Yep, another one. This time it's from a Credit bureau.
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I see bureaucracy as a technology we use to replace trust, but most times it just results in an unnecessary waste of resources.
"For most people, Covid-19 is a brief and mild disease but some are left struggling with symptoms including lasting fatigue, persistent pain and breathlessness for months.
The condition known as "long Covid" is having a debilitating effect on people's lives, and stories of being left exhausted after even a short walk are now common.
So far, the focus has been on saving lives during the pandemic, but there is now a growing recognition that people are facing long-term consequences of a Covid infection.
Yet even basic questions - such as why people get long Covid or whether everyone will fully recover - are riddled with uncertainty."
"Better" is extremely relative. Better for whom?
1: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/27/how-research-shows-you-can-l...
> As the COVID-19 epidemic continues to ravage the American public, an unsurprising story emerges: Poor communities are hot spots for COVID transmission. The death rate from COVID-19 appears to be staggeringly high among African Americans compared to whites. The Washington Post reports, for example, that while 14% of the Michigan population is black, 40% of COVID-19 deaths are among blacks.
> The link between poverty and infectious disease is well-documented. Influenza-related hospitalizations in low-income neighborhoods are nearly twice that of high-income neighborhoods. Pediatric hospitalizations from bacterial pneumonia are significantly higher in low-income neighborhoods compared to high-income neighborhoods. The same is largely true of tuberculosis in the U.S. where active transmission of TB is ongoing in poor neighborhoods – patterns that are not simply due to more people living in these areas.
Reference: https://theconversation.com/covid-19-is-hitting-black-and-po...
But ranked newsfeeds are not about showing people content they want, but about showing people content that will generate more revenue for the company.
BTW, "Stochastic Parrots" is a very descriptive name for the problem
> Moreover, because the training datasets are so large, it’s hard to audit them to check for these embedded biases. “A methodology that relies on datasets too large to document is therefore inherently risky,” the researchers conclude. “While documentation allows for potential accountability, [...] undocumented training data perpetuates harm without recourse.”
Since these models are being applied in a lot of fields that directly affects the life of millions of people, this is a very important and underdiscussed problem.
I really want to read the paper.
But the research is not even published yet
> [...] Though Bender asked us not to publish the paper itself because the authors didn’t want such an early draft circulating online, it gives some insight into the questions Gebru and her colleagues were raising about AI that might be causing Google concern.
Are you saying that this extreme "personal ideological belief" you just stated is applicable to every single company on the planet?
> "CAE is devoted to practical, pragmatic solutions. We’re interested in the how, not the why."
I don't know why, but it reminded me Facebook.
> The intent is to prevent all copying, both counterfeit copies and legal copies of one's own content (for example, format shifting).
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> Verance claims on their website that, while the watermark is able to survive recording through microphones (such as recording a film in a movie theater with a camcorder), as well as compression and encoding, it is imperceptible to human hearing, as well as that the presence of the watermark does not affect audio quality.
I totally agree. The right to repair[1] should be the basic premise for any device you expect to last more than a couple of months.
Awesome article, thank you for sharing!
> This rectangular world map called AuthaGraph World Map is made by equally dividing a spherical surface into 96 triangles, transferring it to a tetrahedron while maintaining areas proportions and unfolding it to be a rectangle.
> The world map can be tiled in any directions without visible seams. From this map-tiling, a new world map with triangular, rectangular or parallelogram’s outline can be framed out with various regions at its center.
http://www.authagraph.com/projects/description/%e3%80%90%e4%...
> It shows there are no "four corners of the earth" by arranging several world maps without visible seams around a world map with color. You can see Antarctica at the right bottom is close to not only South America but also Africa and Australia.
http://www.authagraph.com/products/map/product-article-01/?l...
> [...] The date won’t move up and the date won’t move back. What’s variable is the scope of the problem—the work itself. But only on the downside. You can’t fix a deadline and then add more work to it. That’s not fair. Our projects can only get smaller over time, not larger. As we progress, we separate the must-haves from the nice-to-haves and toss out the nonessentials [...]