with @zoom_us 's new video background feature, i can stay engaged and nodding thoughtfully, even when i'm not even in the room -- this is the kind of innovation we need!
once I yelled to a man in the road, “hey man, watch out for that bus, it’s gonna hit you!” he moved out of the way, and the bus drove on by. a bit later he was like, “wow, man, you sure were wrong about that bus.”
Why were experts wrong when they said U.S. hospitals would be overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients? Doctors and hospital officials share their perspectives. propub.li/3fZrwJn
they do this for the same reason they ask you for your birthday 800 times -- it's annoying, but evidence is that if you want to avoid missing a rare event (messing up who someone is, missing a trafficked child), gotta make it routine
maybe you know that and are just trolling.
I'm helping to start an Accessibility+ML Research group at Apple, and we're hiring!
We're looking for full-time PhDs & engineers, and interns, looking to innovate in Machine Learning solutions to really hard, interesting, and impactful #a11y problems!
Contact me & RT! thx :)
some things that seem worth writing down…
- all data are biased
- all algorithms are biased
- things can exist that we don't know how to measure
- important things can exist that we don't know we need to measure
- (add your own as a reply)
One of many things I hate about election season is the constant reminder that both our democracy and our perception of what democracy is about is constant quantization errors and arbitrary lines on a map.
Anytime we click “I have read and agree to these terms and conditions” we are lying. Someone needs to look out for what is happening to our data. @ddpforall#prop24@caprivacyorg
“There is a myth that non-disabled people are independent and disabled people are dependent. We are all interdependent. Many of you like drinking coffee, very few of you grow your own beans” … from a great opening keynote at #assets2022 by @HabenGirma
everyone should study HCI, if for no other reason than you'll have both the vocabulary and underlying theory to explain why that mistake you made using a computer was actually the computer's fault.
check out this picture from an @Airbnb I recently stayed at in Seattle -- notice anything concerning?
if you manage to spot it, that's great, because Airbnb considers this photo to be proper disclosure… 1/n