Re:The NSA’s machine learning algorithm may be killing thous...
by marcosdumay on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @08:25AM
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How many terrorists are there to put on the List?
For something around a ten of thousand people, at a minimum 80% of them will be innocent, just by sheer lack of actual terrorists to fill that many slots. And that's assuming a perfect fitting algorithm, with absolutely no false positives.
For something around a ten of thousand people, at a minimum 80% of them will be innocent, just by sheer lack of actual terrorists to fill that many slots. And that's assuming a perfect fitting algorithm, with absolutely no false positives.