AI is getting better at performing mass categorization of photos and text. A developer can scrape a bunch of photos from, say, Facebook -- either directly, likely violating the terms of service, or through offering an app by which people ...
I participate in a regular poll by the Christian Science Monitor on Internet policy topics. This week's question was about the recent data breaches at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management:
As you can see, most people said yes. I count myself ...
The strange thing about it is that the line is blurry between just assigning a final grade and calling that final grade a “prediction” of what a “real” final grade would have been.
I guess the big differences are the bizarre attempt to use statistical modeling, and the secrecy. twitter.com/random_walker/…
The IB program curtailed its school year and canceled final exams. Instead of letting grades be what they were at the time of the shutdown, or using a simple and generous formula for deriving final ones, they employed a secret statistical method to “predict” final performance. twitter.com/maria_axente/s…
