Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/01/01/counting-the-dead.html
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There’s no witness you can kill to silence a machine-learning model.
Yes there is. If the model is developed by your own citizen, you can put him right in the ground. If they’re not a citizen, they’re “outside agitators.” Use ad-hominem attacks to discredit the research, hire some academics to express doubt, and rely on the press to ignore anything involving numbers.
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at least a 65 percent chance of harboring graves
That … doesn’t sound particularly compelling?
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Awesome. Let’s start with Iraq.
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You don’t need graves when you have big enough bombs.
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*It’s infinitely greater than 0%
*See also: why the press doesn’t like numbers
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random forests is not exactly rigorous statistics, but I still think it’s a worthy approach.
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