This Supreme Court has been a singularly destructive force in American life, one whose malign influence touches just about every corner of society.
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āDriving while Blackā: Researchers found that Black drivers make up 70% of police traffic stops on roads where only half the drivers are Black.
63 algorithmic interventions designed to make #Facebook#Metax.com/scheufele/st...
Though Facebook can limit untrustworthy content, the new research suggests it often chooses not to.
Here's a fun way to encourage students to always look at their data. A few years ago, I wrote a script that converts a black and white png to data and plots it.
We can just hang out before or after the committee meeting.
Iām around. What talks are you going to?
The most important function for me of social media is to show me things to read that I want to read that I might not otherwise read. Bluesky does that consistently the way Twitter used to.
I heard this TED Talk many years ago (it's from 2011) & I want to share. Kathryn Schulz makes the points that "being wrong" isn't what makes us feel bad. It's "ADMITTING we're wrong" & we'll go to great lengths to avoid how that feels. www.ted.com/talks/kathry...
Most of us will do anything to avoid being wrong. But what if we're wrong about that? "Wrongologist" Kathryn Schulz makes a compelling case for not just admitting but embracing our fallibility.
š©This is a great example of a significant error that could easily slip through clinician review. Catching it requires knowledge of data the tool has access to and/or cross-checking the vaccination record (which defeats the intended purpose of the AI draft). www.nytimes.com/2024/09/24/h...
I will end it here (this was circulating on Twitter last week) with my main takeaway from the workshop: we should prioritizing our writing (and writing time) more! So... go write :) And come hear Bill's words of wisdom next time he comes to Berlin to give a course (hopefully again soon!)
