The most interesting part of statistics for me has often been trying to make sense of what is happening at the edges of the technical solutions, where some yet unformalized judgment has to come in and make it work.
Conversations about privacy and security often focus on technology and give scant attention to the human, non-technological factors that affect personal privacy and security. This post covers a range of concrete steps we can all take to regain control over what, when, and with whom we share.
Remember, even with privacy settings in place, your data belongs to the platform owner, not you. This is a critical point to understand in any digital space, regardless of ownership or whether it is centralized or decentralized.
… we owe loyalty not to a president or a party, but to the Constitution of the United States, and loyalty to our conscience and to our God. My allegiance to all three is why I am here to say, while I concede this election, I do not concede the fight that fuels this campaign, the fight for freedom, for opportunity, for fairness and the dignity of all people, a fight for the ideals at the heart of our nation, the ideals that reflect America at our best. That is a fight I will never give up.
I think we have to acknowledge that Donald Trump knows our country better than we do. I think he figured out that anger and, frankly, fear were way more powerful than appealing to people’s better angels. That anger and fear were going to work in this election, whether you’re afraid of immigrants or afraid of people who are trans — he figured that out.
The vote, placed in the hands of those who have been excluded and marginalized, is an opportunity to change an agenda that has been set primarily for men for the majority of American history. This is a prospect that has long been a thrill to some and a threat to others.
On Teen Vogue.
This magazine for teenagers makes point after point about our culpability as Americans in human suffering and how that might be affected by the two candidates in play.
The UW researchers tested three open-source, large language models (LLMs) and found they favored resumes from white-associated names 85% of the time, and female-associated names 11% of the time. Over the 3 million job, race and gender combinations tested, Black men fared the worst with the models preferring other candidates nearly 100% of the time.
Why do machines have such an outsized bias for picking white male job candidates? The answer is a digital take on the old adage “you are what you eat.”
#AI
The poll offers a rare look at the priorities of Black women voters, a population that is one of the most dedicated voting blocs and plays a pivotal role in community voter mobilization.
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Organizing principles range from simple (product line -> product category -> product taxonomy) to complex (a complete business vocabulary that explains the data in the graph). Think of an organizing principle as a conceptual map or metadata layer overlaying the data and relationships in the graph.
#Area #KnowledgeGraph
Nessel made her remarks about Trump and Harris at an elections-related journalism training event hosted by the National Press Foundation. A reporter asked the attorney general about one of her biggest concerns with 100 days to go before the November 5 election. Nessel noted Trump has indicated that he won’t accept the results of the upcoming election.
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“Christians, get out and vote! Just this time – you won’t have to do it any more,” the Republican former president said on Friday night at a rally hosted in West Palm Beach, Florida, by the far-right advocacy group Turning Point Action.
“You know what? It’ll be fixed! It’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote any more, my beautiful Christians.”
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Experts on authoritarianism warn the public to take Trump seriously when he speaks in that manner.
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