So the other day, according to someone named Ryan Saavedra, newly elected congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that algorithms are racist:https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1087627739861897216 Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claims that algorithms, which are driven by math, are racist-- Ryan Saavedra @RealSaavedra Ocasio-Cortez says a … [Read more...] about Racist Algorithms
It’s Not Your Damned House
God, I hate this argument:https://twitter.com/TomiLahren/status/1082843181593415680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1082843181593415680&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Freason.com%2Fblog%2F2019%2F01%2F09%2Fdid-donald-trump-jr-compare-immigrants-t "You lock your door because you want to know who’s coming into your home. It’s not because you hate the … [Read more...] about It’s Not Your Damned House
A Libertarian Meets the Honorverse
My list of reliably entertaining fiction authors has become too short, so I've been spending a lot of time lately poking through the Amazon Prime discount bin trying to find new authors to read. Lately, I'm looking for military sci-fi or space opera. After a batch of disappointing starts -- some books are free to read from Amazon for a reason -- I decided to check out a … [Read more...] about A Libertarian Meets the Honorverse
Model Justice — Stalled On the Learning Curve
The "Model Justice" series of posts (starting here) is chronicling my attempts to build a software model of certain aspects of the criminal justice system. As I explained in the most recent post, my first attempt at building a model ran into a dead end, so now I'm figuring out what to do for my next attempt.I've identified several possible ways the model could be improved, … [Read more...] about Model Justice — Stalled On the Learning Curve
How To Save Yourself From the New WordPress Editor
Oh my God, I ran automated updates on the blog Friday afternoon without realizing that it was also going to update Wordpress to version 5.0. So when I started to write a post that evening, I was met with this monstrosity:Wordpress has been threatening us with their new Gutenberg editor for months now, and I guess it's finally arrived, despite the fact that the trial … [Read more...] about How To Save Yourself From the New WordPress Editor