Creating something, anything, is a joy -- it reminds us the immense freedom there is in being human. Beyond the routine, beyond the walls. So write it, paint it, compose it, hack it, shoot it... Make it happen
— François Chollet (@fchollet) June 15, 2020
Decent people getting complacent about the status quo is often a bigger obstacle to progress than reactionary activism
— François Chollet (@fchollet) June 13, 2020
1/ With DeOldify being a real business now we invested in 4 Quadro RTX 8000 48GB video cards back in March. Expensive- definitely. Worth it? Totally. I'm now having the revelation of "oh...bigger models and bigger batches do help!" rather than endlessly chasing clever hacks.
— Jason Antic (@citnaj) June 13, 2020
Someone in NLP chose to build a product with a clear use case of curtailing employees right to organize. They could have chosen not to.
— Rachael Tatman (@rctatman) June 12, 2020
As technologists, it is our job to understand the potential uses of products and minimize harm.https://t.co/E51NcWEWDz
"Have you run PCA on it?" is the data scientist's equivalent of "Have you switched it off and on again?"
— Neil Lawrence (@lawrennd) June 12, 2020
Fairness ≠ equality.
— Rediet Abebe ረድኤት (@red_abebe) June 12, 2020
So we wrote this to help broaden the conversations around algorithmic fairness to be more informed by theories of justice and questions around inequality and distribution of power.
Take a look and let us know what you think! https://t.co/ueoJ3Kaltd
HTTP status codes as emoji .. this might be a good idea?
— francesc #BlackLivesMatter (@francesc) June 11, 2020
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I signed a letter that urges the mathematics community not to add the authority of mathematics to predictive policing algorithms, which are inherently based on racist and incomplete data.
— Cathy O'Neil (@mathbabedotorg) June 11, 2020
Mathematicians, please add your name at the bottom of the form:https://t.co/A6ijAMo1oH
The scariest data is the missing data, whether it's child abuse reports that are not filed, unreported rapes, or missing police disciplinary records. We are seeing movement towards filling in some of these blind spots.
— Cathy O'Neil (@mathbabedotorg) June 11, 2020
My newest Bloomberg column:https://t.co/3OYFpwJIy4
Microsoft fires most of its human news editors, replacing them with AI. Then things get weirder and weirder (thread) https://t.co/nEnJhA6SD4
— Janelle Shane (@JanelleCShane) June 9, 2020
IBM ends all facial recognition work as CEO calls out bias and inequality https://t.co/VRDgQMsgeI | by Devin Coldewey
— TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) June 9, 2020
Predictive policing algorithms don't predict who commits crime. They predict who the police will arrest.
— Janelle Shane (@JanelleCShane) June 8, 2020
So of course the algorithm points toward people that are already overpoliced - it's trying to predict racism. Don't explicitly tell it race & it will just use other proxies. https://t.co/2plralAqOi
