Technical architect promoting human, sane, and pragmatic approaches in IT. (He/him). More likely these days at https://xitter.cf/t.co/MrOlFAI0jC
Turku / Åbo, Finland / Suomi
Joined May 2007
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I'n not on here very much these days, but you can try to find me at toot.cafe/@aaspnas in the future.
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Goodness highness! Nature has discovered causality nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
We should soon expect a flood of machine learning folks asking: What is it?
BTW, I didn't tell them, but the book I'm holding in the picture is the first printing (1763) of Bayes paper on Bayes Rule.
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A lot of organisations talk outside-in (vs inside-out), they aim to be #agile, #lean and customer centric.But the reality is that their systems are not designed outside-in because the primary controls are concerned with serving the hierarchy and meeting the budget. ~ @JohnWSeddon
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A buddy who's interested in end-to-end encryption (E2EE) but hasn't done one of these projects in the very messy place which is the real world happened to ask me this morning about pitfalls which might not be obvious. So here's a partial list in the hopes that it's helpful. 🧵
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“People’s opinions are mainly designed to make them feel comfortable; truth, for most people is a secondary consideration.” (Bertrand Russell)
Hence the need for: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3614…
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"The problem isn't any particular technology, but the use of technology to manipulate people, to concentrate power in a way that is so nuts and creepy that it becomes a threat to the survival of civilisation." — Jaron Lanier.
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This really does feel like it could only be a parody: "We recognise that including real people in research is important, so we're trying to find a way to do it without needing real people"
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It is beyond time for the ML community to drop this idea that ethical considerations are somehow at odds with "technical merit" and that ethical review is somehow hampering "scientific progress". (As. If.)
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ALT Screenshot from linked blog post, reading "Moving forward, it is crucial for the conference and the larger community to consider diverging international ethical standards, as reviewers raised concerns about how to equally and equitably address ethical standards for future conferences when laws, regulations, and ethics differ by country. The focus should continue to be placed on the technical merits with attention to ethical implications and impact, without unnecessarily burdening authors to follow rigid ethical protocols. It is therefore important to establish norms to guide and educate about potential ethical harms and dual uses, rather than to impose penalties on authors for their work in advancing technically relevant and important research."
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Calling all social science research anecdotal and claiming it doesn’t follow the scientific method is pretty strange and misinformed. It does have hypotheses, observations, and methods of control. 🤨
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“IBM actually tried to collect all of its songbooks in an apparent effort to deny that it had ever advocated group singing as part of its corporate socialization.” hbr.org/2002/03/the-anxiety-…
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Design can harm. Do you wonder if your product or service causes harm to people? There is a way to measure if a solution harms one or several thinking styles. Listen, see the patterns, track improvement, and make many solutions. Support people. bit.ly/3sR0FHQ
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"Blame the process, not the people.”
― W. Edwards Deming
#DevOps #DevOpsCommunity
Upvoted feedbackportal.microsoft.com… to enable more dynamic interaction models in Teams meetings like needed for Liberating Structures 1-2-4-All
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Very happy to share this essay, which is temporarily in front of the paywall. "We need to defend the analog world. If we let virtual reality proliferate without limits, #surveillance will be equally limitless. " #privacy @HertfordCollege @TORCHOxford @EthicsInAI @OxHumanities
Read "Digitization, Surveillance, Colonialism" in which @CarissaVeliz warns ominously that the threat of total social surveillance begins the moment anything is digitized libertiesjournal.com/article…
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I am pretty sure @courtneynash is on team @allspaw when it comes to the value (or lack thereof) of incident stats
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Potential Harms Caused by AI Systems:
1) Bias & discrimination
2) Denial of individual autonomic rights
3) Non-transparent, unexplainable or unjustifiable outcomes
4) Invasions of privacy
5) Unreliable, unsafe or poor quality outcomes
@carlaprvieira #LeadDevSanFrancisco
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Read "Digitization, Surveillance, Colonialism" in which @CarissaVeliz warns ominously that the threat of total social surveillance begins the moment anything is digitized libertiesjournal.com/article…
