JangoSteve

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by JangoSteve 6y ago
> Do you think racial cases of bias outweigh other demographic biases? And what's your opinion of the general level of intent (or lack of, to fix) relative to other issues? When talking about systemic bias, I think it's less ab
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by JangoSteve 6y ago
> Your list is predominantly racial and I thought that was the point. Ah, no, that wasn't the point. They were just examples of systemic bias. The fact that so many are racial is just a reflection of the unfortunate state we find ou
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by JangoSteve 6y ago
Your analysis above is a prime example of how dangerous statistics can be when not properly considered. Even if we took your numbers above as truth, it actually does not indicate that the system isn't biased. In order to determine that
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by JangoSteve 6y ago
I'm not sure how you think my list would bifurcate into multiple lists. > It's obviously caused by studying the people who present, and then demographics changing. Nobody made a decision here with any ill intent. Both the hospi
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by JangoSteve 6y ago
Adding this to my running list of algorithms encoding and amplifying systemic bias, like: * A hospital AI algorithm discriminating against Black people when providing additional healthcare outreach by amplifying racism already in the system
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by JangoSteve 6y ago
It seems weird to view it as an either/or. "Billionaires exploit people." -- "No, they build things people want." I think that you may be able to become a billionaire without exploiting people, but it's like pl
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by JangoSteve 6y ago
> In that case, applying the remedy of the first example (a set of dates, and inferring that every 2nd (even zero length, to account for adjacent fixed) interval will be default,) introduces another bug where if you lop off any random da
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by JangoSteve 6y ago
The latest Android Firefox update also disabled several of the addons I was using, as apparently they are now incompatible until the addon developers do some extra work to fix whatever backward incompatibility Mozilla introduced with the la
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by JangoSteve 6y ago
This was pretty much an exact question I had about OAuth 10 months ago: Something I still don't understand about the OAuth flow is how it's _not_ training users to be more easily phished for actual usernames and passwords. The ver
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by JangoSteve 6y ago
I'm not sure it's just feelings to be resolved. The problem is that even DNA matching, especially the SNP genotyping which tends to be used by consumer ancestry and heritage services, is not perfect. So your daughter can end up fa
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by JangoSteve 6y ago
Someone else mentioned it already in these comments, but I'll mention again to make sure it's not missed. If you're a startup using AWS, apply for the AWS Activate program. All you need to do is apply, and they'll give y
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by JangoSteve 6y ago
One type of bias does not preclude the other. In this case, one may even strengthen the other. The argument that VCs discriminate on wealth strengthens the argument of systemic racial and gender-based bias, given the disparities in income a
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by JangoSteve 6y ago
That is exactly part of the problem, though. The thing about systemic racism and sexism, versus just regular racism and sexism, is that they're entangled (or worse, encoded) into the existing systems. You can't really solve the is
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by JangoSteve 6y ago
Genomenon | Senior (Full-stack) Software Developer | Remote | Full-time Ruby (and Rails), Python, Go, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, JavaScript (and React and Angular) Genomenon connects patients’ DNA with the billions of dollars of genomic res
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by JangoSteve 6y ago
> What happens in the case that a particular culture is more hateful? Do we just disregard any data that indicates socially unacceptable bias? That's not what was happening. If you read the link, you'll see the problem is that
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by JangoSteve 6y ago
This is exactly why I suggested actually reading the sources I posted before responding. The Google example has nothing to do with routing travelers. It was an algorithm designed to detect sentiment in online comments and to auto-delete any
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by JangoSteve 6y ago
> There's simply no indication that these aren't statistically valid priors. And we have mountains of scientific evidence to the contrary, but if dared post anything (cited, published literature) I'd be banned. I'd co
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by JangoSteve 6y ago
This is so incredibly common, it's embarrassing. I was on an expert panel about "AI and Machine Learning in Healthcare and Life Sciences" back in January, and I made it a point throughout my discussions to keep emphasizing th
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by JangoSteve 6y ago
This is so true. I've started a few startups and had a good acquisition. I've since made it one of my missions to espouse the underappreciated role that luck plays in a successful startup, and in life, in general. You don't o
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by JangoSteve 6y ago
These are really good illustrations of the quote from this article: > “Qualified immunity means that government officials can get away with violating your rights as long as they violate them in a way nobody thought of before,” said IJ At
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by JangoSteve 6y ago
Built savemifaves.org to encourage people to by gift cards to their favorite restaurants and local businesses to help them stay afloat.
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by JangoSteve 6y ago
Well don't leave us hanging. What's the answer?
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by JangoSteve 6y ago
> Delegation flows downward from an authority. Yes, exactly. You originally described delegation as flowing upward toward authority (so the opposite) when you said, "That is called delegation of responsibility. If you are not qualif
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by JangoSteve 6y ago
> That is called delegation of responsibility. If you are not qualified to make a certain professional decision or if such a decision exceeds your delegated responsibility then you need to bring somebody else in, possibly a supervisor. D
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by JangoSteve 6y ago
> If you are afraid to associate a decision with your reputation then somebody will make the decision for you. It is better to make a wrong decision early than to put that decision off to a future time. A wrong decision in the short term
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by JangoSteve 6y ago
Additionally, almost none of the nearly 400 businesses that have been submitted or added to our site for Michigan have used squareup or quickgifts for selling gift cards, so I have the same suspicion about the preponderance of those links a
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by JangoSteve 6y ago
Also, I was looking at the helpmainstreet.com website that you mentioned in your comment and noticed they had a lot of businesses all around the country with links to gift cards. It's taken a fair amount of time for us to curate the gi
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by JangoSteve 6y ago
Very nice. We've built a similar tool, mainly geared toward purchasing gift cards, for Michigan. The code was built to make it as easy as possible to manage and add new businesses, so that others can easily deploy it for their own stat
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by JangoSteve 7y ago
What you're saying makes a lot of sense to me, but I think the OP's comment still has valid insight. The point about the in-your-face bright colors all over the place could be addressed as easily as muting down the colors of the t
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by JangoSteve 7y ago
Interesting! That's definitely something I missed, thank you. I still wouldn't expect an Electron app to subvert basic browser sandboxing by default, particularly where they wouldn't have expected to need to redirect users to

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