Notices by Arthur Charpentier ⏚ (freakonometrics@mastodon.social), page 2

@Grandasse_ yes, Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker (https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/governor-pritzker-northwestern-university-steve-carell/3159853/)

idiot detection system...

Reinforcement learning (Q*), exploration / exploitation

“The most recent data shows that the top 1% now owns 31.4% of American wealth, more than that of the entire bottom 90%." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/opinion/why-voters-arent-buying-bidens-boasts-about-bidenomics.html

"It's not just you. LinkedIn has gotten really weird" https://www.businessinsider.com/how-linkedin-got-weird-work-life-blurred-lines-of-oversharing-2023-9 "Personal sharing on LinkedIn is booming, people who use the platform say, because of tidal shifts in both social norms and the social-media marketplace"

"The fallacy of plastic cleanup technology" https://www.cell.com/one-earth/pdf/S2590-3322(23)00497-9.pdf by @MBergmann

"A Short History of Traffic Engineering - a cycling advocacy pamphlet from Copenhagenize" https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:A_Short_History_of_Traffic_Engineering.png (mentionnée par https://dumas.ccsd.cnrs.fr/dumas-01897488/document)

First, overconfidence tended to grow faster than knowledge, reaching its peak at intermediate levels of knowledge. Second, respondents with intermediate knowledge and high confidence also displayed the least positive attitudes towards science. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01677-8 "This combination of overconfidence and negative attitudes towards science is dangerous, as it can lead to the dissemination of false information and conspiracy theories, in both cases with great confidence."

Just what part of "easier and more convenient" don't you get ?

https://www.ft.com/banx Jeremy Banks (Banx)

spying

"In every reported case where police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been Black" https://www.businessinsider.com/in-every-reported-false-arrests-based-on-facial-recognition-that-person-has-been-black-2023-8