Re:Shirley Cards
by civilized on Monday November 15, 2021 @08:11AM
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This is a really neat little article.
To make something "just work", you have to make technical decisions for the user. To make those decisions you need assumptions. It's a lot of work to make assumptions that work for every user, so a lot of times people focus on making them work for the "target market": those who we feel will most effectively sustain the product, who tend to be those we're most familiar with, or those with the most social privilege or economic clout. But we shouldn't stop there.
All of this was true 100 years ago when Kodak was designing cameras, and it's true today as we build machine learning models.
To make something "just work", you have to make technical decisions for the user. To make those decisions you need assumptions. It's a lot of work to make assumptions that work for every user, so a lot of times people focus on making them work for the "target market": those who we feel will most effectively sustain the product, who tend to be those we're most familiar with, or those with the most social privilege or economic clout. But we shouldn't stop there.
All of this was true 100 years ago when Kodak was designing cameras, and it's true today as we build machine learning models.