{"id":3644,"date":"2016-09-29T17:11:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T17:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/These-scientists-are-so-precious"},"modified":"2016-09-29T17:11:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T17:11:54","slug":"these-scientists-are-so-precious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/09\/29\/these-scientists-are-so-precious\/","title":{"rendered":"These scientists are so precious:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These scientists are so precious: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;One might have hoped that the Google News embedding would exhibit little gender bias because many of its authors are professional journalists,\u201d they say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aha. <em>Ahahaha<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ahem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This post could also have gone in my SFF Thought Starters collection. There&#8217;s a great story in the <em>Futuristica<\/em> anthology about an AI cop that&#8217;s shooting young black men because it&#8217;s been trained to assess threats based on a corpus of previous police interactions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Originally shared by Winchell Chung<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And how the MIT researchers used a mathematical transform to remove the odious gender bias from the dataset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bias example: If you query the vector space embedding asking Man is to Programmer the way Woman is to X, the dataset will respond &#8220;Homemaker&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/602025\/how-vector-space-mathematics-reveals-the-hidden-sexism-in-language\/<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        These scientists are so precious:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-3644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity-and-representation","tag-mike-reeves-mcmillan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}