Complexity of Matrix Computations Seminar
Crunching the Matrix
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Rediet Abebe: towards an algorithmic justice
Humane algorithms for the time of coronavirus
Read More Rediet Abebe: towards an algorithmic justiceSurveillance Capitalism and the working data scientist
A data scientist reviews Shoshana Luboff’s book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Read More Surveillance Capitalism and the working data scientistChristo Wilson Discusses the Ethics of Online Behavioral Experiments
If your company runs A/B tests involving it’s user community, this talk is a must see. Christo Wilson at Northeastern University discusses an analysis his lab ran on how companies use the Optimizely platform to conduct online experiments. Although these experiments tend to mostly be innocuous, there’s a tremendous need for transparency and mechanisms for […]
Read More Christo Wilson Discusses the Ethics of Online Behavioral ExperimentsGödel, Incompleteness and Privacy
Sometimes an unsolvable problem is a good thing.
Read More Gödel, Incompleteness and PrivacyGödel, Incompletness, and AI
Gödel has something to say about A.I.
Read More Gödel, Incompletness, and AIThe city of Atlanta doesn’t use facial recognition — so why does Delta Airlines?
Opt out of facial recognition
Read More The city of Atlanta doesn’t use facial recognition — so why does Delta Airlines?San Francisco passes facial recognition ordinance
San Francisco recently passed an ordinance controlling the use of facial recognition in the city. The ordinance was in large part thanks to the pioneering research of Joy Buolamwini. The argument against the technology is twofold: first, the technology is highly invasive in public spaces and may constitute a direct threat to basic (US) constitutional […]
Read More San Francisco passes facial recognition ordinanceYou should record technical talks!
A few days ago I attended the talk “Sparsity, oracles and inference in high-dimensional statistics” by Sara van der Geer who is visiting Georgia Tech. The talk is described here. But I didn’t record the talk! I had a working iPhone! I only have an after thought photo of the white board that remained after […]
Read More You should record technical talks!The science of data science
The Foundations of Data Science Boot Camp given last week (August 27 – 31) at the Simons Institute in Berkeley explored how pure mathematics and theoretical computer science are providing actionable insights that the working data scientist can use — or at least ponder. I found the talk below by Ravi Kannan useful in pointing out how dimensionality reduction […]
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