#Algorithmic

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

High-stakes tests are garbage, pedagogically bankrupt assessment tools that act as a form of empirical facewash for "meritocracy."1/ They primarily serve as a way for wealthy parents to buy good

Seasoned Ape 🐒

szn_ape

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. - ConfuciusStake, LP, or bond with $TAO and you will never have to

Joy Buolamwini

jovialjoy

https://venturebeat.com/2020/08/23/the-term-ethical-ai-is-finally-starting-to-mean-something/This analysis of the Gender Shades paper seems to miss how it has been employed to shift policy + industry practices contribute to legislative wins

Aleksandra Korolova

korolova

Facebook’s ad delivery algorithms have been known to introduce bias and create echo chambers for job, housing and politics ads for several years. Our latest research shows that for job

Josh Triplett

josh_triplett

I love TWiR's quote of the week this week: "Just because Rust allows you to write super cool non-allocating zero-copy algorithms safely, doesn’t mean every algorithm you write should be

John Davisson

johndavisson

Thread: There's a remarkable back-and-forth about predictive policing and racial profiling in today’s Fourth Circuit ruling from United States v. Curry.Opinion here: https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/184233A.P.pdf The en banc cour

Ali Atiia

aliatiia_

1/12 Too many blockchain projects to keep up with. But one trick is to focus _only_ on the "weakest link" in a project, its most experimental/unproven-yet feature. Other "10x" improvements

Duke of Qin

qin_duke

The Great Firewall was one of China's most forward looking policies and resulted in the development of an entire ecosystem of domestic internet companies found basically nowhere else. The idea

Laurie Hurson

lauriehurson

Responding to the shift to online education in the Spring of 2020, one of the @GCTLC’s Guiding Principles for this academic year is to critically consider the ethical issues posed

Juan

JU4NMEND0Z4

Here’s great piece on why substack could go the way of medium by @adam_keesling 3 points in thread https://napkinmath.substack.com/p/substack-rhymes-with-medium 1/3 There’s a long road to venture scale based on 10%

Dr Murphy (aka David Watkins)

DrMurphy11

This is utterly absurd! The dangerously flawed unvalidated @babylonhealth Chatbot, continues to put WOMEN at risk of #DeathByChatbot #GenderBias. A 60yr old 20/day Smoker with Sudden Onset Central Chest Pain

Iris van Rooij

IrisVanRooij

(Interesting. So the formal notions drove theoretical innovation such as pursued by Simon, Newell and others, while the technologies seemed most relevant for *acceptance* of those notions and theoretical constructs

Saleem Khan #JOVRNALISM founder| invstg8.net #VRTO

SaleemKhanNews

Locked out of my @saleemkhan account (of 14 years) despite @TwitterSupport/@TwitterSafety saying it would be restored in "hours" － on May 8.I'm here until they fix it. Let's reconnect.#journalist #journalism

Dee, the Weaver in Green (they/them)

DeePennyway

Messy thought incoming: Our community spaces are so deeply tied to Twitter (with all its many flaws, algorithmic and otherwise) that just bringing up the topic of community justice (restorative

Girls on Fire 5679

frcteam5679

During our weekly team e-meetings, we're taking time to learn about contemporary Black women in STEM fields!Today we learned about Dr. Safiya Noble. She is an American researcher; educator; and

Suguna Misra

suguna_misra

While recent conversations surrounding AI bias were necessary & useful, several notable works of prolific researchers on the topic were never acknowledged or even quoted. So, I am starting a