Cathy O'Neil

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I'm interested in algorithmic accountability, civil disagreement, and the social mechanism of shame. Algorithmic auditor at ORCAA.

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    17 hours ago

    The has been disastrous, but two good things can emerge: one is the increasing awareness of the injustices of automation and algorithmic decision-making in welfare decisions

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    Aug 19

    8/19/2020: The average lag from date of death to date reported for the 174 COVID-19 deaths Florida reported today is 10.4 days. The 7-day average is 11.0 days, up from ~5 days a few weeks ago.

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  3. Aug 19

    In my newest Bloomberg column, I make the case that the disastrous public school reopening plans are deliberately so:

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    Aug 18

    An honest book by Andrew Cuomo explaining the early, deadly mistakes he made dealing with the coronavirus, how he changed course and earned the public’s trust while driving case numbers down would be interesting. He obviously isn’t going to write that book.

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    Aug 18

    Fauci seems to have forgotten to do a back of envelope calculation, my latest blog:

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    Aug 17

    If you don’t quite get the joke, you should read Weapons of Math Destruction by

    People weren’t able to drive during lockdown so I’ve written an algorithm to send speeding tickets to random drivers based on historic speeding records in their area.
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    Aug 16

    Weird. They’re not chanting fairness, accountability, or transparency.

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    chants of “fuck the algorithm” as a speaker talks of losing her place at medical school because she was downgraded.
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    Aug 16

    students and families are angry that the algorithm used to assign grades (in lieu of exams which were cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic) has disproportionately affected students from working class and disadvantaged backgrounds.

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  9. Aug 14

    Florida COVID-19 death reporting lag time has doubled in the past few weeks.

    8/14/2020: The average lag from date of death to date reported for the 228 COVID-19 deaths Florida reported today is 10.7 days. The 7-day average is 10.6 days, up from ~5 days a few weeks ago.
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    Aug 11

    Congress ended the $600/week unemployment checks because "we can't afford it." It cost $250 billion. The covid bailout sent $174 billion to the rich. The 2017 tax cuts gave $1 trillion to the rich. We can afford whatever we want. It's about priorities

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  11. Aug 11

    When Trump said that more testing was bad because it meant more cases, I took him seriously. He has no recognizable model for the world. My newest Bloomberg column:

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    Aug 9

    This library ad is a triumph

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    Aug 9

    MARCH: Teachers are going above and beyond. APRIL: Teachers are heroes and deserve our support. MAY: Teachers should be millionaires. JUNE: We need to cut school budgets. JULY: Teachers need to go back to school. AUGUST: Teachers are selfish and don’t care.

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    Aug 8

    The impulse to verify digital identity will only normalize and strengthen authoritarian rule, especially as we incorporate new technologies during the pandemic. What we call a “feature” of technology today will tomorrow be a weapon wielded against a free and open society.

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    Aug 9

    Sixty years ago this week, on August 12, 1960, published what would become his best-selling book of all time. Written as the result of a $50 bet between Seuss and his publisher Bennett Cerf, it has since sold more than 8 million copies. The book? GREEN EGGS AND HAM. /1

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    Aug 8

    8/8/2020: The average lag from date of death to date reported for the 182 COVID-19 deaths Florida reported today was 10.7 days. The 7-day average is 7.6 days, up from about 5 days a month ago.

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    Aug 8

    8/8/2020: This shows the additional COVID-19 deaths that Florida reported each of the last two weeks including the 182 reported today.

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    Aug 9

    (6) So the drop is likely due to dropping daily Test Results. Further the problem may have started distorting the Confirmed Case curve 5w ago. So is someone purposefully trying to "Slow the testing down", or is the laboratory accumulating backlog? Let's look for evidence.

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    Aug 8

    CDC: Nationwide, 200,700 more people have died than usual from March 15 to July 25. That number is 54,000 higher than the official count of coronavirus deaths for that period.

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