Re: [FRIAM] speaking of analytics

2016-09-08 Thread Roger Critchlow
See the result of the AI judged beauty contest? Apparently the training set needed more curation. Very teachable moment. -- rec -- On Sep 8, 2016 7:10 PM, "Marcus Daniels" wrote: > Racial profiling is a single dimensional predictor. It's bad because it > is regressive, not because race is a

Re: [FRIAM] speaking of analytics

2016-09-08 Thread Marcus Daniels
Racial profiling is a single dimensional predictor. It's bad because it is regressive, not because race is a useless predictor. There are lots of attributes like that, and big data is just puts them together to predict aggregate behaviors about people without really having a theory of mind of t

[FRIAM] speaking of analytics

2016-09-08 Thread glen ☣
The case against big data: "It’s like you’re being put into a cult, but you don’t actually believe in it" http://www.salon.com/2016/09/08/the-case-against-big-data-it-is-like-youre-being-put-into-a-cult-but-you-dont-actually-believe-in-it/ But it’s opaque right? Which is also what a lot of the

Re: [FRIAM] Wisdom of Crowds vs Kenneth Arrow

2016-09-08 Thread glen ☣
Re: Clinton's machine: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/hillary-clinton-data-campaign-elan-kriegel-214215 "And overnight, in some of the few hours that headquarters isn’t whirring with activity, the team’s computers run 400,000 simulations of the fall campaign in what amounts to

[FRIAM] Fwd: [netlogo-users] NetLogo 6.0 beta release

2016-09-08 Thread Stephen Guerin
Some nice changes in Netlogo 6.0 including, more powerful tasks, 3D terrain surfaces, cleaner video creation and viewing and multilevel (composable) models -- Forwarded message -- From: uri wilensky uri.wilen...@gmail.com [netlogo-users] < netlogo-us...@yahoogroups.com> Date: Tue,