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recent bookmarks from jm'Mathwashing,' Facebook and the zeitgeist of data worship2017-04-20T20:31:18+00:00
https://technical.ly/brooklyn/2016/06/08/fred-benenson-mathwashing-facebook-data-worship/
jmFred Benenson: Mathwashing can be thought of using math terms (algorithm, model, etc.) to paper over a more subjective reality. For example, a lot of people believed Facebook was using an unbiased algorithm to determine its trending topics, even if Facebook had previously admitted that humans were involved in the process.
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