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scholarship Enhance enhance: Using machine learning to recover lost detail from upscaled photos Cory Doctorow
happy mutants See in the Dark: a machine learning technique for producing astoundingly sharp photos in very low light Cory Doctorow
scholarship Thousands of prominent AI researchers tell Nature they won't have anything to do with its new paywalled journal Cory Doctorow
christ what an asshole Palantir has figured out how to make money by using algorithms to ascribe guilt to people, now they're looking for new customers Cory Doctorow
uk UK police train machine-learning model using Experian data that stereotypes people based on garden size, first names, and postal codes Cory Doctorow
happy mutants UC Berkeley offers its Foundations of Data Science course for free online Cory Doctorow
