Agile Vector posted:

meanwhile htc is working on bringing about the dickian future with the introduction of an early model mercer box

https://www.engadget.com/2018/10/09/can-jesus-save-virtual-reality-seven-miracles-htc-vive

prisoner of waffles posted:

hi potential for cyberpunk lomarftrocities: https://www.gao.gov/mobile/products/GAO-19-128

Chris Knight posted:

wait now there's multi cloud?!

prisoner of waffles posted:

hi potential for cyberpunk lomarftrocities: https://www.gao.gov/mobile/products/GAO-19-128

endlessmonotony posted:

Eh the mere concept of a Mercer Box is ridiculous - it assumes humans are capable of feeling empathy.

Agile Vector posted:

a fair association and also a grim reminder that we are in a weak sauce cyberpunk dystopia

quote:

Amazon has scrapped an automated recruiting tool after reportedly discovering that it didn�t like female candidates. The company tried to mechanize its talent searches by creating a computer program that gave applicants scores ranging from one to five stars, just like Amazon products. However, its models were trained to vet applicants by observing patterns in r�sum�s submitted to the company over a 10-year period�most came from men, so the system effectively taught itself that male candidates were preferable over women. It reportedly penalized r�sum�s that included the word �women�s,� and downgraded candidates from two unspecified women�s colleges. The company abandoned the project by the start of last year. Amazon declined to comment on
the recruiting engine.

Krankenstyle posted:

but it was supposed to be cool

The Claptain posted:

Amazon Ditches AI Recruiting Tool That �Didn�t Like Women�

Midjack posted:

looking forward to us uavs getting owned and resulting in a chrome-on-blue incident.

coining that term here folks.

prisoner of waffles posted:

can't get an ml algorithm to explain why it makes a decision

can't get an ml algorithm to treat any features that you feed it as neutral

prisoner of waffles posted:

i like it, but it seems like it should apply to when the system does a friendly fire while autonomous

what goes with "hacked and used against friendly target" ? "red all up in ya blue on blue"?

Kevin Mitnick P.E. posted:

im in ur drone killin ur d00dz

Kevin Mitnick P.E. posted:

im in ur drone killin ur d00dz

DerekSmartymans posted:

Hellfire missile hits Pentagon

Agile Vector posted:

just think, theres a govt lurker who follows all this chatter and knows us so well but can never participate

Agile Vector posted:

just think, theres a govt lurker who follows all this chatter and knows us so well but can never participate

quote:

The technique relies on links between distant relatives. “Think of your family like layers of an onion,” he says. Your closest relatives are parents, children and siblings. The next layer is first cousins, which you might have in higher numbers. Another layer and you reach second cousins, and so on until you could find yourself related to many third cousins you don’t know at all. “When you go to very distant relatives, chances of a link are much higher,” he says. These kinds of links were used earlier this year to identify a suspect in the case of the alleged Golden State Killer, who was connected to the crimes partially via the DNA of relatives in a genetic database.

Once police had genetic links to distant relatives, they could draw a large, complex family tree, possibly too large to analyze. But then they could exclude many of the linked individuals based on other data—where they live, their age, their sex and so forth, Erlich notes. Much of that information comes from widely shared family trees drawn by consumers. After pruning the data that way, a pool of, say, 850 relatives could be reduced to 15 who might plausibly be connected to the crimes in question.

Then police can start knocking on doors and doing the kind of investigation they do routinely. “It’s really only over the last year that the ability to use these public genealogical databases for identifying individuals became clear,” says Daniel MacArthur, group leader of Massachusetts General Hospital’s Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit. “The academic community didn’t appreciate how large these databases are and how readily they could be used to triangulate genetic identity.”

The second study showed police databases contain more genetic information than researchers had suspected. Forensic databases hold information on a handful of identifying markers called STRs. Consumer databases use a far more detailed panel of markers known as SNPs. Until recently there was thought to be no connection between the two. Now it is clear forensic databases contain some SNP information, says Bruce Weir, a professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington. “For law enforcement, this means if they can’t find a match” in their databases, “they can now seek a match in other databases,” he says. It also means they can track information on relatives, rather than merely matching individuals, he notes. “Practically, it’s an enormous advance.” This raises an important privacy issue, he adds. “Should I be worried that by uploading my data, I make my relatives subject to being found by law enforcement?” That might be acceptable if those relatives committed a crime. “But suppose they didn’t?”

Agile Vector posted:

just think, theres a govt lurker who follows all this chatter and knows us so well but can never participate

prisoner of waffles posted:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-identify-almost-anyone-in-a-consumer-gene-database/


hell yeah cross-database joins are loving powerful as gently caress

TimWinter posted:

Man, I need to check my 23 and me user agreement again. It would genuinely suck to incidentally rat out my awesome bank robbing fourth cousin twice removed that I've never met.

Agile Vector posted:

welcome to gattaca

Improbable Lobster posted:

don't give out dna for free and sure as hell don't pay for someone to take your dna

Improbable Lobster posted:

don't give out dna for free and sure as hell don't pay for someone to take your dna

Midjack posted:

pretty sure it goes something like:

-you gave us a dna sample
-gently caress you, you gave us a dna sample

prisoner of waffles posted:

Bruce Weir, a professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington. “For law enforcement, this means if they can’t find a match” in their databases, “they can now seek a match in other databases,” he says. It also means they can track information on relatives, rather than merely matching individuals, he notes. “Practically, it’s an enormous advance.” This raises an important privacy issue, he adds. “Should I be worried that by uploading my data, I make my relatives subject to being found by law enforcement?” That might be acceptable if those relatives committed a crime. “But suppose they didn’t?”

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

infernal machines posted:

white_people.html

quote:

Different tribes trade bottle caps with elaborate designs to represent them; this year, the cops also brought their own to hand out.

Trabandiumium posted:

do the cops have to dress like leather daddies