Sofia Olhede
@SOlhede
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Data scientist & mathematician; interested in data and policy as well as statistical theory
Lausanne, Switzerland
Joined June 2019
Rules on Facial Rec from Massachusetts
nytimes.com
Massachusetts is one of the first states to put legislative guardrails around the use of facial recognition technology in criminal investigations.
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Automatic decision making perhaps more spread than we realised.
theguardian.com
Tools used widely to inform decisions on everything from housing to school places despite concerns over accuracy
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OK, algorithms for coughing classification.
weforum.org
The technology accurately identified 98.5% of coughs from people who were confirmed to have COVID-19 - and 100% of coughs from asymptomatics.
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Now this is a very disturbing practice
wired.com
A formula for assessing the gravity of kidney disease is one of many that is adjusted for race. The practice can exacerbate health disparities.
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Followed by whooa 2. Would I like a drone filming inside my home? I love tech, and tech solutions, thanks but no thanks. :).
nytimes.com
On social media, people had some concerns about the Ring Always Home Cam. To put it mildly.
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Break up Big Tech? House committee says yes.
politico.com
In major report, Democrats urge new rules to block major mergers and force breakups of industry giants.
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RT @RoyalStatSoc: Member of our Covid-19 task force, Professor Sheila Bird in @bmj_latest on how the issues with England's Test and Trace….
blogs.bmj.com
Failures in the design and evaluation of England’s Test and Trace programme could be resolved if we collect some core data, says Sheila Bird On 23 July 2020, the Royal [...]More...
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For those who have been missing my .@signmagazine. columns on recent societal issues associated with algos, there is a new one out : again joint with .@PurdueScience. dean Patrick Wolfe and now for the first time with a .@EPFL_en. address. Please enjoy!.
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unsurprisingly, it seems to be all about the data :)
ft.com
Geeks piled in when the pandemic broke but great promise has not been fulfilled
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Listening to the Ellis launch (which has an EPFL unit @EPFL_ELLIS_unit ). Nice to see excellence and breadth of ML research across Europe.
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So on another note; new standards for AI in clinical trials have just been published interesting. .
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OK, apart from views on algorithms and ethics, I try to be totally apolitical. But this one kind of matters a great deal. Whenever people talk about corona say, they always say there is hope because of research. Protect the ERC in the EU budget via @Change.
change.org
Protect independent research in the EU budget
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Time flies @PurdueScience Patrick Wolfe and I edited a special issue on #AlgorithmsInSociety two years ago and this has now gone to Open Access at Recommend checking out several of the papers from @mireillemoret @HetanShah @DanMercea and many others.
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RT @BayesianBella: Only 6% of all profs in maths in the UK are female, but 40% of all maths undergraduates are. I have co-founded the Pisco….
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Facial recognition; future does not seem to bright
theguardian.com
The force says it has discontinued using the service and the technology was deemed unsuitable
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