The full COMPAS algorithm uses 137 features to make its prediction. Dressel and Farid’s group of random humans only had seven: sex, age, criminal charge, degree of the crime, non-juvenile prior ...

the people behind it say they have big data and algorithms, and their software says the defendant is high-risk,” says Farid. “Now imagine I said: Hey, I asked 20 random people online if this ...

“So we got tons of complaints from users about it not being random. “Last year, we updated it with a new algorithm, that is intended to feel more random to a human.” The feeling that ...

Who should we listen to when deciding whether a criminal will reoffend: a sophisticated algorithm, or random people on the internet? Trick question – it turns out they both produce the same ...

Smith’s algorithm begins by stringing together a few words from an open-source dictionary and googling them. It grabs the resulting links in a random order, and saves them in a database for ...

The algorithm reflects how users perceive each other, not who they are Each profile that branches from Monster’s module spawns, inside their own People Also Viewed bar, another set of ...

What they have created is an algorithm which ensures that seemingly random numbers really are as random as they look. “We believe, and our paper proves, that in quantum experiments much more ...