Re:How Netflix's algorithm exposes technology's racial bias.
by kodis on Monday February 29, 2016 @07:43PM
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Exactly right, but that wouldn't result in as controversial a headline.
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Re:How Netflix's algorithm exposes technology's racial bias.
by Turing_Machine on Monday February 29, 2016 @11:17PM
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Yup. When I was reading the Horatio Hornblower books a while back, and Amazon suddenly started recommending books by Patrick O'Brian and Dudley Pope, I didn't arrive at the conclusion that Amazon's algorithm was "racist" with respect to 19th Century British naval culture.