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		graycat on Feb 16, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The NSA’s machine learning algorithm may be killin... > If it is a false positive, probably they just ignore it. And how do they know it's a false positive? Indeed, if they really knew that, then they would have some more training data.

_r5wf on Feb 16, 2016 [–]

I am not defending peoples lousy/callous decision processes for fatal actions. But telling that bad machine learning algorithms are responsible for killings is just stupid.

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