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sdsvsdgggggg

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    Comment #24340546

    Interesting - how does that come about? Do such students flock to that school?

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    Comment #24328969

    "a not-insignificant amount of the school is queer" In what way - many queer students?

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    Comment #24328964

    Same here, I think I just thought about thieves being dressed in black to hide themselves in the night.

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    Comment #24271616

    What irks me about it is that Amazon doesn't give me access to that data.

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    Comment #24268570

    Nothing indicates that it is specific to algorithmic facial recognition. Actual humans make mistakes identifying suspects all the time. At the very least, the article should addres…

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    Comment #24264788

    But then it can't possibly be the "people just believe computers" effect, because the article explicitly states the police realized the computer was wrong.

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    Comment #24264782

    Then people have to relearn, but it is not the fault of the algorithm. False identifications by humans happen a lot, too. I think it used to be an especially big issue for black pe…

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    Comment #24264760

    That's not the fault of the face recognition, though. And it would have happened in the same way if a human had misclassified the image. Do they propose nobody should ever look at …

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    Comment #24263126

    As if humans have never misidentified people or arrested the wrong person? I find these articles very silly. Maybe the photo on the drivers license was not good enough, so only in …

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    Comment #24189588

    How big of a cut do they have to pay on closed hardware consoles?