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by zyxley 10y ago
There's something scary yet fascinating in the idea of a proactive automated matchmaker.
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by zyxley 10y ago
That's not a structural issue.
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by zyxley 10y ago
I think the obvious answer here is to genetically engineer a "computer mouse" that can mentally work complex algorithms, as supplied via a pet training clicker. Then, you'll be able to click your computer mouse to solve probl
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by zyxley 10y ago
> equal or accurate, you can't have both By "equal and accurate", I mean a result that corresponds to actual recidivism rates for as many demographic groups as possible (males, females, different races, different ages, com
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by zyxley 10y ago
> Could you clearly lay out the statistical argument that you believe implies that E[\hat{\theta} - \theta] > 0? Again: I don't care about your domain-specific definition of "bias". I care about whether the end result
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by zyxley 10y ago
Your thought experiment here is incorrect, given that the analysis compares COMPAS results to actual recidivism rates and shows over- and under-prediction in comparison to them.
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by zyxley 10y ago
> but do not show bias. At best they show disparate impact I have no interest in playing but-what-does-the-exact-dictionary-definition-say semantics games.
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by zyxley 10y ago
Uh... it's all right there in your link, across several sections that analyze specific parts of the data. > Black defendants are 45% more likely than white defendants to receive a higher score correcting for the seriousness of their
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by zyxley 10y ago
I feel like a better analogy, especially in this case, would be "it's not breaking into the house, it's looking in the window". Non-technical people would generally understand the equivalent of, say, a business leaving a
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by zyxley 10y ago
> To be fair That's not fair at all.
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by zyxley 10y ago
For me, this starts with my complete distrust of metered taxi pricing in the first place. Literally every taxi ride I've ever had in the States had the driver take a longer route than they could have just gotten from Google, sometimes
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by zyxley 10y ago
The Serenity Prayer may resonate with you. > God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, > Courage to change the things I can, > And wisdom to know the difference.
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by zyxley 10y ago
I'm reminded of the inevitable "I'm not biased, but I'm going to complain about this because I think it's an attack on me" that comes up whenever anyone on the internet mentions that institutional racism exists
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by zyxley 10y ago
Nitpicking, but: "Unauthorized" is better terminology than "illegal", given that deportation is an administrative process rather than a civil or criminal one.
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by zyxley 10y ago
> Still, the attorney general's office says the bill "contains more than minor errors." > For example, if a person suspected of drug trafficking is stopped by local law enforcement on Interstate 80 en route to another s
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by zyxley 10y ago
> Is the all-caps a legal requirements? No.
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by zyxley 10y ago
> Personally, I think there's a massive economic explosion waiting to happen in making programming tools more accessible to average people It's called Excel.
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by zyxley 10y ago
Any chance of adding something where code blocks can have some kind of styling applied to them (for example, partial widths)? Combine that with 'hidden' code blocks and there could be some interesting territory here for non-techni
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by zyxley 10y ago
> Is this manipulation? Yes.
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by zyxley 10y ago
> Get mistaken for a teenager on a prom date, and you can be refused service in a fancy restaurant. Wait, what? I don't understand. Why do people feel that teenagers can't be allowed to have nice dinners?
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by zyxley 10y ago
It's good to see more ST updates, but it's sad that it feels like they're only even bothering because of the popularity of Atom.
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by zyxley 10y ago
I'm surprised there's no www.trump yet.
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by zyxley 10y ago
Low user numbers are something of a self-fulfilling prophecy if it's a bad port in the first place, though.
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by zyxley 10y ago
Civ 5 did a bit of experimenting with distinctly asymmetrical nations - for example, there's Venice, which can only directly control a single city. It feels like they completely forgot about that kind of thing when they got to BE, thou
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by zyxley 10y ago
"Today's lucky 10,000", etc.
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by zyxley 10y ago
Uh, that's literally exactly how the article describes it. > Drowning people cannot wave for help. Nature instinctively forces them to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water’s surface. Pressing down on the surface o
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by zyxley 10y ago
No file organization? Having the files automatically organized when the metadata is updated is literally the entire reason I've stuck with iTunes so far.
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by zyxley 10y ago
What existing tools can automatically generate a virtual filesystem based on tag metadata?
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by zyxley 10y ago
Given the right to a lawyer and the inevitability of technical complications with a proprietary system, I have to wonder if this is even constitutional.
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by zyxley 10y ago
"Suburbia" as a term in the US pretty definitionally includes single-family homes on small plots, single-use zoning, homogenous family incomes and home values, and a strict street hierarchy with culs-de-sac. Add all these up and y

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