#Algorithms

Casey Fiesler, PhD, JD, geekD

cfiesler

"algorithm changes gender prediction from female to male when dr. is added" is so bafflingly bad that I am ALMOST surprised that such a bad algorithm was knowingly released into

Norasferatu 🧛

NoraReed

this is panopticon shit. i guarantee you that head and eye tracking shit is automated and bullshit, toohttps://twitter.com/LegendAriee16/status/1304098649186742273 if eye tracking was cheap enough to do well in something like

Rich Moore

richardhmoore

Excited to be in #AGU20’s tutorial on #MachineLearning for #Geoscience today with over 1200 registered participants from across the world! First time I'm hearing about the Zarr data format for

Amelia McNamara

AmeliaMN

Next Tuesday my institution is offering a "lunch and learn” (light on the lunch) on Assessing Students in the Fall with Integrity and Compassion. I’m excited they’re letting me do

Tom Cross

_decius_

This is the second draft of a twitter thread that highlights an interesting connection between search engine optimization and disinformation that I think merits further investigation. 1/10 Yesterday, Trump posted

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RokoMijicUK

I have finally finished @robinhanson's Age of Em. I definitely cannot recommend the book as-is, but I think that a condensed version that was about 25% as long and contained

Matt Garrett

MattGarrett3

The 3 main risks to the vaccines being a panacea narrative has been:1) execution - we got this today2) adoption/usage - ongoing3) a variant strain#3 would be the most shocking.

Philippe Lemoine

phl43

Beautiful. (h/t @Scientific_Bird) Now, by the Law of Lemoine about papers that purport to show the world is terribly unfair, if I go and dig into the paper's data/tables, I'm

Molly McKew

MollyMcKew

The rage-engage cycle of posting content to denounce it is a key part of how malign narratives gain traction on social & traditional mediaStop incentivizing toxic, malign contentMy new post

Neoliberal 🌐

ne0liberal

Some thoughts about polls that come out about "X% of republicans think such and such":For many, polling is cheering. It's not about giving an accurate, literal answer. It's about being

Kodama Mama

CaseyExplosion

I still constantly think about something Jim Sterling said; that when they do positive content, like showing off a smaller game they really like, people just don't watch it.I talk

Julia Angwin

JuliaAngwin

Facebook is a newstand. But no one can see which news Facebook is pushing to the top.So we built an app for that called #CitizenBrowser. Our first finding: the sharp

Nan Hayworth, M.D.

NanHayworth

If I may expand a bit: findings indicate an anomaly in results for the proportion of Trump-only versus Biden-only votes in a given precinct, versus the proportion of straight-ticket GOP

Suren 💚✨ BCM Gala

surenliciousart

Original content creators, open this thread Thank you for sharing snippets of your world and characters with us. Thank you for letting us read your comics and books. Thank

TimAkers

TimAkers

A call to action for readers and writers:Let's all be clear about something. The coronavirus lockdown has been terrible for the publishing industry. The whole industry, from top to bottom,

Alec Karakatsanis

equalityAlec

THREAD: @Harvard is offering a class where elite students can learn from ex-military about using "counterinsurgency methods" from Iraq and Afghanistan to "clean up" Black and Brown communities in Massachusetts.

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