the push to make machine learning accessible is gonna ruin us all like maybe this is elitist idk but ml even more than regular stats sits at this intersection of “is actually fairly complex but produces simple results” and giving ppl tools w/o understanding is just irresponsible
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the thing that makes ml dangerous is it’s a tool used to shape people’s understanding of the world. teach distributed systems or like, programming languages to whoever you want they’re not gonna use it to twist the fabric of reality
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mainstream media is complicit in this too like. put a headline up stating this guy’s results as “hard data” and then giving him an entire unchecked interview to spew bullshit are you kidding mehttps://www.salon.com/2020/03/09/there-is-hard-data-that-shows-bernie-bros-are-a-myth/ …
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He also figures out which candidate you support by which ones you follow - a deeply flawed prior IMO. This whole article could be a case study of what not to do in stats
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it’s so embarrassing top to bottom and it’s getting shared by senior bernie advisors with enormous audiences i hate it so much lol
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