guide educators in curating powerful classroom curricula, from mini-lessons to complete units, that incorporate the medium of comics.

In January 2024, I started working full-time as a forward-deployed engineer (FDE) at Baseten. Baseten enables customers to deploy and run inference on cutting-edge generative AI models. My role as an FDE is to work with customers to deliver cutting-edge ML solutions at scale using Baseten. In the past 6 months, I've learned a lot about the kinds of challenges customers face when deploying generative AI for production use cases.

Some things you notice when you try to compile a list of 50 must-read comics about friendship: “The story about a group of young people navigating adulthood and personal relationships is told with such sympathy and perception that the book was immediately hailed as an important new work.” “Settle in to this wittily illustrated soap opera (Bechdel calls it ‘half op-ed column and half endless serialized Victorian novel’) of the lives, loves, and politics of a cast of characters, most of them...