Category: Feminism
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Gender Shades
Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification Article Review The paper written by Joy Buolamwini and Timnit Gebru analyses the accuracy of commercial face-based gender classification systems, with a focus on intersections of race and gender. The study evaluated 3 commercial gender classification algorithms by IBM, Microsoft, and Face++ with a dataset that the researchers previously tagged manually.…
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An unknown body
During a Saturday afternoon of beers with a friend, I do not remember exactly how the subject came up. I said, “Science is not objective, it has never been” and he, looking at me with his jaw on the floor, asked me “how dare you to say that? You are an engineer”. I understand the…