but the airline insists that it doesn’t employ a family-splitting algorithm. Ryanair says if a person doesn’t pay for their seat assignment, they are “randomly” assigned, which may result ...

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 ...

Here we study random K-satisfiability problems ... in correcting errors made during the partial assignment of variables and this allows the BSP algorithm to reach solutions at large α values.

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 ...

We simulated savings from replacing random assignment with an “intelligent assignment” algorithm that would assign beneficiaries to the least expensive plan in 2010 based on their drug usage ...

Howell's 11-page decision largely agreed with the Justice Department in holding that random assignment of judges avoids any perception of favoritism. She ruled that the cases don't "involve common ...