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In a continuing study on the effects of machine learning (ML) on public conversation, Twitter has confirmed that its algorithms amplify right-leaning political content."In six out of seven countries - all but Germany - tweets posted by ...
The new research is based on tweets of elected officials of House of Commons members in Canada, the French National Assembly, the German Bundestag, House of Representatives in Japan, Congress of Deputies of Spain, House of Commons in the UK, and official and personal accounts of House of Representatives and Senate members in the US, as well as news outlets, from April 1 to August 15, 2020.
Editor for Neuroscience and Computer Science Hallie Stebbins has acquired Patterns, Predictions, and Actions a graduate-level introductory machine learning textbook by Moritz Hardt and Benjamin Recht. Patterns, Predictions, and Actions offers students a broad perspective, deeply informed by theory, on the field of machine learning. The authors argue that the pattern classification research of the 1960s remains relevant for recent advances in machine learning. The book’s early chapters extend the fundamentals of pattern classification with recent developments in optimization and generaliza...