#Algorithms

Gillian Smith

gillianmsmith

Wrong things that I learned as an undergraduate in computer science, either explicitly in courses or implicitly through its culture (or both!), that I have had to unlearn over the

Joan Donovan, PhD 🦫

BostonJoan

What fresh hell... after Occupy, several disillusioned activists got into penny stocks and realized that by coordinating in a a Facebook group they could make a decent amount of money

Alexander Fedderly 🌹

Alex_Fedderly

I've been part of the #WritingCommunity for 14 months. It's been a great experience, and it's awesome how people here work so hard to support each other. But what if,

Sarah Withee | #BlackLivesMatter 🖤

geekygirlsarah

Your reminder that credit scores aren't for how good you are at managing credit. They're for telling financial institutions how much of a reliable money-making machine you are for them.

Tim Harford

TimHarford

I try to draw some broader lessons from the algoshambles here: https://www.ft.com/content/f32b3124-6b77-4b33-9de1-7dbc6599724b1/ First, as Daniel Kahneman reminded us, we often substitute easy questions for hard ones and don't realise w

Lexi the Raya Stan

lexithefirstcos

Really diving into trying to be a full-time content creator is scary and can be isolating, so I think I'll share my thoughts along the way. These are not pro-tips

kuutti / bIm

snoorau

I've been really art blocked for a long time, mostly because I got super discouraged how social media has made art feel like a fast food media, especially with Twitter

Jordan O'Connor

jdnoc

I'm working on something new.Something I know nothing about, but it plays to my strengths.I'll be documenting the journey of learning, practicing, and executing the idea.Welcome to deep year, where

Luca Dellanna

DellAnnaLuca

SEMANTIC WARSIn the physical past, power was monopoly on violence.In the digital future, it is about controlling who processes information and how.(Thread, 1/N) 2/ First, a note. The distinction is

Mozilla

mozilla

The producers of The Social Dilemma brought some serious and valid concerns about the impact of social media platforms to a broad Netflix audience. BUT… There were glaring omissions,

Oliver Jumpertz

oliverjumpertz

So many people say "learn the fundamentals", but sometimes it's difficult as a beginner to even remotely grasp what that means. And that's okay.Let's talk about it, and let me

Eric Jang 🇺🇸🇹🇼

ericjang11

1/n GPT-3 is very expensive to train, costing an estimated $5M (even when you know exactly what to do). 2/n We are so far away from building AGI, but I

David

dvdfu

LRT: feeds are & will forever on be deeply algorithmic & reward obedient posting habits with exposure. Lots of people like me feel like it’s exhausting & deeply inhuman to

Krishna Gade

krishnagade

2020 has been a crazy year for many reasons, but an issue that has come to the fore is the aspect of Bias, Ethics, and Censorship of Algorithms. A few

Valerio De Stefano

valeriodeste

++ BREAKING on platform work in Italy ++ A court in Bologna found that Deliveroo’s algorithm penalized workers that booked shifts and then did not logged into the platform within

Jerome Pesenti

an_open_mind

Last week I raised concerns about using #gpt3 in production because it can easily output toxic language that propagates harmful biases. I thought it was a pretty uncontroversial stance but

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