Algorithms · June 2017Gaffe level: Typo
Leaked Documents Showed Facebook's Hate-Speech Algorithm Was a Mess
Internal training documents showed Facebook's rules protected broad categories like white men but not subsets like black children. The moderation system was only as fair as the humans who wrote its rules.
Source: ProPublica
The Diabetes Patients Hacking Together Their Own Bionic Pancreas.
Frustrated by waiting, diabetes patients built their own DIY artificial pancreas systems, tuning them to their bodies. Patient ingenuity at its best: people refusing to sit still while the perfect product was still in a lab.
Source: Wired