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> Where police used to sit in daily meetings to plan where to patrol, they can now spend more time actually out on patrol, since the computer's doing the planni
by quandrum 14y ago
> Where police used to sit in daily meetings to plan where to patrol, they can now spend more time actually out on patrol, since the computer's doing the planning.
While this is a nice application of machine learning, I can't help but wonder how much of their increase is due to the above fact.
Police being part bigger parts of their neighborhoods must be a non-negligible variable.
- saraid216 14y agoEven if you assume that the algorithm's quality is exactly on par with the seasoned police veterans, the fact that it's fast is a sufficient value-add by itself.
- wmf 14y agoIn that case, I've got an even cheaper and faster solution: Pick some points on the map randomly. Now that I think about it, this could be used as a control.