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  1. Re:alogrithms aren't racist on Google Apologises For Photos App's Racist Blunder · · Score: 1

    Thanks :) It got flipped back to insightful at some point, at least.

  2. Re:Accepting Responsibility on Google Apologises For Photos App's Racist Blunder · · Score: 1

    It's called an "apology" - did you skip that day in kindergarten?

  3. Re:Accepting Responsibility on Google Apologises For Photos App's Racist Blunder · · Score: 1

    Woah bud, calm down. You weren't on this development team, were you?

  4. Re:alogrithms aren't racist on Google Apologises For Photos App's Racist Blunder · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But the people writing the algorithm and choosing the input data *can* be racist. And even in the absence of malice, you can create racist outcomes.

    If your training set has many photos of white people and few photos of black people, it's not going to be great at recognizing black people. If it doesn't know what black people look like, it's bound to misclassify them more often than white people.

    Anecdotally, I noticed that the Microsoft "how old are you" site a while back recognized me (a white person) in every picture, but only detected my (black) partner in about a third of the pictures I fed it. In one instance, in a screenshot of a video chat, it recognized my little 100x100 picture in the bottom right, but failed to detect my partner's face in the center.

    Your real-world performance can only be as good as your test/training data.

  5. Re: What were they thinking? on Disney Bans Selfie Sticks · · Score: 2

    There really oughta be a rule banning all these unjustified rules.

  6. Re: Hardly Surprising on Average Duration of Hiring Process For Software Engineers: 35 Days · · Score: 1

    See, you'd know that if you'd gone to college.

  7. Re:Really? on The Vicious Circle That Is Sending Rents Spiraling Higher · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When the cost of everything is going up (the value of the dollar is going down), that's inflation.

    When the cost of one specific thing is going up - that's not inflation.

  8. Re:Subsidize the supply side on The Vicious Circle That Is Sending Rents Spiraling Higher · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd much rather have healthy people than a healthy market.

  9. Re:URLs on YouTube Algorithm Can Decide Your Channel URL Now Belongs To Someone Else · · Score: 3, Informative

    They didn't get the channel. They just got the shorthand URL - https://www.youtube.com/user/l... still goes to his channel, he still has all his followers, etc. This is just redirection of the shorthand URL https://www.youtube.com/lush/ to Lush Cosmetic's channel.

    Probably their algorithm, like most of Google's stuff, is based on usage - they saw that people frequently visited /lush/; then went to the channel for Lush Cosmetics afterwards.

  10. Re: Horray for Taylor Swift. on Taylor Swift: Apple's Disdain For Royalties Is 'Shocking, Disappointing' · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you're interested in reading a bit more of her rationale, she posted her announcement on her tumblr page, here: http://taylorswift.tumblr.com/...

  11. Re:Don't want to watch it on Open Source Hardware Pioneer Ladyada Interviews the New MakerBot CEO · · Score: 0

    Are you talking about Martha Stewart? Because that's all I found on google - well, that and your comment.

    Your G+ avatar is awful, by the way - you should really shave that facial hair..

  12. Re: Devils advocate here on School Lunch Program Scans Student Thumbprints For 'Tracking Purposes' · · Score: 1

    This was my first thought too. Forget the privacy concerns, how much money are they wasting?

  13. Re:The downside is taxpayers... on FCC Votes To Subsidize Broadband Connections For Low-Income Households · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because, as amazing as Basic Income would be, the outrage would be tremendous if anyone got close to passing it.

    It's the best solution, but in today's political climate and for the forseeable future, it's a total non-starter.

    (Also, the FCC isn't really the agency that's able to give poor people cash directly).

  14. Re:Identities on Ask Slashdot: What's the Harm In a Default Setting For Div By Zero? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, 0/0 is still undefined.

  15. Yes on Ask Slashdot: What's the Harm In a Default Setting For Div By Zero? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Does anyone want their div by zero errors to result in anything other than zero?

    Yes.

  16. Re:FYI on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    Nope, Obama loves us now. :)

  17. Re:LOL ... awesome ... on SpaceX Is Building a Hyperloop Test Track · · Score: 1

    If only any salespeople were good.

  18. Re:Visible controllers on Oculus Announces Partnership With Microsoft · · Score: 1

    It's a controller, so just put it on your lap before you put the headset on.

  19. Re: Interesting person on A Technical Look Inside TempleOS · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I know several people who are schizophrenic - none of them are malicious, racist assholes like this guy, with or without their medication.

  20. Re:Subsidies in the form of tax write-offs on How Does Musk's Government Funding Compare To Competitors? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget about the $140 billion too-big-to-fail subsidies GE got, either.

  21. Re: Changes on SourceForge Responds To nmap Maintainer's Claims · · Score: 1

    8chan, really? I don't like what sourceforge is doing but I'm sure as heck not going to that cesspool.

  22. Sure are a lot of Anonymous Cowards on here. Do the shills not even bother registering anymore?

  23. Re: Fifth Amendment - He Isn't Required To Confess on Why Is It a Crime For Dennis Hastert To Evade Government Scrutiny? · · Score: 1

    Lying is very different than not telling the truth.

  24. Re: Why is this on Slashdot? on Why Is It a Crime For Dennis Hastert To Evade Government Scrutiny? · · Score: 2

    It appeals to the anti-authoritarian crowd here.

  25. Re: Remember folks... on Typing 'http://:' Into a Skype Message Trashes the Installation Beyond Repair · · Score: 2

    Nope. The problem was that it crashes when trying to read your logs, and if it didn't have the logs it would fetch them from the server.