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> Any sufficiently complex programming project will end up reflecting some assumptions and biases on the behalf of the programmer. As more programmers contribute to a project, it won't reflect an individual's biases, but will still reflect those programmers as a group.

Can you break this down more? It doesn't make sense to me. If you're writing a machine learning application to take a dataset and match future inputs to past results I don't see how these biases can sneak into the program.

Unless the programmers are changing the datasets then I don't see how this makes sense.

parent gravypod 9 years ago

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