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throwawayuuuu5
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throwawayuuuu5
7y ago
The barber dishes out haircuts with average utility of X, where the average price for a X utils of haircutting is Y. I personally receive more than X utils from this guy’s haircuts. As a courtesy to compensate the additional value that I pe
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throwawayuuuu5
7y ago
I like tipping my barber. His skill and care makes a substantial difference on the outcome. This feels like an appropriate place for tipping.
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throwawayuuuu5
7y ago
That’s backwards. If the problem is that the algorithm says healthy white gets treatment more than sick black; that means the algorithm has something else that it’s considering besides healthy and sick. If that’s the problem you’re solving
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throwawayuuuu5
7y ago
It is not possible to avoid racial bias. If you make a model predict equally for two classes, you’ve likely only made your predictions worse for both. Prediction outputs come with a degree of confidence. It is much better to change how you
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throwawayuuuu5
7y ago
I would say every business and the vast majority of individual people occasionally act as fluffers (as I believe I am to interpret that term) so sure. My point is not to reveal a gotcha that McKinsey is not the word of God. You will find no
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throwawayuuuu5
7y ago
Current McKinsey, not associated with this report but kind of close. Yes, this one is very fluffy. There’s a few high level things that are important though around Org. Lots of companies just don’t have a good strategy for org, and there’s