#Algorithmic

WasabiBoat Research

wasabiboat420

Just popped into the $DSD discord to check on my poor baggie.There were was a lot of talk about marketing.Getting on the right Youtubes and stuff. But I think we

Ari Paul ⛓️

AriDavidPaul

Some anecdotes on where the new money has come from to bid BTC from $10k-$18k. Retail inflows have been relatively muted. The crypto industry is at relatively low leverage. So

DHH

dhh

“Yeah, great. So let’s just tell every woman in America, ‘You might have been discriminated against, on an unknown algorithm, it’s on you to telephone ⁦GS⁩ and tell them to

Geoffrey Ingersoll

GPIngersoll

So this is crazy in terms of @googlepubpolicy suppression (and in light of news from the NYT that the WHO is basically full of shit).In April, WHO took a few

Ben Goertzel

bengoertzel

0) So, cool — Wolfram is hypothesizing our universe is a bunch of discrete relations defining a hypergraph, and it works via graph rewriting ruleshttps://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-have-a-path-to-the-fundamental-theory-of-phys

Karsten Schmidt

toxi

Some of us have been making that very point for the past 20 years...https://twitter.com/alexandrosm/status/1314383373163347968 To clarify: Though in favor of hybrid advances in those fields, also think it’s utter tech

Tim Fawns

timbocop

Discourse of educational analytics conveys a false sense of precision and objectivity and this can take away teacher choice around using the tech @j_k_knox #wearethecampus Do we cede authority to

Hyon S Chu

hyonschu

BIG thread on "Piercing the Algorithmic Veil." Let's Go.First on what the Algorithmic Veil is. It comes from the name of a legal decision hold a company's shareholders or directors

K-2S0'Hara says pumpkin pie is a vegetable 🎃🍁🍂

oharatheorem

1. My wife’s family has an interesting Christmas tradition. Her mother is one of 8 kids, and the centerpiece of their family xmas party is an ornament “exchange” that's not

Gina Neff

ginasue

A case study: Ethics alone are not enough to ensure fairness in algorithmic systems. @_KarenHao on the UK's A-level mess with quotes from me, @FryRsquared and @techchildrightshttps://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/20/1007502/uk-exam-a

Gergely Orosz

GergelyOrosz

“Hiring is broken. It’s ridiculous how companies filter for algorithmic skills & artificial puzzles.”While this is indeed happening, I’ve talked with founders who are capitalising on having a great hiring

John Raphling

JRaphling

This @propublica article gives a great illustration of why risk assessment tools are so dangerous and are a false criminal legal system reform. https://www.propublica.org/article/bill-barr-promised-to-release-prisoners-threatened-by-coronav

u221e

hdevalence

the “disinformation” part of the e2e encryption “abuse” discourse has some deeply dystopian doublespeak the basic assumption is that people cannot be trusted to have encrypted communications without there being

Aditya Mukerjee, the Otterrific 🦦 🏳️‍🌈

chimeracoder

corollary: the few times you should actually care about computational algorithmic complexity are when the unit of work is a unit of I/O (e.g. a database request), not a unit

Jade 🦉

dumplingowl

[1/4] I'm seeing a lot of ppl wonder how participating in #inktober supports Fake Parker. Even if you think it doesn't belong to him it belongs to the "community", every

Steve Luck

stevenjluck

EEG/ERP researchers: How do you decide whether a channel is "bad" and should be interpolated? I don't think I've ever seen this discussed in a paper, and I suspect that