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Assassination is a Leaky Abstraction (coldwaters.substack.com)
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[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

This one also a bit chilling:

A data scientist can tell most of someone’s life story given their zip code, and we try not to think too hard about why that’s always the most predictive feature in the model.