How Los Angeles would look without carceral architecture
Poet Christopher Soto unpacks how the history of policing has shaped and scarred the urban fabric of Los Angeles.
Source: latimes.com
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Crime Prediction Software Promised to Be Free of Biases. New Data Shows It Perpetuates Them
Millions of crime predictions left on an unsecured server show PredPol mostly avoided Whiter neighborhoods, targeted Black and Latino neighborhoods.
Source: governing.com
A level results: Why algorithms aren't making the grade
BBC Science Focus Magazine When the UK government decided to cancel school exams due to the coronavirus pandemic, they gave examination regulators Ofqual a challenge: allocate grades to students anyway, and make sure the grades given out this year are equivalent in standard to previous years. Ofqual’s solution was to create an algorithm – a computer program designed to predict what grades the students would have received if they had taken exams. Advertisement Unfortunately, when the compute...
Source: sciencefocus.com