A source has provided another data set, this time following the smartphones of thousands of Trump supporters, rioters and passers-by in Washington, D.C., on January 6, as Donald Trump's political rally turned into a violent insurrection. At least five people died because of the riot at the Capitol. Key to bringing the mob to justice has been the event's digital detritus: location data, geotagged photos, facial recognition, surveillance cameras and crowdsourcing.
That first week shooting was literally a kinda preschool. I've never had any job where so many - of the finest professionals in the world at what they do - would show up on a given day and, honest to God, they didn't have it right what's happening in that scene. That's no slur, no call on anybody, it's just that complicated and that different from movies that came before.
— Nilo Otero, First Assistant Director, Tenet
Despite all the talk of people leaving the Bay Area during the pandemic, only a small fraction of residents have left the state, suggesting that reports of an exodus have been exaggerated, according to a Chronicle analysis of United States Postal Service data.
"I think of it as the Ring doorbell of [Automated License Plate Recognition]," Sergeant JT Maultsby from the Raleigh Police Department wrote in one July 2019 email to colleagues.
Oh, please no.
As every senior engineer will tell you, the longer your career, the more you understand that technology is rarely the "hard part." People, processes, working within teams, prioritizing and sequencing work, are what will trip you up.
Eco-Baby, TrailBuddy, Quility and TapeKing aren't exactly household names, but they're working on it. Their products are among the most popular in their categories on Amazon, accounting for millions of dollars in yearly sales.
They're also owned and operated by a single company called Thrasio, which recently raised $750 million in financing. It's just one among dozens of firms snapping up successful Amazon brands for millions of dollars.
Today's announcement between Intel, Microsoft, and DARPA, is a program designed around keeping information safe and encrypted, but still using that data to build better models or provide better statistical analysis without disclosing the actual data. It's called Fully Homomorphic Encryption, but it is so computationally intense that the concept is almost useless in practice. This program between the three companies is a driver to provide IP and silicon to accelerate the compute, enabling a more secure environment for collaborative data analysis.
Everything [Facebook] does and chooses not to do flows from a single motivation: Zuckerberg's relentless desire for growth. Quiñonero's AI expertise supercharged that growth. His team got pigeonholed into targeting AI bias, as I learned in my reporting, because preventing such bias helps the company avoid proposed regulation that might, if passed, hamper that growth. Facebook leadership has also repeatedly weakened or halted many initiatives meant to clean up misinformation on the platform because doing so would undermine that growth.
In other words, the Responsible AI team's work — whatever its merits on the specific problem of tackling AI bias — is essentially irrelevant to fixing the bigger problems of misinformation, extremism, and political polarization. And it's all of us who pay the price.
At its most benign, purity culture put unnecessary burdens on young men and (especially) young women. In its more harmful manifestations, however, it has enabled abuse, and at the extreme edge the male demand that women save them from their own sin can lead to murderous rage.
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The problem with purity culture is not Christianity. The problem is that its extremes are not Christian at all.