Cool things

[brainwane]

Max Gladstone: "What happens when it’s so difficult to understand the people we live beside—or the people we love—that we can’t help them? That we don’t even know how to help each other?"

These awesome photos of Sloane Stephens!

Some useful information on the General Data Protection Regulation which will affect many of us starting May 2018.

"ProPublica would like to hear from people who have expertise in some facet of the health insurance industry." And then they will do investigative journalism on it!!

Upcoming New York City Council bill on algorithmic transparency:

g. Each agency that uses, for the purposes of targeting services to persons, imposing penalties upon persons or policing, an algorithm or any other method of automated processing system of data shall:

1. Publish on such agency’s website, the source code of such system; and

2. Permit a user to (i) submit data into such system for self-testing and (ii) receive the results of having such data processed by such system.

(If Legistar's RSS feeds work, nyc_algo_bill_feed should let you track further actions on it.)

Comments

[lilacsigil]

The bill on algorithmic transparency is very much needed!

[brainwane]

It is! Although I've recently heard that, because of its placement within an open data law that already has a cut-out for trade secrets, there's a loophole that we ought to try to close in the actual legislation.

That photo of Sloane

[jesse_the_k]

...with her mom is so sweet.

Re: That photo of Sloane

[brainwane]

:D