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posted by Fnord666 on Monday July 17 2017, @03:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the swear-on-a-stack-of-K&Rs dept.

At The Guardian, Cathy O'Neil writes about why algorithms can be wrong. She classifies the reasons into four categories on a spectrum ranging from unintential errors to outright malfeasance. As algorithms now make a large portion of the decisions affecting our lives, scrutiny is ever more important and she provides multiple examples in each category of their impact.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @10:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @10:05PM (#540605)

    Sorry not that it in general includes parents , and it should include people that have not grown up broken

    FTFM