Tue.Feb 04, 2020

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Don’t forget to take your software delivery organization’s vital signs

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Have you ever noticed that when you go to the doctor—be it your primary care doctor, a dermatologist, or an orthopedist—they always start by measuring your vital signs? They’ll measure your weight, blood pressure, and temperature. Once a year, your doctor will send you to the lab for blood work. And in recent years GPs have also added a questionnaire on your emotional state. .

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POTS: protective optimization technologies

The Morning Paper

POTS: Protective optimization technologies , Kulynych, Overdorf et al., arXiv 2019. With thanks to @TedOnPrivacy for recommending this paper via Twitter. Last time out we looked at fairness in the context of machine learning systems, coming to the realisation that you can’t define ‘fair’ solely from the perspective of an algorithm and the data it is trained on.