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Facebook deletes medical marijuana pages
- kafkaesq 11y agoReally now, training their classifier to distinguish between pages containing "420" and "bong" versus words like "dispensary" and "medical" couldn't have been very hard. That is, provided you stop and actually think first about what you're trying to classify for. Which apparently no one did, in this case. "Mark says no more pro-drug pages out there, please -- advertisers don't like it." "Mmm OK! Done!" It doesn't matter how many experts they hire, or how many vanity projects they publish -- or how many fancy graph algorithm questions they ask in their interview process -- if they don't examine the basic, common sense, wetware-level decision-making process that determine how these tools actually get used, they'll never stop making boneheaded mistakes like these.