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 ...

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.

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 ...