New on LLRX – Even When Big Data Favors Your Clients, Doesn’t
Mean You’ll Sleep at Night
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on
Via LLRX.com – Even When Big Data Favors Your Clients,
Doesn’t Mean You’ll Sleep at Night: Attorney Carolyn
Elefant discusses what she has learned from her recent experience with
data-driven decision making – specifically, although data improves the accuracy
of predictions, it doesn’t remove all risk.
Quasi-vigilante? Name
someone you think might have been there?
With a little tech (Phones that record video, video editors that can
isolate a face, facial recognition) this could become a popular game. Looks like it’s back to those pointy hood for
these people.
Yes, You're Racist: Twitter user names Virginia protesters
The internet gave white nationalists a platform to
organize their Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. It's also
giving counter-protesters a way to strip them of their anonymity.
A Twitter account called Yes, You're Racist has been naming and shaming
white supremacists who over the weekend protested a decision by Charlottesville
to remove a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee.
The user of the account on Saturday asked followers, who currently
total more than 240,000, to send names and social media profiles of anyone they
recognized at the protests. The site has
identified at least nine protesters so far.
… The rapid use of
Twitter to crowdsource the identification of rally participants in real time
marks a new use of the platform.
Twitter has strict rules about
disclosing personal information, such as intimate photos, Social Security
numbers and financial information. Identifying individuals from photographs taken in
public settings, such as the rally, doesn't appear to violate those rules.
I haven’t seen much evidence of this.
Another view on the Google book scanning project
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What Happened to Google’s Effort to Scan Millions of University
Library Books?: “…many librarians and scholars see the legacy of the
project differently. In fact, academics
now regularly tap into the reservoir of digitized material that Google helped
create, using it as a dataset they can query, even if they can’t consume full
texts. It’s a pillar of the humanities’
growing engagement with Big Data…. That
rich resource has been put to several good uses. Through the HathiTrust Research
Center, scholars can tap into the Google Books corpus and conduct
computational analysis—looking for patterns in large amounts of text, for
instance—without breaching copyright. And
print-disabled users can use assistive technologies to read scanned books that
might otherwise be difficult if not impossible to find in accessible formats…”
Marketing gone to the dogs. I’m guessing they mean “wet dog” smell?
Celebrate National Dog Day with 'new dog smell' air
fresheners
Now you can have your car smell like your best friend or
fur baby. For National Dog Day on August
26 -- yes, that's a real thing and should be a federally recognized holiday --
you'll be able to claim a free "new dog smell" air freshener from
Autotrader.
It might seem like a cheap gimmick to get readers to click
on a site, but it's for a good cause. For every doge-smelling air freshener,
Autotrader will donate to Adopt-A-Pet.com. You'll be able to claim your air freshener and
contribute to the cause at this link starting on August 24.
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