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Shotsp0tter is a good example of a technology that tries to take the community out of the loop re: public safety, supposedly for efficiency, and as a result becomes antagonistic to the communities in which it is deployed.
Interesting “human in the loop” problem described in this article about Shotspotter.
Also shows the need for independent testing (if it is going to be used at all). bbc.com/news/technology-5907…
Matt Bailey retweeted
Pretty big news: The next version of @uscensusbureau's weekly Pulse survey--measuring the impact of the pandemic including income loss, mental health, and food/housing instability--will finally collect respondent's sexual orientation or gender identity federalregister.gov/public-i…
Matt Bailey retweeted
Capitalism beat communism not because it had better values but because it better embodied the message of the medium: mass production with interchangeable parts.
The winner out of 2020 will be whatever best embodies the spirit of software/mobile phones. Sneer at your own peril.
Matt Bailey retweeted
🤔 the financial pressure of COVID will reshape corporate research priorities in AI in enormously revealing ways:
was the commitment to funding ML fairness work genuine, or cosmetic?
how much of the funding on building general systems was just a luxury plaything?
Matt Bailey retweeted
they *started* with AfAm Studies dept👀
Managers throughout academia & industry are going to use this crisis to do all sorts of things they wanted to do but couldn’t get away with in normal times. Ohio U is a very wealthy institution. Admin doesn’t need to do this—they prefer to
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