#Algorithmic

Katy Weathington

KatyCantSpell

I've spent about three years researching and wrote my MS thesis on algorithmic crime mapping, predictive policing, etc. So I'm going to lay out some things I learned in my

Hillel

hillelogram

There's so many ways we can "not know" how to apply our knowledge to something. Given a situation where X is useful, you could:1. Not realize X is a thing

Belinda Barnet

manjusrii

Google’s new blog post is digging its heels in about a specific part of the news bargaining code: 52N algorithmic ranking. This part of the legislation was designed so Google

Noely ⚡️🏐

YaThinkN

You know what would be really cool?If EVERY SINGLE Media outlet who spruiked "welfare crackdown" as part of 2016 election campaign, particularly in relation to budget costings, NOW hit up

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

Friendly reminder: check your spam folder at least once a week. Spam is a wicked problem and while algorithmic classification has gotten fairly good, it will necessarily miss stuff. Important

Rachel Thomas

math_rachel

My talk on "Getting Specific about Algorithmic Bias"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-6YGPrmtYc&list=PLtmWHNX-gukLQlMvtRJ19s7-8MrnRV6h6&index=5&t=0s I like this framework from @harini824 on how different sources of bias have dif

Dana Schwartz

DanaSchwartzzz

Ugh. People are making fun of this girl because, I guess, she *sounds* vapid, but the truth is, she's asking genuinely intellectually curious questions about math! Calculus *IS* abstract! And

Marco Rogers

polotek

This is a perfect example of why we are stuck in this place. This experiment is seeking to answer a question that misses the point entirely. And it muddies the

Rebecca Lambert: Punk As F***😊

LadyLiminal1

Evening AllThis afternoon I attended a great presentation as part of @TykePsychoGeog Meandering in an Algorithmic Autonomous Vehicular Future by @SaurabhNimsakar Below is a wee extended thread...(1) (2) Digital companies

Jamie Bernstein

UAJamie

Hi, I’m a person who writes algorithms & I have a lot of thoughts on algorithms that result in biases against women & people of color, which seems to be

Thomas Pine™-Free Thinker

Ameripundit2020

Jack, I'm an IT guy. I have been documenting Twitter's algorithmic shadow-banning and error-banning for years. Cut the crap. Twitter is using an entire suite of server side scripts to

Chris Harte Unstuck

charte

If I were a #Year12 student in Australia, I would be spending some of my iso time putting together a portfolio of work I have done that I am proud

Daniel Ershov

ershov_daniel

New working paper just came out through @CESifo (joint w Steph Assad, Rob Clark and Lei Xu). We look at the effects of mass adoption of algorithmic pricing software on

Justin Scherer

justinschrr

A guaranteed recipe for terrible tech that makes human lives worse seems to be when some tool becomes mandatory and the makers of that tool are not directly incentivized by

Abeba Birhane

Abebab

I hate to sound ungrateful but since the publication of 'Algorithmic colonization of Africa' I've been getting emails along the lines of 'are we doing it wrong?', 'what should we

SBF

SBF_Alameda

1) What is COMP, you ask? Why is everyone talking about it, and why is FTX listing it? A thread. 2) COMP is the governance token of @compoundfinance, a DeFi