List: Tech and class | Curated by Linda Margaret

Sep 30, 2024
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Tech and class
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Brain Labs
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Linda Margaret
Research Funding and its LimitsAuctioning off paltry public resources to those already flush with private wealth makes sense in our world, but it restricts us
Sep 29, 2024
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Sep 29, 2024
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Edtech: Student-Fed, Not Student-LedIs Edtech providing solutions or just feeding already well-fed institutional egos at the expense of learners?
Mar 15, 2024
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Mar 15, 2024
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Linda Margaret
We Don’t All Pay Our Debts‘Consensus isn’t just about agreement. It’s about changing things around.’ — David Graeber
Feb 16, 2024
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Feb 16, 2024
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Institutional agencyHaving worked with, if not the high and mighty, their mundane (Arendt might even say banal) middle managers, I am fascinated by the tension…
Feb 1, 2024
Feb 1, 2024
Linda Margaret
Doggone engineers….I’ve worked and screwed (with) enough engineers to know that Pavlov’s rule applies — they want the food to show up every time they push the…
Jan 25, 2024
Jan 25, 2024
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Towards more ‘fair’ AI: algorithmic intent in a disparate society — part 9Can ‘fair’ algorithms help address unfair policies offline? Part 9 of 9 posts because I need to move on and so do you. Thanks and…
Jan 23, 2024
Jan 23, 2024
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Towards more ‘fair’ AI: algorithmic intent in a disparate society. We learn from algorithms.Can ‘fair’ algorithms help address unfair policies offline? Part 8 of 9 (because I want to let this go for a little bit as I’m sure you do)
Jan 22, 2024
Jan 22, 2024
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Towards more ‘fair’ AI: algorithmic intent in a disparate society. ‘Evolution’ of algorithms.Can ‘fair’ algorithms help address unfair policies offline? Part 7 of 9 (because this must end…)
Jan 21, 2024
Jan 21, 2024
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Towards more ‘fair’ AI: algorithmic intent in a disparate society. Axiomatic Algorithms.Can ‘fair’ algorithms help address unfair policies offline? Part 6 of 9.
Jan 20, 2024
Jan 20, 2024
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Towards more ‘fair’ AI: algorithmic intent in a disparate society. Susceptible laws and people.Can ‘fair’ algorithms help address unfair policies offline? Part 5 of 9 (I’m pretty sure.)
Jan 19, 2024
Jan 19, 2024
Linda Margaret
Towards more ‘fair’ AI: algorithmic intent in a disparate society. Context is critical.Can ‘fair’ algorithms help address unfair policies offline? Part 4 of 9 (I think…)
Jan 18, 2024
Jan 18, 2024
Linda Margaret
Towards more ‘fair’ AI: algorithmic intent in a disparate society. EU regulations.Can ‘fair’ algorithms help address unfair policies offline? Part 1 of 9 posts on optimized ‘fairness’ starting with Europe’s new act.
Jan 15, 2024
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Jan 15, 2024
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‘We tell ourselves stories in order to live.’The title quote comes from a Joan Didion essay that mocks its premise.
Nov 8, 2023
Nov 8, 2023
Linda Margaret
Pareto principlesI tend to suspect any meritocracy is a long con.
Aug 6, 2023
Aug 6, 2023
Linda Margaret
The HBO Silicon Valley series predicted a lot of data problemsData fuels the central tension in the brilliant (if slightly dated) HBO series Silicon Valley.
Apr 11, 2023
Apr 11, 2023
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Gender equality in higher ed?I have a former colleague who lives in a country where no Ph.D. degree is offered.
Mar 11, 2023
Mar 11, 2023
Linda Margaret
The tale of the nobles and the minions and the noble minions, etc.Once upon a time and long ago, information was scarce and networks were lean.
Jun 30, 2017
Jun 30, 2017