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Re:The NSA’s machine learning algorithm may be killing thous... by pc86 on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @10:12AM (#11110291)
I do not think you completely understood the article.
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Re:The NSA’s machine learning algorithm may be killing thous... by jndsn402 on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @10:31AM (#11110449)
The models as described in the article do seem to have glaring flaws. However, the article did not show that anyone has been killed based on the models alone.
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Re:The NSA’s machine learning algorithm may be killing thous... by eli_gottlieb on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @10:15AM (#11110314)
I'm pretty sure I did. Random Decision Forest with no regularization, no probabilistic accounting for the base rate of the target class, and with the test and train sets mixed rather than performing proper cross-validation. They've almost definitely overfit, and almost definitely killed someone who wasn't actually a terrorist.
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